i think you can read Lasch profitably, he's an interesting and fun writer if a bit cranky, but he's not the rosetta stone of the world we live in now and the cult of personality is annoying
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No less than Richard Rorty himself told me this in person. Walking around UVA 25 years ago, he said to me (after having written a critical essay about Lasch in the NY’er): “I don’t get it what the thing is with this guy. Like his admirers think he had ‘the answer’ or something.”
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Pretty good story. I think... his pointing out that the critique of father is a scapegoat, that self-involvement is a political nonstarter, that form and order is necessary... can all be a very satisfying things to read if you grow up in a liberal household.
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lasch kind of is dad-like, sometimes i read it and im like this is my dad in a bad mood
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There's a lot of hunger for a dad who will fix things these days -- you see it among Trump supporters most clearly but also Biden & Bernie supporters.
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Jordan Peterson is this, too, though it’s total imposture.
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Yeah, his daughter really flipped the script on that one, in a horrifying (if also hilarious) way.
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It’s true, I mean there’s a lot of admiration there too, and her book is actually very interesting, in a way he would have found congenial (I think it came out after his death, although maybe not? Don’t remember now.)
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But I'd argue that liberals (mindful of the lack of normative structure in their worldview) have always hungered for a big daddy who can spank them (variously Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, the Frankfurt boys, Lasch, Peterson)
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pretty expansive use of the term liberal there
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Not that these figures are liberal (they are mostly anti-liberal) but that liberals have been attracted to them out of a kind of patriarchal hunger.
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