A society of consumers defines choice not as the freedom to choose one course of action over another but as the freedom to choose everything at once. ‘Freedom of choice’ means ‘keeping your options open.’ . . . [S]uch is the open-ended, experimental conception of the good life upheld by the propaganda of commodities, which surrounds the consumer with images of unlimited possibility.
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times (1984)
Use the link below to read a July 2020 article about the prescient work of North American historian and cultural critic CHRISTOPHER LASCH (1932–1994):
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