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Christopher Lasch Quotes: 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 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.


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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.
         



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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.



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



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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.





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