Posted on 09/18/2006 9:19:28 PM PDT by neverdem
Microwave weapon intensified by sweaty skin
Saving the Battlewagons of the U.S. Marines
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bookmarked for later.
thanks for posting this
Ping. I hope you keep up with Theodore Dalrymple, also.
Wow. This guy has some interesting observations. What a breath of fresh air.
Outstanding article by Dalrymple. Thanks for posting.
These views are also expressed in an essay of Dr. Dalrymple that I posted some time ago. The article was cited by David Brooks of the N.Y.Times as the best journal article of 2004.
He's also made several appearances on C-Span. Come to think of it, I posted two of his essays -- one because it was really prophetic. It should be noted that he's lived in several Islamic societies so he gives not only clinical expertise but his direct personal observations based on actual encounters.
I've been a big fan since I first encountered his stuff in '99 in City_Journal.org.
Nevertheless, one of these days I'm simply going to HAVE to ask him if he took his pen name "Theodore Dalrymple" so as not to be confused with Anthony Daniels, the voice of C3PO in the "Star Wars" movies.
His "Life at the Bottom" eloquently described the universal psychological/moral destruction that the welfare state wreaks on human beings, whether American Indians, Australian Aboriginies or lily-white Londoners.
As a humerous aside, for you hipsters, I think of my favorite episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (on the FX channel) where Dee and Dennis decide to take advantage of unemployment benefits to spend a few months on self-improvement and pursuing their dreams of making it in Hollywood. Instead, they become crack addicts...
BFL. its late
Exposing the bankrupt sociology of the Left - to provide all biological needs from cradle to grave does not set people free to invent themselves. Instead, they are bereft until they find something greater than themselves to which to contribute.
It is not only individuals but whole cultures which must aspire to something greater - the culture as a whole needs purpose or it will suffer and decay.
Bump.
This interview covers so much ground about Western society in amazingly few words. Theodore Dalrymple understands the world from a social and structural rather than a strictly political perspective; I always enjoy his pieces in NR.
...in doing so, however, he invited confusion with the travel writer William Dalrymple, who on the whole is rather better known in the UK.
Bump for later
bttt
Interesting point. I think that if one examines Islam, a lot of it is based on fear of/desire for dominance over women. If you're a Muslim male, things are just fine: you can have multiple wives (unless you're poor, in which case you can't have any at all because the richer Muslims have taken them all), you can sleep with anything that moves and have 20-minute "pleasure marriages" with prostitutes, and your women basically have to stay in your home and tend to you when you decide to favor them with your presence. And this is not because of anything you've done to merit it, but simply because you're male. Mohammed's entire system is almost obsessively based on the subjugation of women. Very weird.
I've kinda wondered about that myself.
I read somewhere that labor is considered demeaning to many Muslims. They do not want to be viewed as belonging among those decendents of Adam and Eve who were condemned to toil, according to Genesis, when mankind was thrown out of Eden.
According to the author, some Muslim foreign college students in the US, who need to earn money, will choose a low-paying clerical job over a high paying job which involves significant labor.
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