Median mid-career Enterprise IT people are the best modern instances to Sinclair Lewis' Babbit archetype. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(
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who in practice disagrees with "it's God's purpose that man should work and increase his income"?
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that's not the essence of Babbit. It's unimaginative, uncritical banality.
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Wow. Reads like William Whyte Organization Man/Beatnik culture was time shifted 30 years. Is this a cyclical American phenomenon?
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No, it grew steadily 1870-1970 and went into decline after that.


