#mer

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ↗

— Doug Larson

#being #called #consumption #dog #eaten

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#form #merely #most #obvious #our

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

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 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

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

— Christopher Lasch

#formerly #left #master #sustained #techniques

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