Christopher Lasch: Bring Back Democratic Citizenship (4)

[@tom123b]

thank you. Lasch is the best example of William Blake's quote "I will not cease from mental fight" that I know of recently.

[@dandiacal]

I love the fact you go from Carl Jung to Christopher Lasch in one series. Keep doing what you are doing!

[@neilwalsh3977]

This chapter is unbelievably insightful - the 'answers' are there if we want them

[@rodneyjames2344]

I like this series, thanks for your input!

[@myla6135]

Sadly here in the UK we have taken up the American way of having televised political debates before an election and, just like in the USA, the format of these debates is determined by the media. The debates are simply awful. You don't learn a thing. If the media person in charge is hopeless (which is often the case because they are usually chosen for their gender and/or other physical characteristic rather than the fact they are any good) they often end up with candidates talking over each other and never really espousing anything but sound-bites. I don't watch them anymore (just catch the headlines in the next day's news) because they make our politicians look like performing seals. Embarrassing!

[@Rablewski]

Same in France. It's very disturbing to see how much Revolt of the Elites is an accurate depiction of today french democracy. One just have to change Dem/Rep to Gauche/ Droite and it still works pretty well.

[@Rablewski]

I've been fooled, i believed a cat smugled into my house. Great videos, thank you for your work.

[@matthewtrevino525]

He who pays the Piper gets to call the song. Nice ending.

[@bobf9749]

I agree with Lasch about the corporate - and government - takeover of the universities. I think, though, he overlooks the fact that the radical professors influence future government bureaucrats who shape policy.

[@russianbot8576]

lasch make some good points but i think the reliance on third place is ignoring a lot of exclusion in such places that prevents the ideal of what he means by it. it seems like an oversight, puzzling because he is also quick to point out that history and its effects are lost in academic study of pragmatic subjects (STEM and the like). but on a lot of other points he seems spot on, like academia devoured by corporations, social criticism being reviled. but i agree with postman a little more the lasch on the perspective of tv media for poisoning the ability of discussion. and it shapes it too--while people may watch debates online, they still frame it as 'who won' in the comments and replies. there is still discussion like sides as sport teams, reflected as well in electoral politics, made exceptionally easy by a two-party first past the post system.

[@neilwalsh3977]

Look at the Grunge movement. It was ''yuppified'' for commercial sale.

[@neilwalsh3977]

And the next chapter, I think are oracular.

[@neilwalsh3977]

Re labour, remember Jamie Dimon excoriating schools and students for not having sufficient skill. No, Jamie, you just don't want to employ them and there's no demand for widespread college employment

[@dieharddougie]

I would challenge that the right is getting what it wants...I am right wing and I do not see college as a pragmatic enterprise rather away of formally instruction on the human condition. Engineering , physics or other higher scientific disciplines should be relegated to training programs but not universities. At this point if the companies want work bees then they need to pay for it internally. If there is some esoteric physics research that needs to be done then let a private patron pay for or it be self directed. To put it midly the right is not aligned to the corporation anymore as the corporation supports non traditional living and the promotion of a consumptive lifestyle. The best worker drone is a single gay man in manhattan who loves to party.

[@fire.smok3]

I hear a cat :)

[@tunesmithdainfinitytunegat1691]

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[@tunesmithdainfinitytunegat1691]

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