“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
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.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
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.
