#ow

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

— Christopher Lasch

#cannot #conduct #confirm #daily #embedded

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

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#awareness #concede #depth #family #growing

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

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

— Christopher Lasch

#consumption #mass #model #organized #ownership

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#get #knowledge #observer #preferably #provides

I'm in the major league now. ↗

— Pitbull

#league #major #major league #now

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#breakdown #concealing #crisis #effect #moral

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

#appropriate #cried #family #family values #feeling

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl? ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#burned #doing #ever #get #girl