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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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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
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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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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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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 conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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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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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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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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