#cons

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#condemn #conservatives #counsel #doom #environmentalism

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

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #depiction #governs #logic #mass

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

— Christopher Lasch

#already #anything #buy #cannot #consumers

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

— Christopher Lasch

#heart #improvement #mass #merchandising #product

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #developments #eroded #family #life

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contemporary #important #important matters #indicated #intellectual

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#first #instance #might #questions #right

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#conscious #excessively #feel #know #little

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#conventional #electronica #music #people #play

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think. ↗

— Jude Law

#consider #fashion #great #i #may