#sm

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

— Christopher Lasch

#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly

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

— Christopher Lasch

#formerly #left #master #sustained #techniques

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

— Christopher Lasch

#central #conservation #environmentalism #innovation #makes

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

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 left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#believe #between #conflict #family #feminism

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

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#die #liberalism #lives #never #note