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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. - Christopher Lasch
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all. - Christopher Lasch
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The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. - Christopher Lasch
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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. - Christopher Lasch
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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. - Christopher Lasch
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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
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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. - Christopher Lasch
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. - Christopher Lasch
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The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. - Christopher Lasch
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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. - Christopher Lasch
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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. - Christopher Lasch
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George Orwell's 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
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. - Christopher Lasch
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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. - Christopher Lasch
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. - Christopher Lasch
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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
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. - Christopher Lasch
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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. - Christopher Lasch
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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. - Christopher Lasch
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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. - Christopher Lasch
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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. - Christopher Lasch
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The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. - Christopher Lasch
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - Christopher Lasch
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