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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.
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
Robert Christopher Lasch
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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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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 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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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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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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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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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 work of art is a scream of freedom.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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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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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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