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Spoilt Rotten: the Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple Ebook Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 256 pages+++Publisher:::: Gibson Square Books (May 1, 2011)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 1906142254+++ISBN- 13:::: 978-1906142254+++Product Dimensions::::7.7 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches++++++ ISBN10 1906142254 ISBN13 978-1906142 Download here >> Description: In Spoilt Rotten, social commentator Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture or What is Left of It, 2009) grinds his axe at our sentimentality-centric culture where feelings have become the yardstick of everything we do: safe driving, education, taking of responsibility (none), sentimentality (everywhere). In this forensic polemic of maudlin popular culture from X-factor to Super Nannies, Dalrymple wields his scalpel at all our modern sacred cows. Children will be speechless, for once, parents will hang their heads in shame! At the root of so many of the absurd stories we see in the news is sentimentality. Author Theodore Dalrymple notes that dictionaries define sentimentalism as an excess of emotion that is false, mawkish, and over-valued by comparison with reason, and he also asserts that sentimentality requires the attachment to a distorted set of beliefs about reality, and also the fiction of innocence and perfection, either actual or potential.In Spoilt Rotten, Dalrymple limns the consequences of sentimentality in the present-day West. The author traces the cult of the victim responsible for so much of sentimentality back to the Romantic era. Todays sentimentalists have anything but a live-and-let-live ethos, as their condescension, self- importance, self-indulgence, and elevation of feeling over reason leads them to coerce others psychologically, and Dalrymple provides brilliant examples of this phenomenon and how it harms truly innocent people.Sentimentalism has inflicted deleterious effects on the family, relationships, public safety, pop culture, the justice system, and government spending levels in recent times. Dalrymple in Spoilt Rotten highlights one of the most serious afflictions affecting modern advanced societies, and an issue that, unfortunately, only continues to get worse as the decades pass. 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