We Demand Too Much Of

Much Of What Is Euphemistically Known As The Middle Class, Merely Because It Dresses Up To Go To Work, Is Now Reduced To Proletarian Conditions Of Existence. Many White-collar Jobs Require No More Skill And Pay Even Less Than Blue-collar Jobs, Conferring Little Status Or Security.

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.

Ideologies, However Appealing, Cannot Shape The Whole Structure Of Perceptions And Conduct Unless They Are Embedded In Daily Experiences That Confirm Them.

The Effect Of The Mass Media Is Not To Elicit Belief But To Maintain The Apparatus Of Addiction.

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.