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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
— Christopher Lasch
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
— Christopher Lasch
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
— Christopher Lasch
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
— Christopher Lasch
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
— Christopher Lasch
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
— Christopher Lasch
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
— Christopher Lasch
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
— Christopher Lasch
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
— Christopher Lasch
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
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
— Christopher Lasch
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
— Christopher Lasch
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
— Christopher Lasch
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
— Christopher Lasch
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
— Christopher Lasch
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
— Christopher Lasch
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
— Christopher Lasch
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
— Christopher Lasch
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.
— Christopher Lasch
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
— Christopher Lasch
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
— Christopher Lasch
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
— Christopher Lasch
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
— Christopher Lasch
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
— Christopher Lasch
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
— Christopher Lasch
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
— Christopher Lasch
The left has lost the common touch.
— Christopher Lasch
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
— Christopher Lasch
It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
— Christopher Lasch
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
— Christopher Lasch
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
— Christopher Lasch
The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to the hypothetical solidarity of the human race.
— Christopher Lasch
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.
— Christopher Lasch
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
— Christopher Lasch
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
— Christopher Lasch
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
— Christopher Lasch
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
— Christopher Lasch
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
— Christopher Lasch
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
— Christopher Lasch
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.
— Christopher Lasch
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
— Christopher Lasch
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
— Christopher Lasch
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
— Christopher Lasch
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
— Christopher Lasch
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
— Christopher Lasch
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
— Christopher Lasch
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
— Christopher Lasch
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
— Christopher Lasch
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
— Christopher Lasch
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
— Christopher Lasch
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
— Christopher Lasch
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
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
— Christopher Lasch
