Posted on 12/19/2013 7:00:34 PM PST by Perdogg
Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.” “Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.” “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
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“What was Dickens really doing when he wrote A Christmas Carol? Answer: He was weighing in on one of the central economic debates of his time, the one that raged between Thomas Malthus and one of the disciples of Adam Smith.”
What nonsense. The idea that Dickens was directly trying to deal with Malthusian theory is so far out in the weeds as to be laughable. Dickens lived and wrote at a time of social reform in Britain. There were work houses and debtors prisons (of which he knew first hand). His desire (as oft stated in his works and in his personal life) was to improve conditions for those less fortunate (and not part of the landed class).
Modernist critical thinking always makes a mess when trying to analyze writings from today’s understanding.
a classic… have it on dvd
I like that one too….
That’s my favorite too. Since it’s rarely broadcast we bought the dvd.
Here it is on YouTube. I streamed it via Apple TV and we all watched it last night.
Bob’s Your Uncle!
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