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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.


Christopher Lasch


#agree #arguing #cannot #deeply #definition

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

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.


Christopher Lasch


#banality #endless #erected #order #overcome

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.


Fran Lebowitz


#both #cheat #children #desirable #easy

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.


Christopher Lasch


#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.


Christopher Lasch


#bring #insights #new #politics #reject

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.


Christopher Lasch


#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.


Christopher Lasch


#connection #conservatives #grasp #link #nature

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

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






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