The condition of many people in relatively degenerate areas of Great Britain is, says Dalrymple,
worse than that which I have seen in Africa.
These Britons
have less pride, less self-respect. They have no self-respect, actually.
A necessary condition of such a state of the soul is
the welfare state.
But Dalrymple doubts that the welfare state is a sufficient condition for such degradation. (There are, he points out, welfare states less bad than Britain’s.) The point is that there has been
an ideological change: things that were once received as a benefit are received as a right. This is a cause of resentment: what people receive — they are being paid to exist — is never as much as what they would like to receive.
Many British people, Dalrymple observes, are
beached human whales.
Dalrymple encounters a male whale in the hotel lift.
His T-shirt was emblazoned with a single word, ENGLAND, a superfluous message if ever there were one.
The British, says Dalrymple, are
fried food made flesh.
Their appearance signifies one of two things, or both:
- collapse of self-respect, at least in the aspect of physical appearance
- total lack of imagination as to the impression they make on others
Dalrymple points out that
slum-dwellers in Kinshasa make a better effort, with more success, in turning themselves out well.
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The condition of many people in relatively degenerate areas of Great Britain is, says Dalrymple,
