American - Historian | June 1, 1932 - February 14, 1994
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
Christopher Lasch
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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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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.
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
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