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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Business Central Conservation Environmentalism Innovation Makes Order Reckless

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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.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Any Better Commodity Cultural Exchange Important In The Past Life Made Nostalgia Past Quickly Society Suggestion Than Today Way

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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Against American Endless Order Overcome Possibility Sense Social Social Order Today

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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Art Consumerism Image Just Largely Make Message Mirror Modern Modern Art New Which

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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.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Allowed Extremists Family Issue Left Manipulate Most Own Purposes Right Who Women Women Are

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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Advertising Anything Buy Cannot Consumers Economics Force Insists Want

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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Cannot Conservative Dismissed Revival

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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Citizen Client Consumer Development Historical Producer Same Transformed Turned Worker

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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Better By-Product Debate Information Seen Understood

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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

Topics: Copy Get Knowledge Observer Provides Reality Recognize Scientifically Trained Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 1st, 1932

Died: February 14th, 1994

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