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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hygiene danger remains
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
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.
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.
birthday character age
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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.
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.
media addiction belief
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
historical development clients
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
news journalism advertising
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
addiction ownership mass
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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.
conservative revival
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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.