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

— Christopher Lasch

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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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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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I laughed all the way through Love Story. ↗

— Paul Lynde

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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

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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

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

— Christopher Lasch

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

— 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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