Paradox of San Francisco

Rebecca Solnit, in her essay entitled "The Sinews of War Are Boundless Money and the Brains of War are in The Bay Area," outlines the conservative aspects of a city celebrated for its liberalism. Solnit highlights various military complexes, such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, United Defense, and RoboteX, all of which are private contractors who have developed military technology. All of these companies are located south of the SF bay, embedded in the Santa Clara area. Other military sites are interspersed throughout the city.
This conservative strain cannot be called an encroachment on the liberal values of the Franciscan city. The young wealthy techie culture of Silicon Valley is a recent development in San Fran history, but the military culture dates as far back as the 1860's. In Presidio there were military encampments for the Spanish and Mexicans, and SF was a deployment zone for the Second World War.
 I was curious to see where the liberal, organic, bohemian, beat, what-have-you culture was centered around, and the Zen Buddhist centers (another map in the Solnit book) are heavily organized around the center of the city, near the Golden Gate bridge. Queer spaces are near Market street, close to the Bridge as well. The military and conservative wing of the city, with a handful of exceptions, is organized in the outskirts of the city.
The conflicting images of the military industrial complex and the beat anti-war liberals brought to mind several of Allen Ginsberg's poems centered around the Bay area. He notes a juxtaposition between the industrial and natural. In In the back of the real, Ginsberg talks about a yellow flower that is a "flower of industry." The natural shows through the industrial, and Ginsberg celebrates this. This same metaphor is found in Sunflower Sutra, where Ginsberg contrasts our internal beauty with the rough exterior of the "bleak dusty imageless locomotive." Contextualizing Ginsberg's poem's within the framework of the left/right geographic paradigm presents an interesting look at the paradoxes of San Francisco.