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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

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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
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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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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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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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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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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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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
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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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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 prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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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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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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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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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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[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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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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The left has lost the common touch.
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