Christopher Lasch Quotes
- Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
- Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
- The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
- The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
- The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
- The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
- 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…
- 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.
- Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
- The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the…
- The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.