[Korth]

I did a search and this article has not been posted before at Free Republic. The stories of these women are some of the saddest I have ever read. I thought some of you might find this an interesting article.

[thinktwice]

Ayn Rand's masterpiece book -- "Atlas Shrugged" -- is relevant to Britain, too.

[Dan Cooper]

Great article. Thanks for posting it.

[VeritatisSplendor]

my mother in law was born to an English slum, poverty, drudgery, neglect, stays in abusive foster homes and orphanages, a mother who stopped speaking to her when she went to nursing school. one thing she learned at nursing school was that most young women posess adequate underwear and even nightgowns.

after getting her nursing degree she took a job in the US, married and became a physician. she has not been back to england for 30 years.

what opened a window for her, to envision a different life? american movies, depicting a life of prosperity and order. her teachers were nuns, some tyrants and some merciful. they gave her the tools to start on her way out.

just think what window American movies and tv open today.

Mrs VS

[Pining_4_TX]

When you keep people as if they were pets, they turn into animals. Hey, but who cares as long as liberals think they're helping the poor? The libs only goal is to make themselves feel good. And you're right. This is extremely sad.

[LiveFreeOrDieTryin]

Thank your for posting this. I don't read everything on Free Republic, dont' have enough time to do more than scrath the surface, so I frequently miss good material like this. But you've got me hooked into T. Dalrymple now - the man's writing is beautiful and the point he makes hard to argue. Made me think of a modern day short story version of Charles Dickens' picture writing!

[happygrl]

Great Post.

[martin gibson]

This essay is included in Dalrymple's Life at the Bottom.

Get thee to a library (or Amazon...). Dalrymple is a fine read.

[=Intervention=]

Much thanks for posting this. The writing is simply spellbinding.

[mafree]

This is touching and sad. What can be done about it?

[Countyline]

"; but since teachers and parents now regard all cultural manifestations and fields of human knowledge as of equal worth, why waste the effort either to impart or to receive as rigorous, difficult, and unnatural an education as my father received, when any other training (or none at all) would be as good? Worse, such an effort would be to impose an arbitrary standard of worth—a mere disguise for the continuation of the hegemony of a traditional elite—and would thereby undermine the self-confidence of the majority and reinforce social divisions."

"Political correct" speech is creating a path that when walked, results in severe limits on thought. When language is deleted as being 'hate' speech, our concepts diminish, and we lose whole areas of dialogue with every limit imposed in the name of political correctness. Very stupid to walk this way. We may be entering through a different door but the destination is the same. Loss of quality, loss of standards, loss of knowledge, with all its ramifications. Changes brings side effects, many of which are destructive, dangerous and deadly.

Thanks for the thought provoking article.

[livius]

XThe absence of standards, as Ortega y Gasset remarked, is the beginning of barbarism...

Great article, although "sad" is probably too mild a description.

Ortega y Gasset forecast the entire 20th (and, probably, 21st) century. Read his The Revolt of the Masses ("La Rebelión de las Masas") for details.

Also, philosophically inclined persons might like Ortega y Gasset's disciple, Julián Marías. Unfortunately, very little of his work has been translated from the Spanish. I'd love to translate it, but, alas, I don't think there's much of a market for it in modern publisher-land. The truths are too close to home.

[dighton]

I thought some of you might find this an interesting article.

Dalrymple is always worth reading. Thank you for this post.

Going to the dogs

[primeval patriot]

bump to the top

[primeval patriot]

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[primeval patriot]

bump in the night

see also Going to the Dogs

[primeval patriot]

Two and one quarter year bump.