The Last Three Decades Have Seen The

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.

It Is A Tribute To The Peculiar Horror Of Contemporary Life That It Makes The Worst Features Of Earlier Times -- The Stupefaction Of The Masses, The Obsessed And Driven Lives Of The Bourgeoisie -- Seem Attractive By Comparison.

Environmentalism Opposes Reckless Innovation And Makes Conservation The Central Order Of Business.

Adherents Of The New Religious Right Reject The Separation Of Politics And Religion, But They Bring No Spiritual Insights To Politics.

Today Americans Are Overcome Not By The Sense Of Endless Possibility But By The Banality Of The Social Order They Have Erected Against It.