Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

[Mole]

Anyone here a fan of/ or read much of Theodore Dalrymple? (the blokes pen name)

 

Possibly the best book Ive read on modern society and its puzzling failures.

Why does the worst section of society seem to be increasing?

Why doesnt welfare keep people from living in squallor?

Why do women stay with men who abuse them?

 

 

A relly good read looking at the mindset of a section of society that has never had so many opportunities, but refuses most of them for cheap booze and a shag.

Not a happy book, he doesnt write a pesription to cure societies ills, but he does point out a number of the worst symptoms.

 

Heres a short extract.

"..Such redistribution was the goal of the welfare state. But it has not eliminated poverty, despite the vast sums expended, and despite the fact that the poor are now substantially richer

[vodkafan]

This looks well interesting. Thanks.

[Roland Butter]

Well, he certainly sounds like a man with an agenda, I'll give him that. You'd never catch any of those nice, respectable middle class folk beating up their wives.

[aviv chadash]

You'd never catch any of those nice, respectable middle class folk beating up their wives.

Quite.