The criminal irony is, how many decades later, we now shop at Partridge Creeks and vacation at Disney to get any semblance of a real town or neighborhood--no matter how canned, contrived, and cartoony it may be. Aside from a handful of places, that's all we have left. Our culture has been reduced to a giant cartoon.
Whereas, after World War II, the Europeans reconstructed their bombed-out cities EXACTLY THE WAY THEY WERE. If you compare photos of modern-day Warszawa and Detroit, you'd think the war was fought on our turf.
This is what people mean when they talk about American arrogance.
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