#co

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

— Christopher Lasch

#contribute #destruction #forces #side #social

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. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

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

— Christopher Lasch

#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

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

— Christopher Lasch

#connection #conservatives #grasp #link #nature

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

— Christopher Lasch

#cannot #conduct #confirm #daily #embedded

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing

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

#about #collapse #diversity #emergence #family life

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

#awareness #concede #depth #family #growing

The left has lost the common touch. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #lost #touch

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

#consumerism #image #just #largely #make