Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is...

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is...

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to...

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to...

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with...

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with...

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in...

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in...

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are...

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are...

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they...

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they...

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism,...

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism,...

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as...

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as...

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature...

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature...

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of...

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of...

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to...

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as...

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as...

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of...

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of...

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and...

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and...

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the...

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the...