Tuesday, March 16, 2010

"Alternative Lifestyles"

A great article in the New Republic. Read it here.
Dalrymple says pretty much the same thing.

Dalrymple speculates as to why people take drugs(do dumb things):
....In other words, whatever caused them to commit crimes in all probability caused them also to take heroin: perhaps an adversarial stance to the world caused by the emotional, spiritual, cultural and intellectual vacuity of their lives.
That last bit is probably pertinent to the previous post

Tupac?

2 comments:

Tupac Chopra said...

There is certainly a lot of truth to that, but Dalrymple's statement could just as easily be amended to:

perhaps an adversarial stance to the world caused by the emotional, spiritual, cultural and intellectual vacuity of their peers.

At least for those closer to the right end of the bell curve.

The Social Pathologist said...

True, but a bad strategy.