The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. Christopher Lasch More Quotes by Christopher Lasch More Quotes From Christopher Lasch The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself. Christopher Lasch prison-life looks past Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger. Christopher Lasch hygiene remains danger [Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything. Christopher Lasch tolerance attitude believe 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 suggestions important past Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots. Christopher Lasch roots needs Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. Christopher Lasch advertising economics want The conservative revival cannot be dismissed. Christopher Lasch revival conservative The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. Christopher Lasch hunting diversity family Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. Christopher Lasch intolerance indifference democracy Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. Christopher Lasch debate understood information It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going. Christopher Lasch enjoyment winning brain Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. Christopher Lasch owners technique masters Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. Christopher Lasch mirrors messages art Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. Christopher Lasch doom left fate Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch manipulation issues purpose The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. Christopher Lasch collapse lasts three 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 commodity news events Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. Christopher Lasch upgrading taste heart 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 growing attachment depth The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. Christopher Lasch common-sense paine left
