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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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[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.
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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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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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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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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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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 left has lost the common touch.
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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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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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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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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 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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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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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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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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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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