Christopher Lasch

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

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

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.