Christopher Lasch Quotes & Sayings

“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”

“The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.”

“It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.”

“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”

“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.”

“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”