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Anthony Daniels es un escritor y facultativo inglés que a menudo publica bajo el seudónimo de Theodore Dalrymple. Suele escribir sobre cultura, arte, política, enseñanza y medicina tanto en Gran Bretaña como en el resto del mundo, y debe gran parte de su fama a su oposición a las políticas progresistas y liberales en esos campos. Aunque ya se ha jubilado como médico, trabajó como tal y como psiquiatra en Zimbabue y Tanzania, y más recientemente en una cárcel y un hospital público de Birmingham, en el centro de Inglaterra. Ha viajado por muchos países de África, América del Sur, Europa Oriental, etc.

Daniels ha revelado en sus escritos que su padre fue un activista comunista, mientras que su madre nació en Alemania y emigró al Reino Unido como refugiada del régimen nazi. En sus comentarios, Daniels suele argumentar que las ideas progresistas dominantes en los círculos intelectuales occidentales tienden a quitar importancia a la responsabilidad del individuo por sus propias acciones y a socavar los valores tradicionales, contribuyendo a la formación en los países ricos de una vasta clase marginal caracterizada por una violencia endémica, criminalidad, promiscuidad sexual, dependencia de los subsidios y abuso de las drogas. También afirma que el abandono por la clase media de sus ideales tradicionales de cultura y comportamiento ha producido con su ejemplo un barbarismo y una ignorancia irremisibles entre los miembros de la clase trabajadora.

Aunque a veces se le tacha de misántropo, Daniels rechaza la acusación y sus defensores afirman que su obra se basa en una filosofía conservadora opuesta a los excesos ideológicos y partidaria del escepticismo, el racionalismo y el empirismo.

En 2005 abandonó Inglaterra para establecerse en Francia, donde piensa seguir escribiendo. Sus columnas suelen aparecer en el semanario británico The Spectator y la revista trimestral estadounidense City Journal, editada por el Manhattan Institute.

Ha colaborado con el Social Trends Institute en un encuentro de expertos celebrado en la Universidad de Princeton en mayo de 2007 y que se tituló "Rethinking Business Management".[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 11. octubre 1949
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Theodore Dalrymple: Frases en inglés

“Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.”

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It is the inescapable duty of every decent citizen to express no interest in or enthusiasm for football and the World Cup http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000966.php (June 7, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“People who are given opiates after operations — sometimes for days — do not become addicts in the sense that I’m talking about. Moreover, it’s been shown that heroin addicts have to make considerable efforts — in other words to be determined — to become addicts, and addicted; and on average it takes them about a year or so. In other words, heroin does not hook them, they hook heroin. And this, I think should suggest, is a typical example of the way that when we think about social problems, or the way many of us think about social problems, we ascribe agency not to agents but to inanimate objects and substances, and forces.”

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C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates https://www.c-span.org/video/?191384-1/romancing-opiates (May 30, 2006)

“For intellectuals, everyone’s mind is closed but their own.”

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Les intellos Speak http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_11_10_04td.html (November 10, 2004).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“14:06> …Of course I made it quite clear to the women that I thought that that the way that they had been abused was terrible and completely unjustifiable. However, I thought that it was very important that they should understand their own complicity in it; so that, for example, they understood that the way they chose men, and their refusal to see signs (which they were capable of seeing) resulted in their misery… <14:40> To give you a concrete example, I would say to them, ‘This man of yours, who’s very nasty to you, and drags you across the floor, and puts your head through the window, and sometimes even hangs you out of the window by your ankles: How long do you think it would take me to realise he was no good, as he came through the door? Would it take me a second, or half a second, or an eighth of a second, or would I not notice that there was anything wrong with him at all?’ And they’d say, ‘Oh, an eighth of a second, you’d know immediately.’ And I would say to them, ‘Well, if you know that I would know immediately, then you knew immediately as well.’ It’s a logical consequence, really. And they would accept that. ‘And yet, you chose to associate with him, knowing full well that he was no good; and I tell you this, because it’s very necessary you should understand your own part in the predicament you now find yourself in, because if you don’t understand it, or don’t think about it, you’re just going to repeat it.’ which is of course, a very, very common pattern.”

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Daniels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Daniels_(psychiatrist) on helping victims of abuse understand how they can help to break the cycle.
CBC Ideas Interview (podcast) (September 25, 2006)

“The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: “How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?””

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The Starving Criminal http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“When the cold war ended, I thought, as no doubt did many others, that the age of ideology was over. Again like many others, I underestimated man’s need for transcendence, which, in the absence of religion or high culture, he is most likely to find in a political or social cause.”

