A society that has made ostalgia 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.

Quote by Christopher Lasch

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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...

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can...

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist...

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist...

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate...

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate...

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature...

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature...

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...

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion...

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion...

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the...

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the...

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with...

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with...

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...

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...

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families...

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families...

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and...

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and...