Nothing Succeeds Like The Appearance Of Success.

Information, Usually Seen As The Precondition Of Debate, Is Better Understood As Its By-product.

Propaganda In The Ordinary Sense Of The Term Plays A Less Important Part In A Consumer Society, Where People Greet All Official Pronouncements With Suspicion.

Much Of What Is Euphemistically Known As The Middle Class, Merely Because It Dresses Up To Go To Work, Is Now Reduced To Proletarian Conditions Of Existence. Many White-collar Jobs Require No More Skill And Pay Even Less Than Blue-collar Jobs, Conferring Little Status Or Security.

A Child's Appetite For New Toys Appeal To The Desire For Ownership And Appropriation: The Appeal Of Toys Comes To Lie Not In Their Use But In Their Status As Possessions.

The News Appeals To The Same Jaded Appetite That Makes A Child Tire Of A Toy As Soon As It Becomes Familiar And Demand A New One In Its Place.