Already in 1976, Daniel Bell noticed the cultural contradiction similar to what David Brooks has labeled the “Bobo” phenomenon: Americans aspire to be a “Puritan by day and a playboy by night.”
I suppose the main difference between Bell’s cultural contradiction is that the Bobo wants to be a playboy by day too, so long as he can do so without interfering with the bottom line.
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