/lit/ - Literature

op if you want to look into the 1950s mindset you should read this. it's like half about 1950s big business and then the second half is a sociological study of the suburbs which were a new phenomenon at the time. the guy is not an ideologue, there's no marxoid bs, if anything he worries the collectivism of post-war america could reduce our competitiveness in science and engineering. of course, it was published right before "the traitorous eight" left shockley's lab to start fairchild, so it's really peak 1950s problems, but when you think about all the conformity being enforced today in business and higher ed maybe we're now in a mirror image of the 50s were conformity is essential just the values you must conform to are swapped.