Christopher Lasch

"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."

"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."

"We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change."

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

"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."

"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."