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

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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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

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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

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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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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

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