"I tell my doctors that in nearly nine years of taking this walk four times a week, I have never seen a single instance of anyone attempting to clean his yard. But I have seen much litter dropped; on a good day I can even watch someone standing at the bus stop dropping something on the ground no farther than two feet from the bin.

Apart from the anti-social disregard of the common good that each little such act of littering implies (hundreds a week in the space of 800 yards alone), the vast quantity of food consumed in the street has deeper implications. I tell the doctors that in all my visits to the white households in the area, of which I’ve made hundreds, never – not once – have I seen any evidence of cooking. The nearest to this activity that I have witnessed is the reheating of prepared and packaged food, usually in a microwave."  -Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom

Let me give you a few sentences that were never true in the decades or centuries prior to 1989, but which are, by some definition, true today:

"Men give birth."

"Two men can marry."

"Black people can't be racist."

 

And we also have the old definitions, too, so now each of these statements is literally both true and false.  In other words, confusing.  Why have some unscrupulous academics sought not clarity, but befuddlement?

 

"Nothing I saw—neither the poverty nor the overt oppression—ever had the same devastating effect on the human personality as the undiscriminating welfare state. I never saw the loss of dignity, the self-centeredness, the spiritual and emotional vacuity, or the sheer ignorance of how to live, that I see daily in England. In a kind of pincer movement, therefore, I and the doctors from India and the Philippines have come to the same terrible conclusion: that the worst poverty is in England—and it is not material poverty but poverty of soul."  -Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom