Suburbs are sold as prefab sociable neighborhoods, but they mostly alienate. Especially since more and more people just stare at a screen when they get home until they go to bed. Most people don't even really know their neighbors anymore.

Alienation leads to suburbanites not engaging with the world outside their insular bubble. Most people in the suburbs only interact with their immediate family daily. Without healthy socialization that would confront wrong-headed or wild ideas they just stew in their theories about how the world works. Being called on your shit keeps people grounded in reality. Suburbanites in general are like this. It is not just white suburbanites.

The suburbs were a mistake.