Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1906142610 | 98 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1906142610 | 98 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
In Spoilt Rotten, social commentator Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture or What is Left of It, 2009) grinds his axe at our sentimentality-centric culture where feelings have become the yardstick of everything we do: safe driving, education, taking of responsibility (none), sentimentality (everywhere). In this forensic polemic of maudlin popular culture from X-factor to Super Nannies, Dalrymple wields his scalpel at all our modern sacred cows. Children will be speechless, for once, parents will hang their heads in shame!
Arecent report by the United Nations Children’s and Educational Fund (UNICEF) stated that Britain was the worst country of twenty-one advanced countries in which to be a child. Normally I do not set much store by these kind of league-table statements, which are usually based upon many false premises, suppositions and the like, and are designed to produce the very results that will confirm their authors’ prejudices (or their authors’ employers’ prejudices). Rarely do such reports fail to suggest that more government intervention in people’s lives is the answer to the problems with which they deal.