It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

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

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

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

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.