The postwar generation could buy homes, as well as furniture, cars, or trips, and pay for them on anticipated income. From the point of view of the prior era, this was the height of irresponsibility and even immorality. From the standpoint of the well-to-do, suburbia was poorly constructed housing without culture or a soul. The urbanites looked at the suburbs as they had been looked at by small-town America. Small-town America saw the urbanites as the essence of irresponsibility. New social forms are always held in contempt by those in previous eras. But the technocrats, who were created along
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