In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
Christopher LaschThe effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher LaschThe left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
Christopher LaschThe 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