George Orwell's Contention Was That It Is

We Live In A Historical Period Characterized By A Sharp Discrepancy Between The Intellectual Development Of Man... And His Mental-emotional Development, Which Has Left Him Still In A State Of Marked Narcissism With All Its Pathological Symptoms.

The Model Of Ownership, In A Society Organized Round Mass Consumption, Is Addiction.

[reinhold] Niebuhr Endorsed G.k.chesterton’s Observation That Tolerance Is The Attitude Of Those Who Do Not Believe In Anything.

Today Americans Are Overcome Not By The Sense Of Endless Possibility But By The Banality Of The Social Order They Have Erected Against It.

The Left Sees Nothing But Bigotry And Superstition In The Popular Defense Of The Family Or In Popular Attitudes Regarding Abortion, Crime, Busing, And The School Curriculum.