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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Christopher Lasch

Perceptions

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, forthright speech.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

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Age

Character

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

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

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Christopher Lasch

Values

Destruction

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

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

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Debate

Information

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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

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.