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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

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

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.

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

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.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Christopher Lasch

Danger

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

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.

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

Christopher Lasch

Advertising