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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 13:09:08 GMT -5
This is one of several pen names. Born in 1949 he became a psychiatrist and full of wanderlust and care, he practiced medicine and psychiatry in several sub-Saharan countries. Returning to UK, he practiced in the London hospital and prison systems. By the 90s he had trenchant observations to make about culture as context for the spread of mental illness and social decline but found he could only get a hearing from conservative outlets. I find him to be an extremely good writer and when I stumbled upon an article about six years ago by him, he was probably the first non-pc critic of the left-liberal agenda who had a deep impact on me. This is the earliest footage (or photo) of him I can find. I think he would be a highly evolved SiFe, which would explain his youthful adventures as "Ne seeking". He certainly seems Se ignoring. SiFe with polr as power would also account for his choosing to settle into the secure life as a civil servant of the welfare state--thus not having to strategize per se with events but to use his position as a prison psychiatrist as a niche where he was able to strengthen his Ti agenda (to have a coherent worldview) achieved through Fe (being a psychiatrist) and then the moment to 'strike' was when he retired. Then he became a well-known author. I have some trouble with situating him in Alpha in light of recent discussions with vincent though. I wonder if his high development gives him the tougher realism of other quadras? Enneagram-wise he seems to be 5w6 followed very closely by 1w2, with 3 last, probably 4 wing but moving to 2, and movement on the 5 into the Hole. His writing is far deeper and darker with far more primacy of the aesthete than he seems speaking; he has a good bit of the Oscar Wilde to him. It's possible 1 at 7 integrating high 4 leads but he is just so obviously withdrawn and anxious. Yes, probably sp/SO stacking and also yes, sp One is "Worry One" but I think it comes off different. Thoughts?
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 13:18:25 GMT -5
He worked in the four sub-Saharan African countries for as far as I can see a.t.m at least a decade; he also didn't always hide his identity by any means when attacking aspects of the welfare state, underpinnings actually, that are damaging people and creating a permanent underclass. From wiki here are some of his themes. Most (not all) seem garden variety cultural conservative except that HE WASN'T; he'd lived the life of the savior-liberal, walked the walk that others talk. No one could accuse him of prejudices, like being racist or reflexively anti-government so the liberals really didn't know what to do with him and he was a complete gadfly to their agenda when it was unheard of to have dissenters among them.
The cause of much contemporary misery in Western countries – criminality, domestic violence, drug addiction, aggressive youths, hooliganism, broken families – is the nihilistic, decadent and/or self-destructive behaviour of people who do not know how to live. Both the smoothing over of this behaviour, and the medicalisation of the problems that emerge as a corollary of this behaviour, are forms of indifference. Someone has to tell those people, patiently and with understanding for the particulars of the case, that they have to live differently.[23] Poverty does not explain aggressive, criminal and self-destructive behaviour. In an African slum you will find among the very poor, living in dreadful circumstances, dignity and decency in abundance, which are painfully lacking in an average English suburb, although its inhabitants are much wealthier.[24] An attitude characterised by gratefulness and having obligations towards others has been replaced – with awful consequences – by an awareness of "rights" and a sense of entitlement, without responsibilities. This leads to resentment as the rights become violated by parents, authorities, bureaucracies and others in general.[25] One of the things that make Islam attractive to young westernised Muslim men is the opportunity it gives them to dominate women.[26] Technocratic or bureaucratic solutions to the problems of mankind produce disasters in cases where the nature of man is the root cause of those problems. It is a myth, when going "cold turkey" from an opiate such as heroin, that the withdrawal symptoms are virtually unbearable; they are in fact hardly worse than flu.[27][28] Criminality is much more often the cause of drug addiction than its consequence. Sentimentality, which is becoming entrenched in British society, is "the progenitor, the godparent, the midwife of brutality".[29] High culture and refined aesthetic tastes are worth defending, and despite the protestations of non-judgmentalists who say all expression is equal, they are superior to popular culture.[30][31][32] The ideology of the Welfare State is used to diminish personal responsibility. Erosion of personal responsibility makes people dependent on institutions and favours the existence of a threatening and vulnerable underclass. Moral relativism can easily be a trick of an egotistical mind to silence the voice of conscience.[33] Multiculturalism and cultural relativism are at odds with common sense.[34] The decline of civilised behaviour – self-restraint, modesty, zeal, humility, irony, detachment – ruins social and personal life.[35] The root cause of our contemporary cultural poverty is intellectual dishonesty. First, the intellectuals (more specifically, left-wing ones) have destroyed the foundation of culture, and second, they refuse to acknowledge it by resorting to the caves of political correctness.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 13:21:31 GMT -5
If I had to boil it ALL down I would say the crux of his message is that a permanent underclass is being formed because people are being enabled and not being guided in the basics of how to live. As such, he is a predecessor of Peterson's "Clean your room."
