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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me."
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Dalrymple/Daniels certainly does believe in social context. He’s talking about the kind of society which encourages people to make the wrong choices almost always, mainly (and I suppose this is paradoxical, or at least ironic) by telling them that they have no agency because everything is society’s fault.
(i.e. everything isn’t society’s fault, and it’s society’s fault that so many people think that way.)
Slap Shot at 10:59 AM:
Re Theodore Dalrymple: “He nails the observed mental failures of those in the poverty class, but I think he falls short in his conclusion/solutions. The failure of our economy to deal with the flat liners, in developed countries, is that we don’t understand or respect the ingenuity of human nature….
“The hard core solution would be to stop providing food & lodging through multiple sources… Make the real flat-liners, not those just needing a helping hand, go to soup kitchens for food & live in low cost housing . . .”
Check out the link I provided at Reader Tips today re an interview with Dalrymple. Slap Shot, part of his solution is exactly what you mention here. He says that so many altogether undeserving and unaccountable types are gaming the system that the truly—and deserving—needy are being shoved aside.
larben: “(Actually, some say [money] is the root of all evil)”
larben, what Scripture actually says is, “the love of money is the root of all evil.”
Money can be used for good, so money, itself, isn’t the problem. It’s our choices about how to use it that are either good or evil.
Chesterfield
“Try living on that just about anywhere in the US for a year or two, and then decide if you are in fact poor or not.”
Sounds a little like anecdote to me.
Get off your high horse.
Maureen: I’m sorry I did’t make my point.I have no education can’t spell but was able to do very well in making a living. Even had Uni. grads work for me over the years. Always ran my own company. Some times that can be hard on the wife and kids. My point is you are only poor because you want to be. In this country anyone can be what they want to be.