It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
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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.
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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