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
new-experiences way advertising
Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.
drug needs want
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
smile denial buttons
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
hygiene danger remains
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
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.
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.
roots needs
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
conservative revival
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
information debate understood
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
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.
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.
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.
democracy indifference intolerance
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.