Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
