Christopher Lasch Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Knowledge, Reality, Copies

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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.

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  Ghetto, Order, Class

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

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  Children, Lying, Desire

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• Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

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  Understanding, Conservative, Modern

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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.

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  Loyalty, Different, Logic

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

  Christopher Lasch

  Smile, Buttons, Denial

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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.

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  Inspirational, Technique, Roles

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

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  Silence, Intellectual, Important

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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.

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  Past, Important, Suggestions

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

  Christopher Lasch

  Perfect, Justice, Coercion

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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

  Attitude, School, Abortion

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• I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

  Christopher Lasch

  Sake, Despise, Clinging

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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.

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  Family, Hunting, Diversity

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

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  Technique, Masters, Owners

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• The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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  Believe, People, Feminist

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• Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

  Christopher Lasch

  People, Nuclear Families, Nuclear

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• Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

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  Overcoming Addiction, Drug, Our Society

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• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

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  Defense, Definitions, Conviction

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• The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

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  Historical, Citizens, Development

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

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  Symbolism, Feelings, Popular Song

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• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

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  Hygiene, Danger, Remains

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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.

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  Independent, Wish, Comfort

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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

  Events, News, Commodity

  "The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics".

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• Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

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  Democracy, Indifference, Intolerance

  Christopher Lasch (1996). “The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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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

  Definitions, Our Society, Sides

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