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American
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Historian
June 1
, 1932 -
February 14
, 1994
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch
Addiction
Media
Belief
Mass Media
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch
Society
Addiction
Ownership
Round
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
Christopher Lasch
Business
Innovation
Conservation
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Christopher Lasch
Reality
Media
Advertising
Logic
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
Success
Nothing
Appearance
Like
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch
Lie
Child
New
Toys
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
Christopher Lasch
Heart
Improvement
Product
Consumer
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Christopher Lasch
Life
Today
Society
Past
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
Today
Overcome
Sense
Against
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
Christopher Lasch
Politics
Religion
Spiritual
New
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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Christopher Lasch
People
Tradition
Language
Prejudice
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Christopher Lasch
Love
Politics
Justice
Never
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
Christopher Lasch
Capitalism
Understanding
Values
Claim
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.
Christopher Lasch
Speech
Trouble
Things
Right
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Christopher Lasch
Experience
Daily
Society
New
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
Christopher Lasch
Family
Support
Law
Capitalism
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
Christopher Lasch
Always
Personal
Danger
Remains
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Christopher Lasch
Family
Abortion
School
Nothing
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
Family
Strength
Feeling
Own
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher Lasch
Age
Character
Own
Structure
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
God
Culture
Gift
Society
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Christopher Lasch
Debate
Better
Information
Seen
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
Knowledge
Reality
Copy
Us
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Christopher Lasch
Job
Debate
Information
Press
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.
Christopher Lasch
Family
Awareness
Some
Reaction
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Christopher Lasch
Nature
Television
Connection
Sense
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