Christopher Lasch & Religion: The Dark Night of the Soul (5)

[@zainmudassir2964]

God save our souls ❤

[@madebyreuben3402]

You are doing good works on this channel

[@wendyleeconnelly2939]

I really enjoyed listening to this and appreciate the insights. A thought occurs to me about the idea of sin being replaced by the idea of sickness. There is progress in that however, compared to thinking of psychosis as demonic possession rather than realizing it is a brain problem.

[@PM-zw9xz]

You are wonderful!! Thank you very much!!

[@monsieurbojangles2336]

Wow, I really enjoyed listening to this. Thanks for uploading.

[@evgeny9965]

the professional elites have infantilized all oppositional dialogue ...

[@DelhamMouza]

Thank you. I now want to read him.

[@Justin-ph6rx]

Gosh thank u for uploading this.. spectacular series, goodness gracious..

[@tomcotter4299]

Reiff was the person who theorized that we had entered a therapeutic culture.

[@matthewtrevino525]

I wonder if you can get on Ralph Nader's Radio Hour.

[@matthewtrevino525]

I think what Lasch would envision is providing a sort of historical schematic of religious and social movements, health practices, family and community dynamics. But then you get a citizen who has a analytic relationship with religion rather than the natural power relation Neitzche critiques.

[@MagnumInnominandum]

Thank you for your work. These thoughts like many others i have come across over the years and seem to have a similar theme, The maximization of human happiness. It would seem to me that this is a flaw in that troubles the reasoning thereafter, Namely that human "happiness" is an appropriate goal or would be the outcome of a given set of behaviors and actions, beliefs. It would seem that we are fashioned to experience happiness, but not to "be" happy.

[@coreyrichter8092]

Lasch is absolutely not about happiness being a worthy end, but rather, about recovering lost values and institutions (like church & family) as a counterbalance to the corrosive effects of the ever-encroaching market. Your point is definitely true of current pop philosophies of "fulfillment" "aspiration" and "manifesting," but these attitudes are pretty much diametrically opposed to Brother Lasch's.

[@MrZakatista]

Cut to NYC 2023.

[@matthewtrevino525]

I guess the question is what is a spiritual life according to Lasch. I know alot of secular Hindis that have a good practice.

[@the81kid]

Thanks for the presentations. I've found them very interesting. One comment: you say that there's a lot of doubt in science today (as opposed to the 90s), but perhaps there is doubt in science that doesn't suit people's ideology today. The rest of the time, there's a very strong faith in science. For example, in AI. AI is being sold to us with a lot of promises: solve climate change, re-energize the economy, solve global crises, improve the quality of our lives. And a lot of people believe this, and believe that it is inevitable. It's like a new religion to some, and it's even officially being registered as a religion! (www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/) Perhaps it's mainly the ideology of the elite (especially in Silicon Valley), but it seems to me a lot of people believe the narrative of unstoppable technological progress representing social progress: colonizing Mars, AI, technology will solve climate change etc.