We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.
Christopher LaschEnvironmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
Christopher LaschIt is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Christopher Lasch