Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

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.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

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