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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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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
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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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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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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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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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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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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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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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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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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
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The left has lost the common touch.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.
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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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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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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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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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