Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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.