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

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

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

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.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.