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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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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
Journalist
Social Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
Modern
Art
Consumerism
Make
Largely
Mirror
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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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 effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.
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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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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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