ROBERTO LOVATO
“The Gentrification of Consciousness,” page 22
Your essay on the psychedelic renaissance is also a meditation on San Francisco’s Mission district. What is the importance of this setting?
The neighborhood’s storied past provides a textbook example of how entire communities are erased from physical space. Those of us who experienced the magical Mission consciousness moment of the ’60s and ’70s know that a similar erasure is taking place in
