"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment."
-Christopher Lasch
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"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.“
-Christopher Lasch
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"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
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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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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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