Countering The Counter Culture | Theodore Dalrymple
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- In both Britain and Australia, the impact of the 1960s social revolution has been felt on the lowest rungs of society; where family breakdown, welfare dependence, drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and child maltreatment are most prevalent.
Yet the default cultural assumptions - held widely across politics, government, the media, and academia - are still shaped by the socially permissive ethics of the 60s: the idea that the erosion of traditional restraint on social behaviour represents an unadulterated victory for personal liberation.
Many in positions of authority thus struggle to acknowledge the social reality of dysfunction and degradation, let alone summon the will to do anything about the social chaos that is staring them in the face.
This special CIS event - featuring acclaimed UK commentator Theodore Dalrymple and CIS Senior Research Fellow Dr Jeremy Sammut - will discuss how and why the counter-culture must be countered so that ‘society’ stops presiding over the chaos and starts to eradicate it instead.
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It's refreshing to hear something full of common sense in our times when nonsense reigns supreme.
you wouldn't even believe how insane the world has become in 2021.
I agree with his comments on Ibsen's play. I was incensed to watch an episode of Insight on SBS where the theme was mothers who had walked out on their children. One mother was almost boastful, having deluded herself that she was almost some kind of hero for choosing to leave her children as she believed it had made her a better person. Such selfishness and lack of self-awareness is astonishing and no doubt that same woman would frown in disapproval if it had been a father who had walked out on his children instead.
Very insightful comments. Behind that mask of empathy and generosity of Spirit hides something very dark and cruel. You can be absolutely sure that the People who wrote this will be for the usual leftist prescription of massive Taxation which is still not even Close to fund the gargantuan spending that should given to the poor. That not all the Money on this earth could cure what this Kind of "thinking" has done to the poor let alone abolish the squalor among the poor is a lesson the Western intelligentsia has still to learn and maybe never will because it will a real loss of faith for them. Yet I cannot think about anything more cruel to a poor child that is efforts to better himself or herself are of no moral value and thus he could as well be a hoodloom. My "Damascus Moment" were the rape gangs in Rotherham etc. as in so many respects I find the 60s Revolution behind the factors that enabled this horrific crimes be it the extinction of functioning families or anti-racism be it normalizing sexuality among not even 16 year olds or drug-tacking.
I also agree, with the caveat that Ibsen caused quite a stir back in the day. The play caused August Strindberg to write a short story with the same name and become enemy with Ibsen for the rest of his life.
I have worked in community health for the past decade and I am starting to come to the conclusion that too many people are simply giving up, not even trying to lead worthwhile and productive lives. They can't be bothered raising their own children, can't be bothered trying to seriously find employment, they can't even be bothered looking after their own health- its all because they see it as somebody else's job and responsibility. I know families who are now entering their fourth successive generation of total welfare dependence. The child are raised to expect to go onto welfare for their entire lives and they expect everything to be supplied to them- free, instantly and without any obligation on their part. It is not sustainable and sooner or later the whole welfare system is going to crash. I don't know when but I do know it will be painful and chaotic.
Peter Hill ....Well said.
Brilliant purely 100%
Welfare state benefits supplimented by crime
It was once said that the fact that married couples should keep their promises to each other is a sign to society in general that promises are meant to be kept.
Supporting the status quo is why we have such extreme counter culture movements. Conservatives need to start recognizing that we've moved into a status quo that isn't worth preserving. And there's no way of getting back while simultaneously importing new cultures. This is a priori, but a politically untenable position.
I've been thinking a lot recently about how conservatives for the last generation, and their continuous support for status quo, were implicitly signing off on all the more rotten elements on the Western world. Because they didnt believe it, or they were just reacting defensively to counter-culture elements. But in doing so they helped create the malcontents, easy picking for sociopaths to manipulate and control. Neither side had anything like a balanced perspective, and that just made the divisions deeper.
out of wedlock kids are setting society back at alarming rates.
It's a sadness that his final sentence didn't acknowledge the book, 'The Sprit Level' (I am not its author or publisher!).
Didn't Marx have an affair with the family maid?
If I recall correctly, yes. I think he turfed her out onto the cold streets after impregnating her and completely neglected his responsibilities regarding the matter.
Yes Marx did father a child with the long time maid of the family and Engels took the blame but Engels admitted the deception just before he died. Less the illegitimate child, there are a number of parallels that can be drawn between Bernie Sanders and Marx.
He also stated that women were property and that communism is a despiritualized humanism
@@kevinloughrey5135 A number of parallels can be drawn, indeed. But let's acknowledge Marx had much more talent.
Does he know his glasses are on his head?
LOL I noticed that
Probably not. Wouldn't surprise me if they weren't even his glasses.
Yawn...
Yes. He obviously doesn't need them for reading but for distant sight.
LOL! I was thinking the same, although Dalrymple could be wearing clown makeup and a chicken hat, and I'd still be taking him seriously with his refreshing views and sharpness of intellect, haha
Dalrymple seems to think that restrictions on drug use benefit the poor by protecting them from their own stupidity while merely inconveniencing the rich. Let me offer a conflicting view. My wife and I live at the brink of starvation and she is seriously ill. Since President Trump decided he wanted to do something the moral panic known as the "opioid crisis" here is the United States all that it has meant to us is exorbitantly increased prices for my wife's medication (We need to pay the salaries of all the petty tyrants to protect is "for our own good" right?) and long waiting times to receive it even when we can pay. I say three cheers to the liberalization of drug laws whenever it occurs. The War on Drugs has done nothing but hurt me and I am far from wealthy.
Sincere sympathy to you and your family. Best wishes from 🇬🇧
There's a difference between illicit psychoactive drugs and drugs used to treat medical conditions. Don't conflate the two.
@@apebass2215 Unfortunately the point Mr Stallard makes is valid. I’m dependent on opioid drugs to control chronic pain and the laws supposedly designed to protect recreational drug users from the consequences of their addiction make obtaining legitimately needed drugs excessively difficult to obtain. Almost impossible in many cases; actually impossible in a hopefully small number. Recreational drug users OTOH have no difficulty whatsoever obtaining any amount of illicit drugs on the black market.
Here in Australia any doctor prescribing classified drugs to a new patient is automatically investigated as being possibly involved in what’s called “doctor-shopping” that addicts were using to obtain the rather larger amounts of drugs than they are entitled to. No reputable practitioner wishes to be investigated for possible criminal activity. Thus when my GP neared retirement, I needed to find a new prescriber. It took the combined efforts of myself and my GP more than two years to finally find a willing prescriber!
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