23. The various and disturbing consequences and long-term implications of this development were already real enough in 1970 to provoke gloomy analyses. Among those most helpful are Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970), and Richard Sennett, The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life (New York: Random House, 1970). The latter book is a disturbing look at suburbanization, within the framework of an individualism dominated by some combination of consumerism and fear – leaving the cities to “take care of themselves” with always more limited means and with predictably severe consequences for the larger society.