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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.
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
Sociologist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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