“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
Family
“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
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“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.”
Society“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
Age“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.”
Marriage“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”
Family“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.”
Society“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
Family“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”
Family“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
Nature“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”
Family“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”
Society“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”
Family“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.”
Politics“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
Family“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
Wisdom“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”
Politics“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”
Change“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”
Family“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”
Experience“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.”
Politics