““Although Lasch remained firmly on the left, he argued that the left’s energies were increasingly misdirected. Whereas the radical left was still railing against the “authoritarian personality,” such a personality was no longer dominant in the postmodern world.37 In its place was the now-dominant narcissist, who did not try to force his values on others because he had no real values of his own aside from the desire to acquire goods.””
