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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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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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 prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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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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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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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 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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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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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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