Christopher Lasch Quotes About Advertising

Quotes about: Advertising

• 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

  New Experiences, Way, Advertising

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

• It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

  Christopher Lasch

  Reality, Media, Logic

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.519, W. W. Norton & Company

• News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

  Christopher Lasch

  News, Journalism, Advertising

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

• Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

  Christopher Lasch

  Want, Advertising, Economics

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