In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. – Christopher Lasch
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. – Christopher Lasch
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. – Christopher Lasch
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
Heres my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then theres this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. – Carl Hiaasen