Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

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.

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