Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
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