Christopher "Kit" Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
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.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
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.
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man. . . and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.