He claimed that it was a new phenomenon because the postwar economy was booming in the US, unlike the rest of the world. As he claims, while there should be scarcity, there's an economy of abundance in the US, which goes against common sense.
answer is A
Transcendentalism is the belief that a person's intuition will help her reach spiritual understanding.
Transcendentalism is an idea and movement which developed in late 1820s and 1830s in the United States. It was inspired by the European romanticism and the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The main point of the transcendentalist was the advantage of subjective intuition over the objective empirical research.
The main representatives of this movement were: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Amos Bronson Alcott.
It made it easier to transport materials to all of the cities
My answer for this question would be AGREE. Yes, I don't like to work with ignorant people. Ignorance is a choice. Ignorance can be avoided when you have the eagerness to learn. Ignorance is like an excuse for those people who are lazy enough to learn and people like these are considered a liability.