"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
-Christopher Lasch
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"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.“
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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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"In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective."
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"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."
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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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"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."
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