Conservatives Have No Understanding Of Modern Capitalism.

The Best Defense Against The Terror Of Existence Are The Homely Comforts Of Love, Work, And Family Life, Which Connect Us To A World That Is Independent Of Our Wishes Yet Responsive To Our Needs.

We Do Not Need To Minimize The Poverty Of The Ghetto Or The Suffering Inflicted By Whites On Blacks In Order To See That The Increasingly Dangerous And Unpredictable Conditions Of Middle-class Life Have Given Rise To Similar Strategies For Survival. Indeed The Attraction Of Black Culture For Disaffected Whites Suggests That Black Culture Now Speaks To A General Condition.

The Model Of Ownership, In A Society Organized Round Mass Consumption, Is Addiction.

The Family Is A Haven In A Heartless World.

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.