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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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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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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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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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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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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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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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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
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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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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 best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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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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