In Our Society, Daily Experience

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.

Conservatives Unwittingly Side With The Social Forces That Contribute To The Destruction Of Traditional Values.

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 Effect Of The Mass Media Is Not To Elicit Belief But To Maintain The Apparatus Of Addiction.