Ah I see. I think if you read what situationists and the like actually said, you'd learn that such examples of rapid of capitalist growth is precisely the objec

Ah I see. I think if you read what situationists and the like actually said, you'd learn that such examples of rapid of capitalist growth is precisely the object of their critique! Like it or not, many thinkers in this era do not see liberalism as a particularly powerful answer or conclusion to the terror of facism they lived through or inherited. Quite the opposite in fact! And situationism falls squarely in this camp. I gather you would not agree, totally fine, but that is different than asserting "they just didn't know how lucky they already had it." But then again, from your original comment, what has gone wrong since? Why have we forever lost our safety and comfort? If it is not something intrinsic to what began during such reconstructions, I wonder what external force you have in mind?