119 Quotes by Christopher Lasch

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

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.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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 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 left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

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

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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