Drugs Are Merely The Most Obvious Form

Adherents Of The New Religious Right Reject The Separation Of Politics And Religion, But They Bring No Spiritual Insights To Politics.

Every Age Develops Its Own Peculiar Forms Of Pathology, Which Express In Exaggerated Form Its Underlying Character Structure.

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.

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.

The Hope Of A New Politics Does Not Lie In Formulating A Left-wing Reply To The Right-it Lies In Rejecting Conventional Political Categories.