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    Christopher Lasch

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    Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

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    In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

    #daily experience #experience #individual #need #never-ending

    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. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

    #conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing

    The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

    #about #collapse #diversity #emergence #family life

    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

    #destructive #different #different set #family #family life

    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

    #better #commodity #cultural #exchange #important

    Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

    #become #coercion #irreducible #justice #love

    It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

    #american #attempt #capitalism #family #industry

    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

    #consumerism #image #just #largely #make

    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. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

    #arrangement #attempt #delusion #grows #keep






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    " In addition he finalized his intentions for the essays to be included in Women and the Common Life: Love Marriage and Feminism which was publiChristopher Laschd with his daughter's introduction in 1997. It would not make a paycheck the only symbol of accomplishment. Most of his books even the more strictly historical ones include such sharp criticism of the priorities of alleged "radicals" who represented merely extreme formations of a rapacious capitalist ethos.

    ' His books including The New Radicalism in America (1965) Haven in a Heartless World (1977) The Culture of Narcissism (1979) and The True and Only Heaven (1991) were widely discussed and reviewed. In the 1960s he was a neo-Marxist and acerbic critic of Cold War liberalism. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions public and private were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities.

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