This was an anti-car, anti-postwar suburb thing. I was an avid enjoyer of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, James Howard Kunstler’s The Geography of Nowhere and Home From Nowhere and a host of other urban-related books. Yes, I love walkable cities etc but nobody ever appointed me to be the Great Judge of All People, and I have paid dearly for it.
At the end of the day we all have our plusses and minuses and I’m certainly in no position to judge or comment on most people just trying to get through their lives.