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Explanations of a theme running as deep as political alienation must be made in terms of factors that extend over several generations. For it arises from the very shaping of the total society, and must be understood in terms of shifts over a period of time which it helps to define as an epoch.
Many of the psychological trends we have examined in connection with the transformation of the middle classes implement indifference as a prevailing political tone. One of the characteristic psychological features of the American social structure today is its systematic creation and maintenance of estrangement from society and from selfhood. Only against this broad background can we hope to understand the specific factors that have focused these trends in the political sphere.