Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) - Evil in a Decadent Society
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2022
- In this special Subversive episode, I'm joined by one of the most influential and observant social critics of our age, a man who has seen it all and lived to tell the tale.
We speak about crime, anarcho-tyranny, the allure of violence, the concept of evil, religion, liberalism, decadence, mental illness, identity, stigma, and much, much more.
This was one of my favorite conversations on this podcast, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Anthony's recommended subversive is Simon Leys, an essayist, and sinologist, one of the first intellectuals to denounce the Cultural Revolution in China and the idolizing of Mao in the West.
Anthony Daniels, who is probably more well known by his pseudonym, Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison physician and psychiatrist and the author of many, many wonderful books, among them “Life at the Bottom” and “Our culture, what’s left of it."
Love this gentleman. Bought a lot of his books.
I really wish more people on our side would talk about architecture and urbanism.. it really is a mirror of society's "soul", so to speak.. and it's very, very sick right now indeed.
Great talk, thanks a lot.
I went to Barking with a friend who grew up there. It was like going to a Taliban village.
A Taliban village would probably be better. They had Lord Routledge for tea and gave him a ton of souvenirs. I doubt he'd get the same treatment from immigrants in England.
This was awesome. Took a bit to get off the ground, but once you get Dalrymple going he's very interesting.
Poorer but *safer* back in the day, I wonder what else changed in East London.
The Amish?
This guy *never* mentions third world migrants. He once wrote a whole article about how criminal the "men" in a certain area were. The unsuspecting reader would have assumed he was talking about the British underclass -- as he always does -- but that respective area was >90% muslim. If you think about it, he was in effect slandering the British working class because he is too much of a coward to call out muslims. What a disgusting fop!
@@threestars7561 He dislikes the English working class more than anything in this world. It's a cultural thing. In fairness, he stopped working in UK just before the latest migratory wave and he lives mainly in France.
@@threestars7561 If you trace his ancestry you might find out why he doesn't mention certain things.
*thinking emoji*
There used to be an Asian belief about life energy which claimed that evil energy always moves fast while good energy always moves in a slow manner. Straight lines have to be obstructed in gardens and homes to slow down the evil energy. We now live in an age in which everything (architecture, buildings, cars, objects) is a straight line with barely any design, warmth, naturalism or "soul".
"There's more and more ways in which you can annihilate yourself."
Rob Henderson's theory of luxury beliefs is applicable to Professor Daniel's observation of the hypocrisy in the elite caste.
Fascinating! Thank you for this interview.
He is a truthful and intelligent man and this young lady was a wonderful and attentive interviewee. Read at least one of his books x
Thanks for uploading.
Always a pleasure to listen to Mr. Dalrymple. The interviewer did a good job.
What a joy to stumble across your interview this morning. I recognise you from an interview you gave on the NCF and Mr. Daniels has an extraordinary mind. Thank you for the conversation I will certainly look at other videos on your channel.
You content is a blessing as always.
After retiring from a law enforcement career, I decided to work part time in Yuma, Arizona at a major retailer. The shoplifting was simply terrible. Interesting enough, when the "Snowbirds" showed in the fall, there was always a dramatic decrease in overall theft. My immediate supervision, an Hispanic man, was the first to point this out to me. My conclusion was that poor people thought they were "entitled," and wealthier Snowbirds did not. Thanks for reading.
wow what a catch for a conversation!
I dated a woman years ago
Who was surprised, i didn't get into a fight at the pub on a night out. Yes she went far as to belittle me.
Enjoyable and interesting. Thank you
Every time I hear something worthwhile it is so punishingly horrifying I simply do not know what to do.
With regards to women and criminals, I don't think it's the crime that attracts girls, it's the unwillingness to submit to the rule of other men. Submissiveness is not an attractive quality in men.
May I add my own endorsement of Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans) as an essayist?
