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    Christopher Lasch

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    Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

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    Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

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


    — Christopher Lasch

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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

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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

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


    — Christopher Lasch

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    Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

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


    — Christopher Lasch

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


    — Christopher Lasch

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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. ↗


    — Christopher Lasch

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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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