We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival.
Source: The Culture of Narcissism, ch. 3, The Apotheosis of Individualism (1979).
-- Christopher Lasch, (Jun 1 1932-1994), US cultural historian, writer; He wrote The Culture of Narcissism, 1979 and The Lost Art of Political Argument.