Personal Disintegration Remains Always An Imminent Danger.

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.

The Attempt To Redefine The Family As A Purely Voluntary Arrangement Grows Out Of The Modern Delusion That People Can Keep All Their Options Open All The Time.

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

Ostensibly Rigorous And Realistic, Contemporary Conservatism Is An Ideology Of Denial. Its Symbol Is A Smile Button.

The Left Dismisses Talk About The Collapse Of Family Life And Talks Instead About The Emergence Of The Growing New Diversity Of Family Types.