News Represents Another Form Of Advertising, Not

I Despise The Cowardly Clinging To Life, Purely For The Sake Of Life, That Seems So Deeply Ingrained In The American Temperament.

The Left No Longer Stands For Common Sense, As It Did In The Days Of Tom Paine.

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.

It Is The Logic Of Consumerism That Undermines The Values Of Loyalty And Permanence And Promotes A Different Set Of Values That Is Destructive Of Family Life.

The Prison Life Of The Past Looks In Our Own Time Like Liberation Itself.