Christopher Lasch
» Debate » “Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.”
» Knowledge » “Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.”
» Media » “The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.”
» Men and Women » “Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich
