Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.