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In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal "growth" and… — Christopher Lasch

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In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.

Christopher Lasch
The Culture of Narcissism · 1979
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DecadencePersonal growth
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Sociology
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1979
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Christopher Lasch
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Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. W. W. Norton & Company, 1979, ch. 10.

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