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Original Title:	Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
ISBN:	1566635055 (ISBN13: 9781566635059)
Edition Language:	English

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass Paperback | Pages: 284 pages

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Title	:	Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Author	:	Theodore Dalrymple
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 284 pages
Published	:	March 8th 2003 by Ivan R. Dee Publisher (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics. Sociology. Psychology. Economics. Writing. Essays

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Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet in listening to and observing his patients, he is continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own considerable experience. Dalrymple's key insight in Life at the Bottom is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no responsibility for their actions and are not the molders of their own lives. Drawn from the pages of the cutting-edge political and cultural quarterly City Journal, Dalrymple's book draws upon scores of eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing-sometimes all at once. And Dalrymple writes in prose that transcends journalism and achieves the quality of literature.

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The whole book is driving the point home of personal responsibility. Much like I WILL NOT take responsibility for my abuse of alcohol and my unwillingness to change my situation out of mind blowing laziness and apathy, Dalrymple argues a lot of this is my own choice?!?! What an asshole!!! He is harshing my buzz... He states that a lot of this originates from academia and most from Liberal thought and blaming "the system" rather than "the self". As if!!! The idea that instead of a murderer

Fantastic.

Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) is a retired doctor and psychiatrist. In this book of essays he presents to us the view into the English underclass. I must say that I was terrified at what I read. I guess I have never imagined the extent to which England has sunk. Dalrymple covers everything from domestic abuse, addiction, poverty, education and many more topics. He gets deep into the causes of the development of the underclass. His essay on what is poverty is brilliant. This book will open

You see. Ive had a Dalrymple experience and it was like this. My doctor has his rooms in a Dalrymple part of town. Everybody who goes in looks like theyve either just come out of a stretch, or theyve just been sentenced to oneor might even on the run from one. The older women clearly all have sons whom they might even be visiting that very afternoon in the slammer. Im the only one, I deduce, who has never set foot in gaol. Oh. There is that time I was put in gaol in Slovakia, but Im not counting

Dalrymple makes his points early on in the book, then spends the rest spewing countless anecdotes which supposedly prove them. Interesting stuff such as the passive phrases violent people use ("the knife went in...") can't make up for the fact that the author is clearly out to put all the blame on 'progressives' and 'liberals'. He makes it seem like a kind of conspiracy: liberals were and are out to destroy society.A very tiresome read.

I find this really hard to give a star rating to because I completely disagree with his politics, yet I devoured the book and really enjoyed it - "hate reading" as @gbaker called it. Kind of a guilty pleasure like watching Jeremy Kyle (this book has a lot in common with that show).Anyway, I thought I'd list things that the author doesn't like:IntellectualsModernismThe sexual revolutionGovernmentBureaucratsPolice (well, not the concept, but how they are so politically correct these days)Political

THE BRITISH UNDERCLASSDalrymple's great subject is the underclass he's worked with them for years as a doctor in an inner city area and in prisons, he knows what he's talking about, this is a guy I respect, and he's thrusting before our horrified faces the terrible facts of the matter. He sounds like a right wing git half of the time but maybe I'm turning into a right wing git because mostly I think he's got it dead right but sometimes he's just like a slightly more intellectual Jeremy Clarkson