Christopher Lasch

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. ”

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. ”

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. ”

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. ”

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. ”

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ”

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger. ”