“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addict…” — Christopher Lasch

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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

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.