Dalrymple’s first bundle of essays titled Life at the Bottom actually changed the way I look at the world. Wonderful man. Deeply humane, non dogmatic, intelligent and funny. Thanks for putting this on KZfaq.

I am an old Leftie, but Life at the Bottom made a deep impression on me. Reality is never as simple as propagandists of either side would have us believe.

Outstanding talk, thank you very much. I commend your efforts in helping to enhance Understanding of HUMANITY.

Outstanding! He speaks exactly like the book writes, even if he's uncomfortable speaking publicly. I would probably be the only 20-something-year-old in the audience and I'd be laughing my butt off.

He and Johnson have a brilliant definition of self consciousness/bashfulness.

The final question revealed a bit of a culture clash between British and American ways of thinking. The person asking the question seemed to believe that it could be a good thing for people to take large quantities of drugs if it seemed to make them feel better. Theodore Dalrymple replied by saying he was very sceptical that it could ever be a good idea for anyone to take large amounts of drugs (unless of course they suffer from a definite condition like epilepsy for example).

talk starts at 4:00

Passing on responsibility onto an object like a knife that kills a person is well known from ancient Greek tragedy where it's exactly the same. It's the object that should be punished, for example an axe is guilty of killing somebody.

Oddly, like criminals, journalists use the passive voice when they want to obscure the agency of some horror.

admirable evasions how psychology undermines morality Theodore Dalrymple

“We are subjects to ourselves”

9:30 to 10:30 mins...... and the ready and willing nature to even proffer up "reasons and excuses" direct, by those bullies, abusers etc to their targets, is perhaps the obvious corollary.

Dr.Johnson had no idea of the basis of shyness. It most certainly isn't related to any sense of ones importance - it is present in persons who have a very sharp, sensitive sense of individual boundaries, and an uncertainty causing psychological tension as to whether we can be sure we wont tread on the boundaries of others, nor that they will trample on ours.

the title is a play o n Shakespeare King Leo i.e charge of the stars..; He states; Life too complicated for witch doctors people lack self esteem ( balance) 1 out of 7 on anti depressants all placebo effect great book!!

8:50 "The knife went in." Is it a conscious device to minimize the crime, or is it that the ego can't handle the event and tries to disassociate itself?... That should be a normal reaction to causing someone's death, something a psychopathic personality perhaps wouldn't say. A serial murderer will often amplify his crimes.

Stefan Zweig meets P G Wodehouse.

Anyone recognise the questioner's voice at 28:32? JBP!

41:00 the doctor- ' theres nothing wrong with you b/c i can't cure you '

Why does the first speaker keep referring to Theodore Dalrymple as Anthony Danials? He introduces him as Anthony Danials and calls him 'Tony' several times.

Actually 9:00mins onwards..... 🤔🤗

00:26 - 04:09 - 06:11 -

Sound quality is awful. Disagree with many of his ideas, but they are interesting nonetheless.

I like Tony enormously. But, speaking as a formerly depressed person, I find it completely plausible that Andreas Lubitz was depressed. Depression turns some sufferers into nihilists. If they have particularly unkind ex-partners, they'll regularly be told that their suicidal ideation is narcissistic, self-centred, attention-seeking and controlling. They'll be surrounded by indications that they're not taken seriously, not respected. In some dreadful cases, the solution they come to is that they're going to teach their exes and the general public to sit up and take notice of people like them. So they fly their planes into the ground or commit terrible murder suicides like Rowan Baxter's murder of Hannah Clarke, his estranged wife, and the three small children he had with her, followed of course by his suicide. Tony's derision and unwillingness to label nihilistic, despairing people who can see no end to the very dark tunnel they find themselves in is a common response, but it really isn't the most helpful response. The most obvious reasons for the Germanwings disaster - a disaster waiting to happen - were absurd ethical codes in medicine, codes that forbid practitioners to break patient confidentiality and share pretty vital information about their infectious diseases or psychological distress, and similar rules in German human resource departments.

Manhattan Institute is well stocked with some of the finest ultra-conservative minds of the 13th century. They still in the 21st century do not understand income and wealth inequality. It's partly due to a Shameful Evasion. Thinking about such things gives them migraines.

Just wondering if the two psychologists who were paid a total of $ 81,000,000 to devise methods with which torture suspected terrorists contribute to general moral depravity or would that be better characterized as an example of the invisible hand of the free market ?

Anthony Daniels/Theodore Dalrymple...what's the point of using a pseudonym, if you don't make the slightest effort to keep your true identity secret?

A little too jokey and flippant for me-- the title is more interesting than the speech.

This guy knows nothing about psychology. Dude doesn’t even reference CBT which is the leading therapy in the modern era and wave of psychology. Psychoanalysis is mostly speculation and theory why are you basing a book off of two psychology books you’ve read in an airport? Get out of here until u understand the field better. Go back to biology or whatever ur doctorate is in. Smh Reference: I have a M.S. in Pscyhology

Boring right-wing pundit