Christopher Lasch
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“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
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“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.” -Christopher Lasch
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“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
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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.” -Christopher Lasch
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“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.” -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
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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
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“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.” -Christopher Lasch
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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.” -Christopher Lasch
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.” -Christopher Lasch
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“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.” -Christopher Lasch
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“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.” -Christopher Lasch
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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. – Christopher Lasch
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