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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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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

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

— Christopher Lasch

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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contention #described #forthright #george #longer

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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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

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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

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My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

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