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Profiting off the intrepid search for Utopia, private developers, and financial lending companies infiltrated the communal dynamics of society. Industry billowed forth to engulf, for the first time, how culture generates through the synaptic connections firing between community and personal relations. The burbs, as it amalgamated, was sold as a way to gain anonymity, and freedom from the congestion of operating within the overabundance of detritus compounded in city dwellings. Oppressive systems working in the shadow of fear promised communities of like-minded, who just like you, were following America’s Manifest Destiny of freedom into the setting sun. Freedom, now repackaged as a lawn, two-car garage, and open floor plan so one could lord over their domain and be reminded of their achievement.