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Post by vincent on Nov 24, 2019 14:28:41 GMT -5
Very interesting guy. Your reasoning for SiFe is sound imo. He might be one of those healthy "reluctant" alphas calling out the tribe (and the Empire) on its bullshit. Some of his quotes sounds like (well deserved) weaponized Fi. Especially the vocal opposition to moral relativism.
to be continued... (haven't watched the whole thing yet, but i will).
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 15:21:40 GMT -5
Right, vincent , I forgot about the 'reluctant' alpha! I just finished watching the second video. I feel more confident the 5w6 is leading now; he really seems quite the head type and double head at that. It should be noted how palpable and excruciatingly painful his self-consciousness is and I do think this is 'just' coming from 5w6(4w5)--though of course it's open to discussion. The same thing happens with @quindary and I believe this is a major source of confusion for 5w6's typing as 5w4 or even as Four core and/or insisting they're Four-fixed. 5w6(4w5) is an extreme withdrawn with an acute sense of shame. I feel good with 1w2(9w1) but could be 1w9(2w1) I guess (which is more withdrawn); also good with 3w4. I wonder especially with 1w2 if (2w3) is a bit Two-heavy. Image last seems right. Might he be so/sx and the heart is in the sp position? This would add more withdrawnness to the image fix. Also it seems like with sp/so regardless of how withdrawn he would have a more boundaried physical 'container'; however, his bottom line seems so overwhelmingly brass tacks (Si, domesticity, self-care, attention to small details of life) it's hard to imagine him sp last. I mean...he's even an MD... And also sp/SO 'self-deprecator' really fits him. I wonder if he's not 3w4(4w5) after all. Seems like too much Four...he has a suaveness to him for all the stuttering shambles...hmmm...in short I'm not settled on the details of the complete E-typing. Current hypothesis: sp/SO 5w6(4w5)-1w2(9w1)-3w4(2w3)
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 15:25:00 GMT -5
Here's the third video. It ends very soon and the rest is Q&A. Yo don't have to watch everything but I find him enjoyable; you don't need to read his books to get the full Oscar Wilde, just to pay attention.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 15:39:16 GMT -5
I feel now like when the camera pans in that 3w4(2w3)>(4w5) is very obvious. I also feel sp/SO >so/sx due the absence of any lens for historical, economic, etc. analysis of Thatcher or September 11. And anyway he seems sx last. I think some kind of very soft so/sp would make more sense than so/sx but he is likely sp/SO.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 15:45:48 GMT -5
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 16:08:26 GMT -5
The Q&A is a must see! His sp dom boundary is much more visible, so is his (2w3) on the 3w4 imo.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 16:34:41 GMT -5
He is interesting to compare to Chris Hedges. I'm tending to agree with vincent about so/sp for Hedges (which I originally thought anyway) and also with 1w2>1w9. But in the Q&A here I really wonder if it's not 1w9(2w1) for Dalrymple? There is a real 'aloofness' to him and a warmth coming out from under it. In this scenario he will have two very withdrawn fixes, and an extroverting fix and stacking that nevertheless have their aloofness--4 wing with (2w3) on 3 heart and sp cover on very high social.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 16:42:14 GMT -5
I'm even wondering about 1w9(9w8) as the Q&A proceeds. He gets 'bearish' as he gets personal.
This might also account for the sort of ingrained "shrug" for all the precision and 'hauteur'.
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Post by vincent on Nov 24, 2019 16:44:30 GMT -5
sp/SO seems right imo. Of course he is not a soldier, but he is still a "trooper" in a way, as some kind of "combat medic" (on the african frontline, on the psychiatric frontline). And it also makes sense in correlation with the cognitive type : the strong SOness of the SiFe stacking piercing through the SP5w6 wall.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 16:44:37 GMT -5
He seems to get more vincent-ish> hedges-ish.
He probably already was...
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Post by vincent on Nov 24, 2019 16:58:20 GMT -5
I'm even wondering about 1w9(9w8) as the Q&A proceeds. He gets 'bearish' as he gets personal. This might also account for the sort of ingrained "shrug" for all the precision and 'hauteur'.
1w9(9w8) seems more likely to me than 1w9(2w1) or 1w2. His slightly surly flavor of Fe auxiliary isn't that far from mine actually.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 24, 2019 17:01:18 GMT -5
Yeah I think that's what's (or part of what's) going on. He does not have any pride in the gut. He is self-effacing and apologizing for his existence ninishly with a big bear shrug. But he does have pride in the heart space, the pride of being able to connect and offer something after all. I'm with 1w9(9w8) and 3w4(2w3) fixes. I may just not have ever actually typed 1w9(9w8) before! The cuddly ice bear.
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