Christopher Lasch
  • Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

  • Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

  • We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

  • In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

  • 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.