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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order innovation conservation
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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.
ghetto order class
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.
order moral birth
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
commodity cultural exchange life past quickly society suggestion
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.
society success
Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,
daily experience individual society supply teaches toys
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
reality media logic
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
attitude school abortion
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
believe people feminism
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
defense definitions conviction
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
men emotional discrepancies-between
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.
doom left environmentalism
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
conservative revival
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.