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“The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.”

Christopher Lasch

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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

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“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps…

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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

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It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive…

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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

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We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left…

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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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

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

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The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All…

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