“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.”
– Christopher Lasch
“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.”
– Christopher Lasch
“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.”
– Christopher Lasch
“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”
– Christopher Lasch
“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”
– Christopher Lasch
“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”
– Christopher Lasch
“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”
– Christopher Lasch
“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
– Christopher Lasch