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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

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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Littles
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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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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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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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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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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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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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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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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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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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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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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[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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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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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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