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The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage. Charles A. Beard
History Progress Stage Difficult Society Cross-Section Given Study Reveals Accidental Causes Been Continuous Get Any Often Human Depending Regular View Human Progress Apparently
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. Christopher Lasch
Ownership Society Addiction Consumption Mass Model Organized Round
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
Lie Ownership Appropriation Possessions Status New Toys Child Use Appeal Appetite Desire
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. Christopher Lasch
Heart Relentless Consumer Merchandising Mass Improvement Tastes Product
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. Christopher Lasch
Life Today Better Made Important Past Society Way Exchange Cultural Quickly Than Any Commodity Nostalgia In The Past Suggestion
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. Christopher Lasch
Today Overcome Sense Possibility Banality American Endless Order Against Social Social Order
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. Christopher Lasch
People Language Increasingly Unable Finds Because Tradition Left Itself Common Common Language Ordinary Converse Ordinary People Prejudice
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. Christopher Lasch
Love Politics Justice Become Rests Perfect Perfect Love Never Because Realm Measure Coercion
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. Christopher Lasch
Capitalism Values Understanding Conservatives Claim Distorted Traditional Traditional Values Modern Defend
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. Christopher Lasch
Family Capitalism Law Will Single Attempt Support Maintain Longer Industry Unwritten Wage Wages American Level
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. Christopher Lasch
Strength Family Values Feeling Own Cried Appropriate Liberals Finally About Purposes Family Values Rhetoric Grasped Popular Symbolism
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. Christopher Lasch
Character Age Own Every Exaggerated Structure Develops Underlying Pathology Form Which Forms Express Peculiar
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. Christopher Lasch
God Culture World Gift Collective Society Individualistic Narcissist
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. Christopher Lasch
Knowledge Reality Recognize Observer Scientifically Provides Trained Get Us Copy
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. Christopher Lasch
Debate Job Press Supply Encourage Information Public
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
Family Awareness Liberals Some Attachment Concede Reaction Led Just Depth Popular Growing
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. Christopher Lasch
Destruction Values Conservatives Side Forces Traditional Traditional Values Contribute Social
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. Christopher Lasch
Daily Unless Embedded Perceptions Structure Shape Ideologies However Conduct Experiences Confirm Cannot Them Appealing Whole
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
Art Mirror Consumerism New Message Make Modern Modern Art Just Which Largely Image
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all. Christopher Lasch
People Live Longer Most Families Nuclear
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch
Family Women Own Extremists Purposes Allowed Most Issue Left Women Are Manipulate Who Right
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. Christopher Lasch
News Liberal Propaganda Advertising Another Represents Form
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. Christopher Lasch
Smile Denial Ideology Realistic Conservatism Rigorous Contemporary Button Symbol
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. Christopher Lasch
Birth Progressive Crisis Moral Concealing New Effect New Order Order Rhetoric Breakdown Social Them Presenting
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed. Christopher Lasch
Conservative Revival Cannot Dismissed
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. Christopher Lasch
Silence Important Matters Conservatism Contemporary Important Matters Intellectual
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