When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.
Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.
I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.