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City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.”

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Who Killed Childhood?
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Henceforth, there is to be no testing oneself against the best, with the possibility, even the likelihood, of failure: instead, one is perpetually to immerse oneself in the tepid bath of self-esteem, mutual congratulation, and benevolence toward all.”

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The Rage of Virginia Woolf http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_3_oh_to_be.html (Summer 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Equality can only be measured by outcome: and this means the imposition of racial quotas. The job of the Senior Executive is therefore to be a senior racist.”

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Theodore Dalrymple finds a cure for the German malady of low blood pressure: read The Guardian's job advertisements.
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.”

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Policeman in Wonderland http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_2_oh_to_be.html (Spring 2000).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty.”

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The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“There is no such thing, wrote Oscar Wilde, as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. Presumably, then, Mein Kampf would have been all right had it been better written.”

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Trash, Violence, and Versace: But Is It Art? http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_1_urbanities-trash.html (Winter 1998).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“I’m not actually against, for example, people going into rehabilitation, provided it is understood that this is not really a medical procedure. Often what happens is that people who are addicted to a substance — alcohol or opiates — have comprehensively messed up their lives, and since life is biography and not just a series of unconnected moments, it may be that they require some assistance in getting their lives together. But I don’t regard that as really a medical procedure.”

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C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates https://www.c-span.org/video/?191384-1/romancing-opiates (May 30, 2006)

“Modernity is the most transient of qualities.”

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The aesthetics of the A55: Theodore Dalrymple finds that everything built along the A55 since the First World War has been a scar on the landscape and explores why our architecture has been so bad http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000937.php (May 22, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.”

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Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)

“And the fact is that millions of opiates addicts having given up their habit without medical assistance.”

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C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates https://www.c-span.org/video/?191384-1/romancing-opiates (May 30, 2006)

“The refusal of free inquiry derives from an awareness of the fragility of the basis of religious faith; and since certainty is psychologically preferable to truth, the former often being willfully mistaken for the latter, anything that threatens certainty is anathematized with fury.”

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The Terrorists Among Us http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_urbanities-terrorists.html (Summer 2006).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“To make up for its lack of a moral compass, the British public is prey to sudden gusts of kitschy sentimentality followed by vehement outrage, encouraged by the cheap and cynical sensationalism of its press. Spasms of self-righteousness are its substitute for the moral life.”

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Who Killed Childhood? http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_2_oh_to_be.html (Spring 2004).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.”

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All Sex, All the Time.
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“To deal with the problems of modern society, hard thought, confrontation with an often unpleasant reality, and moral courage are needed, for which a vague and self-congratulatory broadmindedness is no substitute.”

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An imaginary “scandal” http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/may05/dalrymple.htm (May 2005).
New Criterion (2000 - 2005)

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

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Frontpage Magazine interview http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19293 (August 31, 2005).

“Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.”

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Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001326.php (January 24, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.”

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The Dystopian Imagination http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2001).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Even [Marx], whose information about people came mainly from books, must have known that the Manifesto’s depiction of the relations between men and women was grossly distorted. His rage was therefore—as is so much modern rage—entirely synthetic, perhaps an attempt to assume a generosity of spirit, or love of mankind, that he knew he did not have but felt he ought to have”

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How—and How Not—to Love Mankind.
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it—in other words, by becoming civilized—that men become fully human.”

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Sex and the Shakespeare Reader http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2003).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.”

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Obsessive gambling is now regarded as a mental illness - but, argues Theodore Dalrymple, does that not mean that the Disability Discrimination Act makes it illegal for bookies to discriminate against obsessive gamblers by banning them from their shops? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001721.php (February 19, 2008).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Compassionate fellow-feeling … can soon become self-indulgent and lead to spiritual pride. It imparts an inner glow, like a shot of whiskey on a cold day, but like whisky it can prevent the clear-headedness which we need at least as much as we need warmth of heart.”

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Migration: Multiculturalism and its Metaphors (2016)

“It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.”

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Theodore Dalrymple is outraged to be asked his ethnicity by officialdom - but remembers that it is our social duty to grin and bear insults http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001697.php (January 23, 2008).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“It is better to be opposed by an enemy than to be adrift in meaninglessness, for the simulacrum of an enemy lends purpose to actions whose nihilism would otherwise be self-evident.”

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The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html (Autumn 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.”

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What We Have To Lose http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_4_what_we_have.html (Autumn 2001).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)