Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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.
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.
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
The model of ownership in a society organized round mass consumption is addiction.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
