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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Christopher Lasch

Change

Now

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

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Activism

Will

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

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

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Development

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

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.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

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.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Christopher Lasch

Common sense

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.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.