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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sides conservative destruction
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
democracy indifference intolerance
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
encouragement jobs information
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
common-sense community progress
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
people nuclear nuclear-families
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
people ordinary prejudice
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
winning brain enjoyment
It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
culture world narcissist
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
peculiar bourgeoisie horror
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.
development way consumerism
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
believe animal men
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.
order innovation conservation
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
past important today
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.
technique masters owners
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.