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.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.