Theodore Dalrymple - The Truth About Crime
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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you take, for example, the number of recorded crimes per prisoner in this country, |
| 0:06.4 | it's gone from six per prisoner in about 1910 or 1900 to 114 in 2000. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Triganoa Tree. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantin Kissen. |
| 0:33.0 | And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. |
| 0:39.0 | A fascinating guest we have for you today. He's an author, cultural critic, former prison physician |
| 0:44.8 | and psychiatrist known best by his pseudonym Theodor Dalrymple. Welcome to Triganoa Tree. |
| 0:49.7 | Thank you very much. It's a pleasure. I promised to ruin your introduction. I think I just about |
| 0:53.7 | got everything in. You have had an extraordinary life and your work is very, very interesting. |
| 1:00.6 | Before we get into it, tell everybody about your background. Who are you? How are you where you are? |
| 1:05.7 | How have you ended up here talking to us? Well, I've ended up here talking to you because you |
| 1:11.2 | invited me. But I didn't break my way in. Well, I became a doctor. I went to Africa. I had a great |
| 1:21.2 | desire to see the world. So I spent quite a lot of my life touring the world. When I was young, |
| 1:27.6 | I had a slight attraction to danger. And then I sort of settled down and was a psychiatrist |
| 1:38.2 | and a prisoner. And one of the themes of your writings, I mean, we'll get into a lot of them. |
| 1:44.2 | But one of the themes is a word that, you know, if you were to utter it in the confines of a normal |
| 1:48.1 | TV studio, I think people would have a meltdown. But it is a word that is important, which is |
| 1:53.1 | responsibility. There's something that you've written a lot about in the context of our culture. |
| 1:58.0 | What are we missing around that subject, do you think? Well, I think there's a lot of double |
| 2:02.6 | thinking on in that people think they themselves are responsible, but they take away responsibility |
| 2:09.0 | from other people. So they see other people as vectors of forces, if you like. But of course, |
| 2:14.2 | no one can think of himself as a vector of forces until that is he has to make excuses for himself. |
| 2:21.6 | When, of course, he begins immediately to talk about being a vector of forces when you do |
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