“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
Age
“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
NatureAll Quotes by Christopher Lasch
“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
Success“The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.”
Hope“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.”
Family“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.”
Family“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.”
Politics“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.”
Smile“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
Family“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”
Politics“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.”
Society“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
Wisdom“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”
Change“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”
Family“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”
Family“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“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”
Family“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
Family“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
Family“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
Society“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.”
Family