Art and intellect are solitary vocations, and their practitioners often require a common enemy to sustain the lonely effort. The suburbs continued to serve that

Art and intellect are solitary vocations, and their practitioners often require a common enemy to sustain the lonely effort. The suburbs continued to serve that purpose, but the type of antipathy toward them changed in the late '60s and '70s. Some of the stuff this guy decided to put on paper is just truly idiotic. There are a few bits of insight in the article, but it seems to mainly just be some poorly aimed anti-intellectual, anti-urban diatribe.