>>12940102I think Mark Steyn, or somebody like that, wrote about this once: everywhere you go now, there's music playing. (And it's all modern music, too.) You're filling up the car, and there's music playing on the forecourt. What for? What if you don't feel like listening to it? Too bad.
It's gotten worse since he wrote that. I filled up with petrol the other day, and they'd installed telescreens at the pumps blaring incredibly obnoxious adverts on a loop. At least sometimes I liked the music.
>It cannot be too often repeated that what destroyed the Family in the modern world was Capitalism. No doubt it might have been Communism, if Communism had ever had a chance, outside that semi-Mongolian wilderness where it actually flourishes. But so far as we are concerned, what has broken up households and encouraged divorces, and treated the old domestic virtues with more and more open contempt, is the epoch and power of Capitalism.>It is Capitalism that has forced a moral feud and a commercial competition between the sexes; that has destroyed the influence of the parent in favor of the influence of the employer; that has driven men from their homes to look for jobs; that has forced them to live near their factories or their firms instead of near their families; and, above all, ***that has encouraged for commercial reasons, a parade of publicity and garish novelty, which is in its nature the death of all that was called dignity and modesty by our mothers and fathers.*** 