A collection of his works 'The Angel & the Octopus' (Duffy & Snellgrove 1998) saw subsequent enhancement, addition and expansion into 'The Hall of Uselessness' (Black Inc. 2012). I met and became acquainted with Dr Daniels when he first visited Australia in 1998. He and Ryckmans are in a class of their own.
For those of you who have just watched this engaging interview there's little I can add to commend Anthony Daniels' view of Life at the Bottom: the man speaks for himself as he speaks for all of us who intuit TS Eliot was right when he wrote '...Humankind cannot bear very much reality'.
Nice interview. Subscribed.
This man is a genius.
Ted D is a genius.
At the end of his 2016 Sydney talk, Mr. Dalrymple said he was going to write a book about the second hand bookshops of Hay-on-Wye. But alas it looks like that never came to pass.
He wrote an article in the New Criterion about it though. If I remember correctly
its okay to occasionally have trust betrayed
- if it's rare
- if you can roughly understand why
- if your environment shares your shock reaction.
if these 3 are not evident, its a message to not trust people. that's intelligence.
Please always add timestamps.
great interview alex, if he comes back for round 2 I would love to hear two questions re what was said here. First, i think i have met people who are close to being born good. But even the best people i've known feel an attraction to some kind of evil, how come the reverse doesn't seem to apply? Also, given his comment about most people he met not being evil, rather just weak, how would he define the difference between doing and being evil?
I think being evil is probably just an extreme form of being weak, and I think Theodore Dalrymple probably thinks the same. I've been reading his books and articles for about 20 years. On the subject of people being born good, I think it's very difficult to judge whether someone is 100% or nearly 100% good, because if they publicise their goodness it might just be boasting, and if they don't publicise it most people would never know about it by definition. So it's almost impossible to make a judgement on that subject in my opinion. Most likely, everyone does stupid and bad things, but it's just that we don't hear about it in some cases. The person we think is nearly 100% good has probably done some bad things at some point in their life. That's just being human.
It is difficult for the average person to understand the objective of the architecture of today, beyond perhaps placing the maximum amount to structure on a given piece of land. Hudson Yards in Manhattan is a fine example. From a distance at which one might view a skyline, it looks interesting. When one is walking around among the buildings, it looks stark and cold. There is no warmth. Designers apparently recognized this, as evidenced by the obvious effort to install a parklike atmosphere around the exterior of the building. The "park" accoutrements help, but the atmosphere of cold practicality and barely camouflaged city life frenzy are still present in the background. Try as they might, the architects could not make the space feel like a town square in Richmond, North Yorkshire or the center of town in Ravello, Italy or much of Greenwich Village. Up close, all of the glass in Hudson Yards looks the same, so one does not let one's gaze wander. The buildings do not add to the atmosphere, they substract from it.
Perhaps the British police need a reform.
I would suggest creating a Political Branch to fight hate and thought crime.
Then there would be branches to fight crime against the person and property.
Of course you would give the Political Branch at least 70% of the funding.
The likely new prime minister Liz Truss has just said she will be campaigning against thought crime.
70%? That's a fascist talking point. The Political Branch deserve 95% percent AT LEAST. Their work is far more important to preserving our values.
Can we talk about free will because top scientists say there is no free will. If you are a product of your environment, are you culpable? But that is dystopian in conclusion.
divine central authority
People doing their best is a complex set of character patterns …..high levels of competence….as in the decorator analogy , means foremost that the decorator has applied himself through some training to achieve a high level of skill , is dutiful enough to do it day after day …..conscientiousness ……and has earned the trust of the person he works for by 5* recommendations from other people . This implies bonded communities that are homogeneous……the opposite of diversity and multiculturalism
Alex, love your show! Regarding women's incessant need for drama, is it because women biologically need a steady stream of dopamine?
Correct.
"Most people do their best if you trust them to do so" ?? No, I don't think so. Once upon a time, yes.
i have a question for the gentleman about prison: my impression is that psychlogists, especially in prison, teach psychopaths a language of excuses. furthermore I believe that this is known and efforts are made to conceal this.
