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Speaking of urban planning, lewis Mumford was also very interested in this topic.
He also wrote Technics & Civilization and The Pentagon of Pentagon. Two books in which he described the origins and historical developments of what he called the formative myth or meta-pattern that has always patterned Western Civilization. He called it the Invisible Megamachine. He also pointed out that the root motive of the entire Western cultural project, including its dominant religion, has been the drive to gain power and control over every one and everything.

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since Mumford wrote these books. The all encompassing power of the Megamachine has increased exponentially.

Put in another way every aspect of USA culture is now patterned by the “values” of the military-industrial-”entertainmemt” complex. And to the degree that the USA is effectively a permanent warfare state. Most of the “entertainment” is really pure propaganda for the system altogether.

TV is easily the most dominant formative influence on/of USA culture which is now essentially a “culture” created in the image of TV. Vance Packard told us about this years ago, as did Stuart Ewen in Captains of Consciousness.

I would also say that USA culture is effectively a combination of the nightmare scenarios of Brave New World and 1984, with the masses effectively studipified and made self-oblivious by junk food and a cornucopia of all kinds of drugs, to either help them cope or escape. With the permanent warfare state and the never ending “war on teror” as the constant sub-liminal background pattern. The obese every-person is now the archetypal dreadfully sane every-person.

Amusing them-selves to death (Neil Postman).