“What distinguishes the comfortable young men of today from the uncomfortable young men of the last hundred years…is that for once the younger generation is not in revolt against anything…We don’t want to rebel against our elders.94 The organizations that these young people joined offered predictable incomes and, most of all, predictable lives. Whyte saw this as a dramatic shift from the past because these organizations offered something that previous generations did not have, a safe haven from the real world, noting that “come graduation, they do not go outside to a hostile world; they
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