What do you think of Theodore Dalrymple?

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I've just been reading 'Our Culture, What's Left of It'. I just wondered whether someone more informed about Dalrymple might be able to give me their opinion on him. Thanks.

― m-ry-nn (m-ry-nn), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like, ... 'so I can adopt it as my own'. Well, exactly.

― m-ry-nn (m-ry-nn), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

is he the doctor who wrote things about the plebs for 'the spectator' before moving to -- oh the lols -- FRANCE.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

I chose the disagreeable neighborhood in which I practiced because, medically speaking, the poor are more interesting, at least to me, than the rich: their pathology is more florid, their need for attention greater. Their dilemmas, if cruder, seem to me more compelling, nearer to the fundamentals of human existence.

What. A. Cunt.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

i hate doctors.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

He is a little monotonous.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

"The first is that hatred is a much more powerful political emotion than love, and is therefore also a stronger motive for action. It is my guess, for example, that Mr Brown hates the rich much more than he loves the poor, and that anti-racists, for example, hate whites, even when they are white themselves, more than they love members of minorities."

-Theodore Dalrymple, The Times 16th May 2006

Mr. Dalrymple may be onto something. He certainly seems to loathe the uncultured more than he loves culture.

― Fluffy Bear is a man. Do not shoot him. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I used to read him occasionally when I perused The Spectator at college. He's entertainingly curmodgeonly and misanthropic to read but if I ever chanced to talk with him in person I think I'd be sorely tempted to send him to the hospital somehow.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Certainly misanthropic and amusing...

to wit
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj-poppycock.htm

― one six oh (one six oh), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

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