ep19 - Degradation of political discourse, culture & beauty-less architecture (w/Theodore Dalrymple)

In this episode I have on Theodore Dalrymple and we talk about the popularity of his work in Brazil, the loss of importance of Britain in the world undermining the social structure of Britain, degradation of the political discourse, the outskirts of Paris, the revolt of 1969 of 'the spoiled brats', the ascend of Jews and Sikh's in Britain which is the result of their (good) culture, the culture of 'You're stupid because you're clever' which limits learning, his experience on travels in Africa,  the failure of the British police and the leniency of the British courts,  the principle victims of crime being the poor, how too many people today are intellectuals, how "to be an intellectual you have to deny the obvious", the ugliness of what modern architecture produces, the disregard of beauty in modern architecture, the loss of religion in Britain, his experience with a young man in North Korea who loved the work of Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare, his comments on Eric Hoffer's quote about intellectuals being more corrupted by power than men of action, how 'diversity' is one of the conditions for a successful University professor job application, Isaiah Berlin, what he thinks Brexit is going to bring, the difficulty of Brexit negotiations, how the EU is like 'another Yugoslavia', Trump the man vs Trump the politician. YouTube version of the podcast (with video): https://youtu.be/QjATHpra5Ig Theodore's Life At the Bottom book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047Y0FN2/ Theodore's columns at City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/theodore-dalrymple_44 If you want to support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/AllThatJazzShow

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