Christopher Lasch
Historian and social critic (1932 to 1994) whose The Culture of Narcissism (1979) argued that American life had turned toward therapeutic self-concern and away from any sense of historical continuity.
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Their wordsWe are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future.
↗The Culture of Narcissism (W. W. Norton, 1979)archive.org All 3 from this book
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Their wordsThe contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious.
↗The Culture of Narcissism (W. W. Norton, 1979)archive.org All 3 from this book
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Their wordsPeople today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.
↗The Culture of Narcissism (W. W. Norton, 1979)archive.org All 3 from this book