Christopher Lasch quotes - page 2

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. (Christopher Lasch)
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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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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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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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.
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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.
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. (Christopher Lasch)
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
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Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
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The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. (Christopher Lasch)
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
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A child's 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.
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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
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