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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that i

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. – Christopher Lasch

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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. – Christopher Lasch

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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. – Christopher Lasch

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