Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch
ChristopherLaschwas an American historian, moralist, and social critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth1 June 1932
CountryUnited States of America
Christopher Lasch quotes about
sake clinging despise
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
birthday character age
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
loyalty different logic
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
overcoming-addiction drug our-society
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
order today overcoming
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
past looks prison-life
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
hygiene danger remains
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
media addiction belief
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
silence intellectual important
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
historical development clients
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
smile denial buttons
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
understanding conservative modern
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
names speech trouble
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
new-experiences way advertising
Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.