Christopher Lasch
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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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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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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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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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.