Christopher Lasch Quotes
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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.
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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
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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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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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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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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.