“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”
— Christopher Lasch
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Category: society
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of
“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.”
— Christopher Lasch
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In our society, daily experience teaches the
“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”
— Christopher Lasch
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The attempt to redefine the family as
“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”
— Christopher Lasch
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Category: family
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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic
“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.”
— Christopher Lasch
Author: Christopher Lasch
Category: family
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Make it new is the message not
“Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.”
— Christopher Lasch
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The question of the family now divides
“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”
— Christopher Lasch
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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the
“Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.”
— Christopher Lasch
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of
“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.”
— Christopher Lasch
Author: Christopher Lasch
Category: family
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is
“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.”
— Christopher Lasch
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The model of ownership, in a society
“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
— Christopher Lasch
Author: Christopher Lasch
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