Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of by Theodore Dalrymple

By Theodore Dalrymple

In now not with a Bang yet a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the degree of our cultural decline, with unique consciousness to Britain-its bureaucratic clutter, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless young-all pursued within the identify of democracy and freedom. He exhibits how terrorism and the transforming into numbers of Muslim minorities have replaced our public existence. additionally listed below are Mr. Dalrymple's trenchant observations on artists and ideologues, and at the remedy of criminals and the mentally disturbed, his zone of scientific curiosity.

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In his view, ‘The future of industrial society, and in particular of English society… is a future in which subsistence and security shall be guaranteed for the Proletariat, but shall be guaranteed… by the establishment of that Proletariat in a status really, though not nominally, servile’. The people lose ‘that tradition of… freedom, and are most powerfully inclined to [the] acceptance of [their servile status] by the positive benefits it confers’. And this is precisely what has happened to the large proportion of the British population that has been made dependent on the welfare state.

Presumably he means that they gave him the opportunity to learn standard English, even if they did not speak it themselves. Moreover, it is a sociological truism that children tend to speak not merely the language but the dialect of their parents. I don’t think she would have been favourably impressed by Professor Pinker’s disdainful grammatical latitudinarianism – the latitudinarianism that, in some British schools and universities, now extends not only to grammar but to spelling, as a friend of mine discovered recently.

What is one to conclude from this? Spending on the NHS has increased by two and a half times in the space of ten years; yet it is hard to see any corresponding improvement in the service, other than in the standard of living of those who work in it. In other words, you can get away with anything if the timing is right. He wanted to appeal – and succeeded in appealing – to two constituencies at once: those who wanted criminals locked up, and those who saw crime as the natural consequence of social injustice, a kind of inchoate protest against the conditions in which they lived.

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