Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
From Christopher Lasch
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
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.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
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.
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