Living somewhere means stewardship. Whether a city, a condo complex, or a neighborhood park, you want to see people treat it well, maybe even improve it. All the better if you do it yourself.

So it's pretty upsetting when I see kids dropping Burger King bags, or grown adults going 40mph down residential streets, in Oakland. I see both practically every day. Oakland sees itself as some real-world Wakanda —"Oakanda"—people from Wakanda wouldn't trash their city. We shouldn't either.

Try riding the BART. Personal experience: I had a knife pulled on me in 2014. In 2017, someone tried to rip my laptop out of my hands and bolt (I held on). I can't remember the last time I rode from Oakland to San Francisco without getting a "dance show", where someone brings amplified sound equipment onto the train and blasts the entire car with music.

I hate BART dance shows. They're obnoxious and people can get hurt.

But it got me thinking. Art, as a whole, is a pretty rebellious enterprise. A surprising amount of art was highly controversial when presented. I don't think BART should tolerate dance shows. But it bothers me more than a little that I might be killing someone's ambition to be a performer.