Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch
ChristopherLaschwas an American historian, moralist, and social critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth1 June 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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attachment growing depth
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
children demand toys
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
art mirrors messages
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
drug television links
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
heart upgrading taste
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
lasts three collapse
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
common-sense paine left
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
spiritual religious separation
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
news events commodity
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
symbolism feelings purpose
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
information debate understood
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
revolutionary addict
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
common lost left
The left has lost the common touch.
parent rejection grace
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.