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The Same Historical Development That Turned The Citizen Into A Client Transformed The Worker From A Producer Into A Consumer.

It Is Advertising And The Logic Of Consumerism That Governs The Depiction Of Reality In The Mass Media.

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.

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.

The Family Is A Haven In A Heartless World.