It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Quote by Christopher Lasch

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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them...

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them...

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as...

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as...

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

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

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they...

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they...

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

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

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides...

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides...

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its...

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its...

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is...

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is...

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a...

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a...

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the...

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the...

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of...

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of...

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as...

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as...

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some...

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some...

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the...

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the...

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from...

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from...

The left has lost the common touch.

The left has lost the common touch.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply...

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply...

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a...

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a...