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Expressionist Students From Hell
Jan. 29th, 2010 03:15 pmJust checked my email to find one from Monday Books inviting me to an evening with Scumball Dalrymple/Daniels.
It's not their sending me the invitation I object to, since I am a multiple-time Monday Books customer. An avowed socialist I may be but I'm not soft on law and order and I'm one of Inspector Gadget's and WPC Bloggs' biggest fans; Eddy Nugent's tales of army life have me helpless with laughter.
No, what makes my blood boil is one of the two extracts from the scumball's latest tome that appear in the email. Writing about a drug addict who got into heroin because everyone he knew used it, the "good" doctor says :
"So there you have it: in this age of unbridled self-expression, when (to quote our esteemed Minister of Education) the three Cs, culture, creativity and community or is it compassion, caring and crying in public? have replaced the three Rs, everyone does what everyone else does."
It's no surprise to see TD slagging off us advocates of emotional expression. We've always known that he's a devotee of 'bottling it up', 'just forgetting about it' and healing yourself by willpower alone, and no friend of ours. But, as well as perpetuating the tiresome stereotype that we all cry in public and make a virtue of it, he goes too far in making a completely random reference to expressionism that has no relationship either with 'everyone doing what everyone else does' or with society's serious hard drug problem.
With no justification whatsoever, Dalrymple is making a vile attempt to scapegoat pro-expression people and tar us with some of the blame for the tragedy of people becoming hard drug users because some of those around them are. FWIW, no expressionist I've ever met has been a hard drug user.
I think Attila the Stockbroker said it all :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1aJEncfBQQ
It's not their sending me the invitation I object to, since I am a multiple-time Monday Books customer. An avowed socialist I may be but I'm not soft on law and order and I'm one of Inspector Gadget's and WPC Bloggs' biggest fans; Eddy Nugent's tales of army life have me helpless with laughter.
No, what makes my blood boil is one of the two extracts from the scumball's latest tome that appear in the email. Writing about a drug addict who got into heroin because everyone he knew used it, the "good" doctor says :
"So there you have it: in this age of unbridled self-expression, when (to quote our esteemed Minister of Education) the three Cs, culture, creativity and community or is it compassion, caring and crying in public? have replaced the three Rs, everyone does what everyone else does."
It's no surprise to see TD slagging off us advocates of emotional expression. We've always known that he's a devotee of 'bottling it up', 'just forgetting about it' and healing yourself by willpower alone, and no friend of ours. But, as well as perpetuating the tiresome stereotype that we all cry in public and make a virtue of it, he goes too far in making a completely random reference to expressionism that has no relationship either with 'everyone doing what everyone else does' or with society's serious hard drug problem.
With no justification whatsoever, Dalrymple is making a vile attempt to scapegoat pro-expression people and tar us with some of the blame for the tragedy of people becoming hard drug users because some of those around them are. FWIW, no expressionist I've ever met has been a hard drug user.
I think Attila the Stockbroker said it all :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1aJEncfBQQ
