Sitting Under A Tree, June 18, 2019

This week I went to Yangon in Myanmar and had a bar conversation with a private security contractor about the horrific conflicts in the North of that country. I had coffee in seemingly the country's only speciality coffee shop, and marveled at the symbolic beginning of globalisation and coffee culture in this isolated city. Then I came to Singapore, where the city is awasg with speciality coffee and Western culture to such an extent that the local coffee traditions are quickly being pushed out. I visited a cafe that used to be a front for illegal gambling but has had to abandon its former premises of almost 100 years because gentrification. Gentrification that I, and this podcast, are absolutely a part of. Makes ya think, I guess. Not laugh, really. But think, sure.