Theodore Dalrymple - Our Culture, What's Left of It - June 2005 (1 of 5)

[mucalinda]

The greatest writer of our time.

[Jumpingflashlight]

I am atheist and I agree greatly with a great many of Tony's ideas. "Life at the Bottom" was a real shocker to me! Truth really is stranger than fiction!

[aldoreshgaramok]

myron magnet looks awesome.

look at those killer sideburns.

i hope i look like that when i am gray and learned

[Johnnyloo64]

Of course he meant "nom de guerre." What a humiliating slip!

[dpju1986]

Theodore Dalrymple is a pig ignorant ridiculous old fool. He is not a great intellectual, as some here seem to think, and his opinions are unsustainable reactionary bilge. Dalrymple's hatred of poor people and modern society in general is nothing more than snobbery and its a shame that so many are taken in by his tedious pseudo intellectual justification for this sub-tabloid bile.

[jamesjeffreypaul]

One of the greatest living essayists in the English language. Thanks so much for posting.

[2Touchstone]

That fella at the beginning looks like Great Uncle Bulgaria.

[papasitoman]

Why so intellectuals always have weird hair or facial hair? And his name is Myron Magnet? Weird. Cool but weird. My name is Mac Itunes!

[Paganzer]

Thank you so, so much!

[MewHamHead]

The toy master has two pairs of spectacles.

[KajiCarson]

Careful, don't make fun of him; he'll send his army of tin soldiers after you.

[Jitpring]

Along with Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) and James V. Schall, there is no more important writer today. Many thanks for uploading.

[2Touchstone]

Eh? The Pope is one of the three most important writers today?

[Jitpring]

@2Touchstone Correct.

[2Touchstone]

What has he written?

[tjmacaus17]

@2Touchstone

life at the bottom

our culture whats left of it

the examined life

spoilt rotton

romancing opiates /(junk medicine)

in praise of prejudice

the new vichy syndrome

not with a bang but a whimper

[neighbour666]

@Jitpring Sorry? Ratzinger? Pardon?

[Jitpring]

@neighbour666 What part don't you understand?

[neighbour666]

@Jitpring Your utter stupidity is what I have difficulty in coming to terms with. Oh, sorry, my mistake, your a religious nutter. No further conversation will be entered into. To argue with a fool makes two fools, especially if they're a fan of the Church of Paedophila. Adieu.

[neighbour666]

@Jitpring Your utter stupidity is what I have difficulty in coming to terms with. Oh, sorry, my mistake, your a religious nutter. No further conversation will be entered into. To argue with a fool makes two fools, especially if they're a fan of the Church of Paedophilia. Adieu.

[Jitpring]

@neighbour666 Ah yes, typical atheist-herd emotionalism. Very fashionable, and very fashionably ironic. Congratulations! By the way, truly open-minded and rational atheists will study these books on today's exquisitely chic atheist apostles:

The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, by Edward Feser

Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, by David B. Hart

God is No Delusion, by Thomas Crean

I used to be just like you.

[neighbour666]

@Jitpring I used to be like you too, until I was 13 years old and became disgusted with the physical and mental abuse - not to mention the utter nonsense I’d received from the Catholic clergy. I can assure you I try my best to keep an open mind, but not so much that my brain falls out. So now, having spent 63 years searching for the truth, the last place I would think of looking for it is in anything to do with Ratzinger and his cohorts; I prefer to stick with rational sources of information.

[neighbour666]

@Jitpring I do, however, share your taste in music and your admiration for Dr Daniels; I have several of his books and have attended one of his presentations (this clip doesn't do him justice, by the way.) I shall also try to access your recommended reading material, just in case I find something that makes sense. Really. Incidentally, I have to take issue with your mention of 'herd emotionalism'. Pots and kettles comes to mind, what with Catholicism, innit. Pax.

[Jitpring]

@neighbour666 I'm glad that you'll read those books. As you'll see in the negative reviews, the atheist "freethinker" herd invaded and slammed those books without, clearly, ever reading them. So rational! As for herd emotionalism in Catholiciism, I don't deny that this is present in much post-Vatican II crypto-Protestant movements - Charismatic Renewal for example. I, however, being a traditionalist, reject the errors of Vatican II and all post-Vatican II wretched sentimentality. Pax.