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Justin Wilford’s Myth

The Myths That Make Us

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The Suburbs Are Like an Organ in Western Culture

I got a master's in political theory. My thesis was about the anti democratic nature of American suburbs. And so then I decided okay I want to study the suburbs like that's I just want to find out what is what makes these things tick. The suburb is like an organ in the body of Western culture if you think of it as like a grand organism, the invention of the suburb is like a mutation for like a new type of fundamental unit of how the culture organizes itself.

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