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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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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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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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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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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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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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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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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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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 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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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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The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
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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 left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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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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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
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