Spoilt Rotten The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality edition by Theodore Dalrymple Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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Not since Christopher Hitchens assault on Mother Theresa have so many sacred cows been slaughtered in such a short volume.' Spectator 'One of our most celebrated essayists.' Toby Young, Mail on Sunday '[A] cultural highlight.' Observer 'Surgical demolition.' Guardian In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life. Under the multiple guises of raising children well, caring for the underprivileged, assisting the less able and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite -for the single purpose of feeling good about ourselves. Dalrymple takes the reader on both an entertaining and at times shocking journey through social, political, popular and literary issues as diverse as child tantrums, aggression, educational reform, honour killings, sexual abuse, Che Guevara, Eric Segal, Romeo and Juliet, the McCanns, public emotions and the role of suffering, and shows the perverse results when we abandon logic in favour of the cult of feeling.
Spoilt Rotten The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality edition by Theodore Dalrymple Politics Social Sciences eBooks
At the root of so many of the absurd stories we see in the news is sentimentality. Author Theodore Dalrymple notes that dictionaries define sentimentalism as an excess of emotion that is false, mawkish, and over-valued by comparison with reason, and he also asserts that "sentimentality requires the attachment to a distorted set of beliefs about reality, and also the fiction of innocence and perfection, either actual or potential."In "Spoilt Rotten," Dalrymple limns the consequences of sentimentality in the present-day West. The author traces the cult of the victim responsible for so much of sentimentality back to the Romantic era. Today's sentimentalists have anything but a live-and-let-live ethos, as their condescension, self-importance, self-indulgence, and elevation of feeling over reason leads them to coerce others psychologically, and Dalrymple provides brilliant examples of this phenomenon and how it harms truly innocent people.
Sentimentalism has inflicted deleterious effects on the family, relationships, public safety, pop culture, the justice system, and government spending levels in recent times. Dalrymple in "Spoilt Rotten" highlights one of the most serious afflictions affecting modern advanced societies, and an issue that, unfortunately, only continues to get worse as the decades pass.
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Spoilt Rotten The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality edition by Theodore Dalrymple Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
I must admit I bought the book quite some time ago and only last week picked it off the shelf. I can't deny, though, that once opened I had a hard time setting it down. Each observation, each point, and each description I could place in context with incredibly similar issues I have been dealing with. Working at a large Fortune 500 company, I was having issues getting my support staff to execute their duties per their roles and responsibilities. I went to management and was told to not rely on the roles and responsibilities but to work on my 'relationship' with them. The end state was that if I couldn't hold them accountable then I was either bribing them or manipulating their emotions neither of which does justice to a professional experience.
He his the nail on the head over and over with the observations of questioning a persons motive becomes callous and 'evil' in itself and subjects the questioner to the derision of his peers. Aid is hard to vote against because who can't empathize with starving children?
I think his hardest hitting point is on children and the thought that they are the manifestations of purity until spoiled by the evils of adult hood. This lasts insofar as anyone witnesses a preschool classroom, the purity argument quickly flies out the window through logical observation but since the majority of the population isn't logical it persists through all facets of our culture.
Dalrymples book is expertly written. His command of the language lends itself well to explaining the complex social and political problems he has observed over years as a psychiatrist working in England and abroad. An illuminating intellectual excursion into the dreadfully deleterious effects of political correctness, sentimentality over reason, and the society that enables it all. Read this book and you will learn some psychology, how an educated person makes a proper argument, and learn much about the world we live in. We hear much blame as to the cause of societal woes, often lamenting racism, capitalism, big business, greed, warmongering or western civilization at large. The future demands more of than those intellectually impotent excuses born of sentimentality over logic, reason, or observable fact. One of my top ten reads for better understanding our modern socio-political climate. In depth and fascinating.
Another series of essays which attack what Mr Dalrymple calls the cult of sentimentality. His main target is the media , he asks why does a wealthy handsome victim of a serious crime deserve the public sympathy by having their story told over and over in the media when an alcoholic homeless man suffering the same fate hardly merits a mention. This is over simplifying what he says but I believe I have expressed the point he is trying to make.
Another very valid point he made is that if you behave like Madeleine McCann's parents and face the media stoically without screaming and spitting and rolling around on the ground you in these enlightened times get accused of not caring enough. With the result that very soon it is being suggested that you have murdered your daughter because you didn't scream and spit and roll about on the tiles. Again a over simplification of what he is expressing but the point is the same.
Again a very good collection by a man who has worked in the fields he writes about, recommended.
At the root of so many of the absurd stories we see in the news is sentimentality. Author Theodore Dalrymple notes that dictionaries define sentimentalism as an excess of emotion that is false, mawkish, and over-valued by comparison with reason, and he also asserts that "sentimentality requires the attachment to a distorted set of beliefs about reality, and also the fiction of innocence and perfection, either actual or potential."
In "Spoilt Rotten," Dalrymple limns the consequences of sentimentality in the present-day West. The author traces the cult of the victim responsible for so much of sentimentality back to the Romantic era. Today's sentimentalists have anything but a live-and-let-live ethos, as their condescension, self-importance, self-indulgence, and elevation of feeling over reason leads them to coerce others psychologically, and Dalrymple provides brilliant examples of this phenomenon and how it harms truly innocent people.
Sentimentalism has inflicted deleterious effects on the family, relationships, public safety, pop culture, the justice system, and government spending levels in recent times. Dalrymple in "Spoilt Rotten" highlights one of the most serious afflictions affecting modern advanced societies, and an issue that, unfortunately, only continues to get worse as the decades pass.
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