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Christopher Lasch Quotes About Family

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

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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.

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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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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.

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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

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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.

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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

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The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

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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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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

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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.

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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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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

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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.

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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 reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

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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 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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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

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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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Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

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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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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

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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.

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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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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 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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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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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.

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The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

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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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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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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.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

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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.

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

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Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

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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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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

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