I don't rate Lasch like some people here, or on the Internet in general
tho having said, he'd very likely be aghast that reactionaries cite him as a prophet these days
he didn't think tradition was "good" so much as anything that served as a bulwark against corporate hegemony was probably desirable
everything else being subordinated to that concern
hence he looks excellent when it comes to something like woke capitalism and terrible when it comes to basically any type of modern identity politics
He thought it was a bulwark against narcissism, which was corporate but also identitarian. You get some version of this narrative, where the hippies help usher in an era of self-centeredness, not just from Lasch but from Curtis's
Century of the Self, or a tiny bit in Matt's new book on retreat, or in even Mark's writing, not to mention all the Brooklyn alt-left Bernie bro politicking, which makes it weird for it automatically get tied to some longing for Old World Morality.
I think what this is really coming down to is whether there are specific changes in the last century that are "legitimately" objectionable (whatever that means to you, I'm not quite sure) and not just, "wah minorities get all the co-stars in my Netflix series," which I nobody alive with a brain gives a shit about. Indeed, most of the progressive policy changes or civil rights expansions of recent history don't actually affect our target demographic's lives negatively. (A demo that, I agree, is not working class.) But this isn't what I see the folks linked throughout the thread complaining about—they're more likely to cite a dramatic fall in birthrates in Western countries, especially among the white collar class, and talk about how it's harder & less possible to home-own, how the blanket urge to abandon their hometown for a big city maybe wasn't ideal at an individual
or societal level (brain-drain from the countryside). They talk about wanting to start a family but struggling with it as a woman who works. They talk about being disappointed in contemporary art. There is elitism in these stances, they're at least all middle-class perspectives on history and value, but 1) half of them are vanilla
lefty stances, which makes the nrx shade-throwing weird, and 2) it seems over-simplifying to immediately reduce the movement to the worship of some "mythical form" of historical morality when very little of it seems, to me, about this—short of a vision of morality broad enough to encompass architectural styles, and bland enough to protect basic human urges like family making.