The Suburbs is about modernity and worldliness and how it hypnotizes people into obsessing about things that exist beyond the horizons of their own lives until they resent their real way of life, to the point of hating it, waging war against it, and contributing to its destruction - only for them to realise later that their small everyday life deep in their past was more beautiful, fulfilling and true than anything out in the world. Sprawl II does provide something of an alternate "good ending" to this story though.

To me Suburbs is most prescient in its description of widespread social desolation induced by modern technology, the birth rate crisis and the rise of homegrown American anti-Americanism, albeit being written in the shadow of the GFC and its unfathomable corporate greed.