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Unraveling Christopher Lasch's Minimal Self with Elijah Emery
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The Importance of Nostalgia
I think I found myself revisiting a lot of these like end sections of the most important essays in order to kind of understand the minimal self and then also understand the apparent turn towards Christianity. And what he seems to like do is, you know, and this is tied up with the whole narcissism thesis that it's, it's a form of regression. To get around it in his revolution obsolete he talks about how any new revolutionary culture will need to pick up things from the past basically. It's actually having read that essay now about five times it's ambiguous. It's like he doesn't know what he thinks about that. But why he's so useful for both the right and the
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