Our current situation demonstrates the extremes of what Christopher Lasch leaned into in his book The Culture of Narcissism. How did we get here? Lasch’s answers take us deeper than the typical observations of the day, which mainly dwell at the surface. In this video, which primarily deals with ideas from chapter 4 of Lasch’s book, we find an explanation for the loose hold many people have on the truth, the deep skepticism about facts, which leads to the childish acting out that we are seeing more and more of, as well as the more serious expression of discontent of protest and riot. Lasch’s views here are not all of even his answer, let along THE answer, as to how we got here, but they deal with one dimension of it that is often overlooked–our often meaningless and unthinking work and our highly “mediated” selves. DFW essay E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction: https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf Here’s the URL to the Political Philosophy Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/60814… For more from me: https://lauriemjohnson.com/ https://politicalphilosophy.video.blog/
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