It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
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