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Christopher Lasch


American
June 1, 1932
Historian
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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.


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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.


Christopher Lasch
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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.


Christopher Lasch
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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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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Christopher Lasch
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
Christopher Lasch
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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
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
Tags: God Society World
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Christopher Lasch
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
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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.
Christopher Lasch
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
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
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.
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