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Christopher "Kit" Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester.

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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.

Consumerism, Different, Logic, Loyalty, Permanence

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.

Appeal, Appetite, Appropriation, Children, Desire, Lying

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.

Animal, Beings, Believe, Men, Question, Retreat

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Advertising, Depiction, Logic, Media, Reality

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.

Comfort, Defense, Independent, Wish, Work, World

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.

Children, Demand, Familiar, News, Place, Toy

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Appearance, Congratulations, Inspirational, Like, Succeeds, Success

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Alternative, Alternatives, Arise, Improvement, Marriages, Ruins

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.

Development, Discrepancies Between, Discrepancy, Emotional, Men, Sharp

It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

Brain, Enjoyment, Gets, Winning

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

Coercion, Justice, Measure, Perfect, Rests

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.

Blue, Dresses, Jobs, White, Work

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.

Attraction, Class, Disaffected, Ghetto, Order

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Connection, Connections, Drug, Drugs, Sense, Television

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

Button, Buttons, Conservatism, Denial, Smile, Symbol

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

People, Nuclear Families, Nuclear, Longer, Families

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.

Abortion, Attitude, Crime, Curriculum, Regarding, School

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

Capitalism, Conservative, Modern, Understanding

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Art, Art Is, Freedom, Scream, Work

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.

Sea, Play, People, Consumer, Official, Plays

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