In Our Society, Daily Experience Teaches The

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.

It Is No Longer An Unwritten Law Of American Capitalism That Industry Will Attempt To Maintain Wages At A Level That Allows A Single Wage To Support A Family.

It Is The Logic Of Consumerism That Undermines The Values Of Loyalty And Permanence And Promotes A Different Set Of Values That Is Destructive Of Family Life.

The Left Ask People To Believe That There Is No Conflict Between Feminism And The Family.