“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.”
Knowledge
“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
FamilyAll Quotes by Christopher Lasch
“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”
Family“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.”
Smile“A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.”
Society“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
Age“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
Family“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.”
Family“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.”
Family“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.”
Family“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.”
Family“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.”
Politics“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”
Experience“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”
Family“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”
Family“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
Wisdom“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”
Change“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”
Politics“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
Society“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
Family“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
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