Christopher Lasch
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Appearance is real in its consequences. Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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The Conservative has a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.They have no understanding of modern capitalism..
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Consumerism is like modern art, its mirror image, guided as it is by the message 'make it new'
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A Culture of narcissism is a disposition of mass consumption which sees the world as a mirror, as the projection of one's own fears and desires.
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A Drugs is merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
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The Family is, for the left, not about a collapse but about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
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The Family is so divisive in modern society that that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
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The Family is wrongheadedly taken to be a purely voluntary arrangement. This notion grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
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Ideology is unable to shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
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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.
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The Mass media is tasked not with eliciting belief but with maintaining the apparatus of addiction.