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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believe animal men
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.
order innovation conservation
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
past important today
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.
technique masters owners
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
issues manipulation purpose
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
want advertising economic
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
ruins alternatives improvement
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
perception shapes embedded
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
children lying desire
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
addiction ownership mass
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
law support levels
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
news journalism advertising
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
lying wings political
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.
wings religion-and-politics right-wing
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.