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
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.
inspirational roles restoration
The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.
independent wish needs
The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.
definitions our-society sides
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
family hunting diversity
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.