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.

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

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

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

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

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