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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.
Christopher Lasch
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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
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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 news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
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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 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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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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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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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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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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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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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
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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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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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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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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 family is a haven in a heartless world.
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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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