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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
Christopher Lasch
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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
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Omaha
Nebraska
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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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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
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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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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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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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The left has lost the common touch.
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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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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
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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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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
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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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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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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
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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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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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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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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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