re: Culture, Not Race, Is The Fault-Line That Most Divides Us…

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That may be my favorite Thomas Sowell quote.

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Theodore Dalrymple — née Anthony Malcolm Daniels — who as a British physician witnessed first hand the anti-social behavior that necessarily accompanies the Welfare State, has documented this theme extensively.

Western Welfare Culture destroys families and communities by creating a permanent and multi-generational underclass — raised with little to no parental supervision — intent on seeking short-term pleasure that is devoid of meaning, direction or any pretense of individual accountability.

In Dalrymple’s case, this animalistic underclass was primarily white Londoners, demonstrating that such cultural rot adheres to no racial boundaries.

“A crude culture creates a coarse people, and private refinement cannot long survive public excess. Gresham's law of money applies to culture as well as of money: the bad drives out the good, unless the good is defended.” Theodore Dalrymple.