One view is that after the war people had a lot of new technologies and knowledge but nothing else, as it was destroyed during the war or all drilled to support

One view is that after the war people had a lot of new technologies and knowledge but nothing else, as it was destroyed during the war or all drilled to support the war machine. Since the knowledge was there and also a lot of level plain field (pun intended) new visions were developed to rebuild and put people to work. Nowadays most people have most necessities and also luxury stuff making it easy to be on the nimby train rather than developing a small understanding for the complexities of our current world and what decisions can be simple but impactful.