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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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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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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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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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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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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
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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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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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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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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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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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