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.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The left has lost the common touch.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.