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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
Christopher Lasch
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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
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Social Critic
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Omaha
Nebraska
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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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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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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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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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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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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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