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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
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Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
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Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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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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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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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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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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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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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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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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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 left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
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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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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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