I think the problem with psychopaths is that, no matter how you interact with them, they will manipulate the situation to their advantage. Psychologists who, with the best intentions, try to help them gain some insight into their behavior end up inadvertently teaching them some tricks to improve their manipulation and exploitation. So if, for example, instead of teaching them "excuses" you try to teach them about personal responsibility they will simply utilize the jargon of personal responsibility to further deceive people.
Cool
50:03 He's being burgled
Niccas in Paris
58:44 - that libsOFtiktok has shared public sentiments of influencers promoting child sex work. this one teacher was saying that her immigrant students have shared these stories of prostituting themselves along their migration journey & the teacher (of jr, high school) thought that this is a good line of work for these students to continue & was wondering how to help them do so.
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it used to be that social standards rested in imperfect Interpretation of natural laws conceptualized in religions. even people outside society could accept good as good and bad as bad without being forced into submission by bullies.
now feminist bullies try to enforce rights and rules for us but like the stereotypical noodle wood housewives everyone knows it's just bullying so these rules exist as accepted norms only where they are Perce as useful for controlling people.
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Old buildings aren't energy efficient. I'm not saying that is the be all and end all, just thats why they don't build buildings like that any more. You can convert old buildings to be more energy efficient - but they aren't as energy efficient as a modern box.
I had this same conversation with my husband, who is a civil engineer, and that seems to be his idea too. Add to that 100 other regulations that a concrete box does better on than any other dwelling.
I was under the impression his real name is Anthony Daniel, as opposed to "Daniels". Anthony Daniels being the actor who played C3PO in Star Wars.
No, it's Daniels, the same as the actor. (Incidentally, my mother went to university at the same time as him. They both went on a student trip to India, Afghanistan, Turkey, etc, in 1969. It was called COMEX. There are films of it on RUclips).
people in prison are better than normal because they have to be.
He should just abbreviate his name to Ted Rimple. Or Tony Daniels.
I assume you're not a reader of the Spectator?
Why? I like his pen name.
Teddy D!
American detected.
why don't you mention women's obsession with 50 shades? why don't you mention women's obsession with rape porn?
30 mins in talking about psychopathy, hard wired but shaped by nurture.
The decorator analogy is terrible. The decorator is hired by him as an autonomous choice. I presume the said decorator didn't invade his home and violently rearranged the flowers. Hiring someone implies due diligence and decision by the person doing the hiring and also an available avenue of compensation should the hired party fail to live up to expectations. If we and our autonomous choices acting on the assumption that principles can be grounded in first and axiomatic principles aren't the locus of responsibility then what is and who is to decide it? Isn't this an advocation of tyranny?
@Paul Ban
Think you lost the plot mate. He was talking about people being able to make a decision
Is Paleo Fascism what we're going for here?
I'd describe Theodore Dalrymple as a traditional British conservative, which is very different to an American conservative. British conservatives are mostly not puritanical in their approach, whereas Americans tend to be puritanical because of their history. British conservatism couldn't be more at odds with fascism or paleo fascism. British conservatism is all about being indirect and non-passionate. Fascism is always about being passionate.
@@ajs41 I wouldn't describe American conservatives as puritanical although there isn't just one strand of American conservatism. The Puritans were from New England and that is the exact opposite of a heartland of American conservatism. Woke left movements in US cancel culture greatly resemble puritanism.
The poor don't commit more crime, criminals tend to be poor. This is a classic example of middle-class snobbery.
What's the difference?
@@EilisLornaWalsh causation.
@@EilisLornaWalsh Seriously?
X isnt y, but y is x
Crime rates do in fact decrease as income deciles increase, for all demos.
The point he (TD) didn’t get to was that changes in poverty do not mean changes in VIOLENT crime, as was seen many times in the past with the classic example being the Great Depression. Violent crime decreased during the Great Depression and continued on that downward trend into the early 1960s.