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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Addiction Consumption Mass Model Organized Ownership Round Society

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The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Appeals Appetite Becomes Child Demand Familiar Jaded Makes New New One News Place Same Soon Tire Toy

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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Insist Left Mix Politics Proper Religion Reply Response Right Right Wing Stock Wing

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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: About Agree Arguing Cannot Deeply Definition Divides Even Family Institution Now Opposing Our Question Sides Society

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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Commodities Events Images News Propaganda Reporting Understood

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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Activism Left Master Sustained Techniques Will

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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Addict Change Now Revolutionaries

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: About Appropriate Cried Family Family Values Feeling Finally Grasped Liberals Own Popular Purposes Rhetoric Strength Symbolism Values

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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Collective Culture Gift God Narcissist Society World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 1st, 1932

Died: February 14th, 1994

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