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Theodore Dalrymple: The Frivolity of Evil
City Journal ^ | Autumn 2004 | Theodore Dalrymple

Posted on 11/08/2004 11:45:36 AM PST by quidnunc

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1 posted on 11/08/2004 11:45:37 AM PST by quidnunc
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What a truly excellent analysis of the situation. Enormously disturbing, but extremely accurate.


2 posted on 11/08/2004 12:01:06 PM PST by livius
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Theodore is also a frequent writer of National Review magazine and I would give him the highest recommendation in anything he writes, especially about the prison environment. He had a particularly eye-opening and horrifying article in National Review on prison rape. Anyone thinking about committing any crime should read his article.


3 posted on 11/08/2004 12:04:25 PM PST by smiley (Watch out Dems! I'm a William F. Buckley Conservative!!)
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To: quidnunc
Original sin is the speech of sin and still the same today. Sin, as a living creature that is a speech, because it can create nothing, and is the only speech fallen man (the learning of that speech through the serpent was the fall, empowered now by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...) has or knows, must fight as if the universe were closed and had limited resources. It fights through the human heart for limited emotional resources against every other heart. Arbitrary, unpredicatable timing, but predictible what it will do and how far it will go to expand. Living things are not machines that do everything in perfect intervals. Sin is always sudden because it is alive.

But then so is genuine new birth in Jesus Christ by the Word of God. And permament.

4 posted on 11/08/2004 12:11:07 PM PST by telder1
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He also writes for UK Spectator (spectator.co.uk). Any link to NR article (or approx. date)? Did a quick search on FR and saw nothing. Thanks


5 posted on 11/08/2004 12:12:53 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: quidnunc

Wow! What an excellent essay! The author is so on target that it actually hurts. Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 11/08/2004 12:13:10 PM PST by Gingersnap
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To: quidnunc

Great article. Thanks for posting.


7 posted on 11/08/2004 12:13:46 PM PST by Huntress
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To: telder1
I have no clue as to what you said in your post #4. Do you?
8 posted on 11/08/2004 12:13:50 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: telder1

Go away. Grow a brain. Use it. Come back.


9 posted on 11/08/2004 12:16:46 PM PST by Kiss Me Hardy
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To: smiley

Dr. Dalrymple also published a book called "Life at the Bottom" a year or two ago. It is a fascinating but depressing analysis of the British underclass.


10 posted on 11/08/2004 12:16:55 PM PST by Huntress
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To: quidnunc

bttttttt


11 posted on 11/08/2004 12:17:49 PM PST by dennisw (G_D - against Amelek for all generations.)
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To: Kiss Me Hardy
Go away. Grow a brain. Use it. Come back.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to see that. I was begining to wonder about my sanity. Maybe everybody else got it but me.

12 posted on 11/08/2004 12:20:24 PM PST by Graybeard58
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stellar as always from him


13 posted on 11/08/2004 12:20:38 PM PST by dennisw (G_D - against Amelek for all generations.)
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To: 1066AD

I think if you go to NRO (National Review Online) you might be able to do a search. This article came out about 1-2 years ago...always a good read with him.


14 posted on 11/08/2004 12:20:52 PM PST by smiley (Watch out Dems! I'm a William F. Buckley Conservative!!)
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fzob

great article

15 posted on 11/08/2004 12:24:41 PM PST by Popman (Democrat Party Political Values are Condescension, Hypocrisy, Bigotry)
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To: quidnunc

what a truly great article. really scary, though. does it describe the blue better than the red states? I think it does.


16 posted on 11/08/2004 12:27:15 PM PST by beebuster2000 (waiting waiting waiting)
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Brilliant stuff. Dalrymple is, I believe, retiring to the south of France after a storied medical and journalistic career. I wish he'd have come here; he'd be welcome.

...for in any case it is the function of the state to ameliorate by redistributive taxation the material effects of individual irresponsibility...

That really is the key to understanding why redistribution of wealth in the pursuit of "social justice" can doom a society. It does not only reward failure, it rewards self-destruction and the destruction of everything around you.

17 posted on 11/08/2004 12:32:11 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Great article. So true. It's tough to find articles so pointed in calling a spade a spade. Could we get him to write about the societal problems in the US? I've got a sister who got PG by two different men two different times, lost custody of the oldest, is now living on disability, her child gets medicare and she votes based on whose programs will give her the most. And get this--she has a degree from one of the elite universities in the north. HMMMM...Choices without consequences, so it seems, but when it all gets added up at the end...unhappy, oh, 'scuse me, depression.


18 posted on 11/08/2004 12:40:26 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: telder1

With Heaven as my witness, I have NO idea what you are trying to say.

Would you care to revise your statement?


19 posted on 11/08/2004 12:45:23 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (The Hubris of the DUmb: "It's our dawn, and the freepers' sunset." ........BWAHAHAHAHA!!!)
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To: Fzob

bump


20 posted on 11/08/2004 12:47:13 PM PST by Popman (Democrat Party Political Values are Condescension, Hypocrisy, Bigotry)
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