Christopher Lasch Society Quotations

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.

Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,

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.

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

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.