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January 2, 2012
Our Unredeemable Apocalyptic Urban Landscapes
Cue the sociologists to misunderstand everything about this warped little society,to urge “a multitude of intellectual discourses” in their blind efforts aimed at “empowering marginalized, at-risk individuals” by employing a “comprehensive prevention and wellness approach” that in practice usually amounts to little more than handing out free needles and plastic sippy cups of liquid methadone. -- Blight of the Living Dead - Taki's Magazine
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 2, 2012 9:51 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Great piece, great questions at the end. Nice way to start the new year, pondering the cluelessness of our elites, the politicians and sociologists who pretend to misunderstand everything important in order to keep their own sinecures going. An even worse possibility? Maybe they are not even pretending, maybe they are as fooled as the proles, or even more so.
Posted by: Michael Gersh at January 2, 2012 10:12 AM
Here is a nice piece that debunks the very source of the social scientist's "understanding" of the world as it is.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/chump-effect_610143.html
Posted by: Michael Gersh at January 2, 2012 11:08 AM
Some people use booze in order to function, others use heroin. What say we tax instead of ban and thus raise funds rather than spending them.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at January 2, 2012 3:26 PM
Washington Disease looks like a bombed out war zone. The first time I visited the nation's capitol I couldn't fathom the images of roads with boards covering holes. Liquor stores on every corner. The housing projects that looked like they'd been aerial bombed. The war on poverty became the war on families, and the government has pretty much wiped out the black race without eugenics. Killed by Federal Kindness.
Posted by: Jewel at January 2, 2012 9:06 PM
We're just not smart enough to understand the sophisticated and nuanced outcomes after a neighborhood becomes Ground Zero for hard-core drug users. Simple-minded homeowners aren't well enough educated to look beyond burglary, arson, and dead bodies on the sidewalk for the societal benefits.
Posted by: Scott M at January 3, 2012 2:17 AM
I would really like to ask these people what we should try that hasn't yet been tried over the past forty years and failed miserably.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at January 3, 2012 8:30 AM