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To: Cronos; ClearCase_guy
I also have enjoyed reading Postman. He is somewhat of a lefty, but not a doctrinaire one.

A similar writer, but one with greater depth (since he wrote about the culture at large, and not just media's relationship to culture), was Christopher Lasch.

Lasch's Women and the Common Life has been my guidebook for having a happy marriage. It isn't a how-to book or self-help book by any means- in fact, Lasch rejected the idea of the "therapeutic model". It's a perspective on how feminism failed women, and failed men, when it could have achieved social goals of lasting value. It's a meditation on how to honor and respect women without ensconsing them on pedastals nor relegating them to "second sex" status.

And Revolt of the Elites was prophetic. Lasch's concerns and fears have been realized, unfortunately.

69 posted on 01/29/2013 10:02:00 AM PST by oblomov
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To: oblomov

I have heard of Lasch, but have never read anything by him. Sounds like I should. Thanks.


70 posted on 01/29/2013 10:25:13 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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