The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. – Christopher Lasch
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. – Christopher Lasch
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. – Christopher Lasch
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. – Christopher Lasch