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.

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

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 family is a haven in a heartless world.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.