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Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
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Men seek in play the difficulties and demands—both intellectual and physical—they no longer find in work.
Christopher Lasch • The Culture of Narcissism
When hyper-individualism kicked into gear in the 1960s, people experimented with new ways of living that embraced individualistic values. Today we are crawling out from the wreckage of that hyper-individualism—which left many families detached and unsupported—and people are experimenting with more connected ways of living, with new shapes and varie... See more
theatlantic.com • David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Myself and people my age have been trained under the illusion that we can effectively eliminate any and all friction from our lives. We can work from home, Amazon prime everything we need, swipe through a limitless array of mediocre dates, text our therapist, and have a person go to the grocery store for us when we don’t feel like it, all while con... See more
Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem
resisting the rule of the algorithm takes energy and creativity and courage, and the risk for our culture is that our technological skill and our cultural exhaustion are working together, defending decadence and closing off escape.
Ross • Can We Resist the Age of the Algorithm?
A brilliant 2015 essay by the economist Steven Horwitz argued that free play prepares children for the “art of association” that Alexis de Tocqueville said was the key to the vibrancy of American democracy; he also argued that its loss posed “a serious threat to liberal societies.” A generation prevented from learning these social skills, Horwitz w... See more
The Atlantic • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
All across American society, from the right to the left, from sociologists to novelists to feminists to black liberationists, postwar thinkers were united in a quest to recover the autonomous self from the morass of mass society.
Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
En 1969, Peter Wiles décrivait l’idée centrale du populisme de la manière suivante : « la vertu réside dans le peuple, qui est majoritaire, et dans ses traditions collectives181 ». On ne saurait donner meilleure définition anticipée de la conception que se fait Christopher Lasch de ce phénomène. Le problème est qu’il identifie le peuple à une entit
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