The victim’s book, Out of the Darkness, is a classic of a kind. Though her narrative was ghostwritten, Tina Nash was clearly allowed to speak in her own voice: that of an uneducated but not unintelligent member of the British underclass. Nash expresses herself unguardedly and artlessly, as if unaware of what she reveals to the reader about her way of thinking and the subculture in which she has lived her life. It is precisely because of this unself-consciousness that her book is so instructive: it should be required reading for those who believe that degradation in modern society is simply a matter of insufficient money.
A great book - explains it ALL:
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
by Theodore Dalrymple
Dalmrymple nails it.
We’re circling the bowl at this point.
I have a family, and it scares me that everything I do to prepare is probably not sufficient to insulate them from this.
Question to FReepers: Some folks say that with the accelerating and inevitable decay of our society we should, at this point, seek to further the process so we can start the rebuilding process all the sooner.
The belief is that we are too far gone, and only a complete collapse can allow us to wrench power from the entrenched elites and thus bring about a new era of personal freedom.
Thoughts?
This is what a society based on the immediate gratification of every base appetite looks like. Some people think the adoption of this lifestyle is race-specific, but that’s a deceptive correlation.
Lust is a nearly universal human experience; what is new is the complete loss of awareness of its status as a cardinal sin and of the disastrous consequences likely to follow when it becomes the principal guide of action.
"The wages of sin are death" is something we need to understand not only as a statement of spiritual, but material consequences as well.
Nor is the misunderstanding unique to the Western tradition. Altogether too many people believe that the Law of Karma is about some supernatural retribution. It isn't: it's a statement that good actions improve the world, and bad actions have bad consequences.
Sometime around 500 BC Heraclitus observed that "character is destiny." The constant habit of sin and the negative reinforcement of the bad side of her character is as much responsible for this poor woman's fate as the random stranger who repeatedly brutalized her. He could have been literally anyone from Britain's [or America's] criminal underclass, and was nothing more [in her side of the story] than the executioner's noose.