The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates--the inhabitants of marketing zones in the con...sumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the publi...c be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The "marketing" immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a ma...n in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard--it is absurd, unreal, dangerous.... The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, ...a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Middle-aged and older people today can expect to spend more time caring for their parents than they did caring for their children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »