Christopher Lasch Quotes
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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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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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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 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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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
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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.