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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
Christopher Lasch
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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
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Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
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Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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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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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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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 left has lost the common touch.
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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 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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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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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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Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.
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We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.
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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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