American - 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
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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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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
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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.
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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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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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
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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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