It Is The Logic Of Consumerism That

Even The Reporting Of News Has To Be Understood Not As Propaganda For Any Particular Ideology, Liberal Or Conservative, But As Propaganda For Commodities — For The Replacement Of Things By Commodities, Use Values By Exchange Values, And Events By Images.

Ostensibly Rigorous And Realistic, Contemporary Conservatism Is An Ideology Of Denial. Its Symbol Is A Smile Button.

Progressive Rhetoric Has The Effect Of Concealing Social Crisis And Moral Breakdown By Presenting Them As The Birth Pangs Of A New Order.

The Conservative Revival Cannot Be Dismissed.

A Society That Has Made 'nostalgia' A Marketable Commodity On The Cultural Exchange Quickly Repudiates The Suggestion That Life In The Past Was In Any Important Way Better Than Life Today.