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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Capitalism
Conservative
Modern
Traditional
Traditional Values
Understanding
Distorted
Claim
Conservatives
Defend
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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 / Historian
Categories
Conventional
Left Wing
Lying
Political
Rejecting
Wings
Lie
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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 / Historian
Appeals
Children
Demand
Familiar
Jaded
News
Tire
Becomes
New One
Soon
Toy
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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Common Sense
Community
Enlightenment
Progress
Regard
Traditional
Obstacle
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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 / Historian
Common Language
Ordinary
Ordinary People
People
Prejudice
Converse
Finds
Increasingly
Unable
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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Society
Culture
Individualistic
Narcissist
World
Collective
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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.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Knowledge
Copies
Reality
Copy
Observer
Provides
Recognize
Scientifically
Trained
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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 for reaction.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Attachment
Depth
Growing
Concede
Led
Liberals
Popular
Reaction
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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 / Historian
Embedded
Perception
Shapes
Structure
Appealing
Confirm
Daily
Experiences
Ideologies
Perceptions
Shape
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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.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Ordinary
People
Play
Propaganda
Sea
Suspicion
Term
Society Important People
Consumer
Greet
Society People Important
Important Part
Official
Ordinary Sense
Plays
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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 / Historian
Law
Support
Unwritten
Wages
Attempt
Maintain
Wage
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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 of family life.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Loyalty
Consumerism
Destructive
Different
Family Life
Logic
Permanence
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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 / Historian
Family
Delusion
Grows
Modern
People
Redefining
Time Keep People
Arrangement
Attempt
Open
Family Time People
Options
Purely
Redefine
Voluntary
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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Agree
Arguing
Definitions
Divides
Opposing
Our Society
Sides
Deeply
Definition
Institution
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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 / Historian
Contention
Names
Speech
Swag
Forthright
George
Longer
Orwell
Plain
Sign
Sure Sign
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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 / Historian
Appropriation
Children
Desire
Lying
Ownership
Appeal
Lie
Possessions
Status
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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 school curriculum.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Attitude
Abortion
Crime
Curriculum
Defense
School
Attitudes
Popular
Regarding
Sees
Superstition
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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 / Historian
Appropriate
Cried
Family Values
Feelings
Popular Song
Rhetoric
Symbolism
Feeling
Finally
Grasped
Liberals
Popular
Purposes
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A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Commodity
Important
Nostalgia
Past
Suggestions
Exchange
Cultural
In The Past
Quickly
Suggestion
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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Rejection
Retreat
Safety
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The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Comfort
Independent
Wish
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Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Grace
Parent
Rejection
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Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Advertising
New Experiences
Way
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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Bourgeoisie
Horror
Peculiar
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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 him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Men
Discrepancies Between
Emotional
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Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Commodity
Events
News
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The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Inspirational
Roles
Technique
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Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Jobs
Blue
Class
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We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Class
Ghetto
Order
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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Men
Animal
Believe
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