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    1. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 28 Dec 2020

      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

      9 replies 5 retweets 85 likes
    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @lionel_trolling

      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.”

      2 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
    3. Alex Colston‏ @re_colston 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @lionel_trolling

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @re_colston @yeselson

      lasch kind of is dad-like, sometimes i read it and im like this is my dad in a bad mood

      4 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @lionel_trolling @re_colston @yeselson

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    6. Alex Colston‏ @re_colston 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling @yeselson

      Jordan Peterson is this, too, though it’s total imposture.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @re_colston @lionel_trolling @yeselson

      Yeah, his daughter really flipped the script on that one, in a horrifying (if also hilarious) way.

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @re_colston @lionel_trolling

      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.)

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @re_colston @lionel_trolling

      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)

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @yeselson @re_colston

      pretty expansive use of the term liberal there

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @lionel_trolling @yeselson @re_colston

      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.

      10:43 AM - 28 Dec 2020
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        2. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 28 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @yeselson @re_colston

          eh

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Dec 2020
          Replying to @lionel_trolling @yeselson @re_colston

          It's a theory!

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Sarah Grynpas‏ @SarahGrynpas 28 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling and

          Not sure I agree with that, except in the sense that we want an authority figure and it’s rare to conceive of a woman that way. I don’t think Bernie or Biden are symptoms of this at all though.

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