Christopher Lasch Quotes - Page 3

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• [Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

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  Attitude, Believe, Tolerance

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• 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.

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  Definitions, Our Society, Sides

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

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  Reality, Media, Logic

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

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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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  Drug, Connections, Television

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

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  News, Journalism, Advertising

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

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• A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

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  Attachment, Depth, Growing

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• It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

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  Bourgeoisie, Peculiar, Horror

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• Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

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  Roots, Needs

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• Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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  Heart, Upgrading, Taste

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Alternatives, Ruins, Improvement

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• The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

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  Development, Way, Consumerism

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• The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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  Party, Common Sense, Lost Friendship

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• Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

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  Perception, Shapes, Embedded

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• 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.

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  Culture, World, Narcissist

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• The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

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  Past, Prison Life, Looks

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• Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

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  Rejection, Parent, Grace

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• The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

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  Three, Lasts, Collapse

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• Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

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  Order, Innovation, Conservation

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• Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

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  Information, Debate, Understood

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• Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

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  Fate, Doom, Left

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• The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

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  Common Sense, Paine, Left

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• The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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  Encouragement, Jobs, Information

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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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  Want, Advertising, Economics

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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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  Wings, Religion And Politics, Right Wing

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• 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.

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  Sea, Play, People

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