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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

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
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
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Brain
Winning
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Enjoyment

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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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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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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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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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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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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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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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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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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 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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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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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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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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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 prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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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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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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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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