News Represents Another Form Of Advertising, Not

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.

Neoclassical Economics Insists That Advertising Cannot Force Consumers To Buy Anything They Don't Already Want To Buy.

The Intellectual Debility Of Contemporary Conservatism Is Indicated By Its Silence On All Important Matters.

It Is A Tribute To The Peculiar Horror Of Contemporary Life That It Makes The Worst Features Of Earlier Times -- The Stupefaction Of The Masses, The Obsessed And Driven Lives Of The Bourgeoisie -- Seem Attractive By Comparison.

In An Individualistic Culture, The Narcissist Is God's Gift To The World. In A Collectivist Society, The Narcissist Is God's Gift To The Collective.