18 ordspråk av Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch
 …moral paralysis of those who value 'openness' above all (democracy is more than) openness and toleration... In the absence of common standards... tolerance becomes indifference. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. |
| 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. |
| Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. |
| 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. |
| Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. |
| Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. |
| Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. |
| 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. |
| replaced character building with permissiveness, the cure of souls with the cure of the psyche, blind justice with therapeutic justice, philosophy with social science, personal authority with an equally irrational authority of professional experts. It has tempered competition with antagonistic cooperation . . . [I]t has surrounded people with 'symbolically mediated information' and has substituted images of reality for reality itself. Without intending to, it has created new forms of illiteracy. |
| Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity, |
| The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. |
| the moral climate. |
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