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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's Popular Quotes

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appeti…

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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…

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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, for…

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The family is a haven in a heartless world.

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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.

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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.

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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 r…

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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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

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