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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Addiction Apparatus Belief Effect Elicit Maintain Mass Mass Media Media

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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Advertising Consumerism Governs Logic Mass Mass Media Media Reality

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Appearance Like Nothing Succeeds Success

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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Consumer Heart Improvement Mass Merchandising Product Relentless Tastes

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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Age Character Develops Every Exaggerated Express Form Forms Own Pathology Peculiar Structure Underlying Which

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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.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Appeal Appetite Appropriation Child Desire Lie New Ownership Possessions Status Toys Use

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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Bring Insights New Politics Reject Religion Religious Religious Right Right Separation Spiritual

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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

Topics: Come Common Common Sense Community Enlightenment Left Obstacle Progress Regard Sense Traditional Wisdom

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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Common Common Sense Itself Left Lost Making Opinion Party Popular Possible Present Right Sense Thereby Touch

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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.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Consumerism Destructive Different Family Family Life Life Logic Loyalty Permanence Set Values

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 1st, 1932

Died: February 14th, 1994

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