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«The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
| Keywords:
debate, encourage, public debate, public press, supply, the press
«Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.»
«Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
| Keywords:
by-product, debate, debated, debating, information, Information the, More information, precondition, product, seen, understood, usually
«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.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
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bourgeoisie, comparison, contemporary, features, obsessed, stupefaction, tribute
«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.»
«Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.»
«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.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
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Better Than Life, marketable, nostalgia, repudiate, repudiated, repudiates, Repudiating, suggestion
«Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
«Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
«We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
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