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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
Christopher Lasch
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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
Journalist
Social Critic
Sociologist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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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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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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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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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 family is a haven in a heartless world.
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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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 no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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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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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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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
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