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Theodore Dalrymple: I Have Seen the Future and It Is Idiocy

November 10, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Dalrymple writes:

It often seems, then, as if modern state authorities live in a looking-glass world: What normal people regard as important is for them of no importance, while what they regard as of supreme importance normal people regard as of no importance. For them the respectable are suspect and the suspect respectable. A tweed jacket is a sign of menace, while a broken bottle is a sign of harmless intent.

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