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“Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.”
“Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.”
“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”
“Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.”
“The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.”
“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”
“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”
“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
“It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.”
“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”
“Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.”
“Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.”
“Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.”
“The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.”
“Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.”
“A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.”
“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
“Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.”
“Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.”