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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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Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
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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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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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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 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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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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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 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 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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The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
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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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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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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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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 unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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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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