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" 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
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" Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. "
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" The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. "
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" 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. "
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" Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. "
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" Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. "
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" 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. "
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" It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. "
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" 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. "
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" The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. "
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" Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. "
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" The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. "
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