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Christopher Lasch Quotes
A childs appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
George Orwells contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is Gods gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is Gods gift to the collective. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they dont already want to buy. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
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