November 28, 2005
GOTTA GIVE THE CANUCKS THIS MUCH...:
The frivolity of evil (Robert Fulford, Saturday, November 26, 2005 , National Post)
[Theodore] Dalrymple's father, a communist and a businessman, worried about humanity's future but didn't like people and couldn't enter an equal relationship with anyone. This left Dalrymple permanently suspicious of anyone selling grand schemes. More important, his parents fought a long silent war over his head. They never spoke to each other in his presence and "created for themselves a kind of hell on a small domestic scale, as if acting in an unscripted play by Strindberg." For a long time Dalrymple pitied himself. Finally he decided, "One's past is not one's destiny, and it is self-serving to pretend that it is." He decided if in the future he became miserable, it would be his own fault.The single parents he has treated often are at fault -- and they know it. They also know they will not be censured.
...your paper won't run anything as good as Fulford on Dalrymple this week. Posted by Orrin Judd at November 28, 2005 4:15 PM
I'm almost completely finished with the book and while it's a bit uneven, it's mostly very good and often eye-opening.
There is an especially interesting chapter on the relationship between malnourished heroin-addicts, criminal behavior, and time spent in prison.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_oh_to_be.html
His comment that evolution has gone in reverse and that females are "selecting the males least likely to collaborate in successfully perpetuating the species" assumes that male collaboration is required to perpetuate the species. Such collaboration is required to perpetuate civilization, not the species.
Posted by: Brandon at November 28, 2005 5:55 PMHis error is more primary.
Posted by: oj at November 28, 2005 6:03 PMIt is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.
- Carl Jung