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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understanding conservative modern
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
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.
roots needs
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
party common-sense lost-friendship
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
sea play people
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.