Outnumbered - a liberal conspiracy to discourage parenthood?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outnumbered

I do believe it is a liberal conspiracy to encourage parents to kill their children, walk out on their spouses or just not get married or have children at all.

Are liberals evil or just stupid? 

Does any self-respecting bloke want to become the sad-faced, victim dad that is Hugh Dennis' character?

Would any woman want to be that harassed mother with out of control children who hates her sister?

Only if you are a libtard who thinks School of Life http://www.theschooloflife.com/ will solve your philosophical problems, I guess. 

I seem to have upset Alain de Botton

Swiss cheese-eating surrender monkey?

He has blocked me from following his tweets or even from retweeting them.

What a silly cowardly ugly little man, and he is meant to be a philosopher too, all because I tweeted him this morning about 40 responses to his tweets going back over a year.  That spooked him, I guess. 

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@alaindebotton Emotional experience can be transferred across the generations more easily if families stayed whole.

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@alaindebotton Thoughts are ideas that congeal coherently after settling in one's mind.

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@alaindebotton So many writers in Britain are alcoholics because so many people in this country are alcoholics.

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@alaindebotton "Power is sex for the old"? Power *acquires* sex for the old.

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@alaindebotton Unlike you, I do not dislike NE1 enough NOT to argue with them. That is why I am the better but unacknowledged philosopher.

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@alaindebotton Montaigne: "The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."

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@alaindebotton The goal of education should be to prevent the current generation from making the mistakes of the past. A hopeless task.

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@alaindebotton The youth of today is more disordered, ignorant and delinquent than previous generations: a sure sign of national decline.

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@alaindebotton The goal of parenting in 21st century Britain: to see to it that your daughter does not get knocked up by some scuzzy loser.

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@alaindebotton Militant atheists would have been religious fanatics in another age.

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@alaindebotton Most tragedies are caused by a lack of contentment and hatred of our own company.

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@alaindebotton On the question of critical reviews, abuse is preferable to indifference or lack of publicity.

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@alaindebotton It is possible to be a writer just because one feels one has a message to proclaim or a story to tell.

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@alaindebotton God, if He exists would operate through our conscience.

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@alaindebotton If we are to be a friend to ourselves, let us have a fully functioning conscience.

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@alaindebotton I sleep very well and hardly ever dream. Perhaps that is a sign of contentment, which is a more philosophical emotion.

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@alaindebotton The difference between hope and despair is a matter of interpretation.

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@alaindebotton The impregnation of a woman has life-changing implications for the participants, for better or for worse.

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@alaindebotton Our children are either a credit to us, or they are not, with all that that implies. Liberal parents are the worst parents.

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@alaindebotton Your book will only be a success if it is CONTROVERSIAL, Alain, and deeply rabidly POLITICAL. Dare you?

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@alaindebotton Rejection either kills you or makes you stronger.

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@alaindebotton Hell on earth would be if everyone who was ever born lives on forever.

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@alaindebotton Contentment is a more difficult emotion and concept than happiness.

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@alaindebotton Is one a loser or simply someone who has not yet succeeded? Is one a success or someone who has not yet failed?

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@alaindebotton Self-pity is the eighth deadly sin.

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@alaindebotton The quality of thoughts one has at our desk is quite different to the kind of thoughts we have when we are away from it.

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@alaindebotton A job is only meaningful if it is the kind of job that we would do for nothing if our finances permitted it.

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@alaindebotton Perhaps contentment is having no particular desire to go on holiday for long periods of time.

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@alaindebotton One should be rejected in love at least once in life so one can more kindly turn others down.

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@alaindebotton Very disappointing to put my name on Twitter Search and find nothing at all.

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@alaindebotton You should write about philosophy and politics and make it properly controversial this time. No more soothing blandness.

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@alaindebotton I need to be more actively disliked to get a readership of 50,000, but I believe I am well on my way.

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@alaindebotton While one can never get it right about parenting, one should TRY to get it right.

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@alaindebotton The desire to impress one's own wife is simply relationship management hand in hand with self-improvement.

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@alaindebotton I must intensify my self-hatred to attain a grander scale of success.

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@alaindebotton The most civilised way to keep a marriage whole is to have separate bedrooms and a good night's sleep.

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@alaindebotton Things are OK because one worried.

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@alaindebotton Do you envy the parents of well-behaved children, Alain, because yours is not? Sour grapes, then, rather than true wisdom.

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@alaindebotton A child's personality is formed by the it reaches 7. Still some time left to let Samuel know who's boss.

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@alaindebotton A silence with a beautiful person gives you the opportunity of looking into her eyes ...

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@alaindebotton For a long time, I've been so lonely.

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@alaindebotton That is why EVERYTHING is politics and politics ought to be wiser.

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@alaindebotton Your A, B and C list concerns about party hierarchy are amusingly petit bourgeois, and charming coming from a philosopher.

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@alaindebotton We are different people pre-parenthood and post-parenthood.

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@alaindebotton This atheist intends to create a new state religion of Anglican Islam based on the concept of Agnostic Indifference.

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@alaindebotton To be a liberal these days is to make a point of remaining in denial about the facts of life.

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@alaindebotton The licence fee is a tax on the propaganda the licence fee payer is compelled to pay for.

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@alaindebotton Good of you to say something controversial at last, Alain.

I thought they were pretty philosophical and lucid too, though some were perhaps a little challenging.  He must be terminally insecure or neurotically frightened.  He suffers from insomnia too, poor lamb, and from his tweets I rather suspect is in love with someone not his wife, and may be having trouble disciplining his son.

He is also pathetically obsessed by status:

The boundless terror of the B lister trapped by a C lister at an A list party.

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Well, I can only forgive him and wish him greater wisdom to deal with the travails of his love life, family life as he is in the process of writing yet another tome that will beat around the bush and not address the issues courageously.  He is actually starting to say bolder things now that hint at questioning the established order.  

Actually, I was going to offer to liven things up at the School of Philosophy by offering to speak to them one evening or even suggest that both of us participate in a Philosophical X  Factor type show in a Big Brother House of Philosophers ...

I suppose one can't help being a little timorous if one is so small, ugly, terminally insecure and unwilling to engage in what any self-respecting philosopher would relish - a debate.

I own a number of his books and even bought one for a friend one Xmas.  It is all very very sad and disappointing.  He used to be my hero and it is bitter to discover that his feet have been made from the clay of dried cowpats.

What is the problem with these shit frit School of Life Philosophers like Alain de Botton and Mark Vernon?

Don't they know we live in a free society?  Or is it because they already know we don't and they cannot afford to upset the liberal authorities if they want to earn a living? Fuck them to hell and back then.

The School of Life is for Libtards then, I have concluded.  Have a look at http://www.theschooloflife.com/
to see if you agree. 

Ten Philosophical Questions for School of Life Philosophers

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=499672659143
explains what they are about. 

My email to them of today:

1. Is philosophy a substitute for religion as far as you are concerned?
2. Would you say that philosophers should always be prepared to engage with people whose views he or she does not like?
3. What would you say are the sacred cows and taboos of our age?
4. What do you think is wrong with Western civilization?
5. What do you think is the purpose of life?
6. What do you think is the purpose of YOUR life?
7. Should philosophy be political?
8. Is philosophy political?
9. Should School of Life be prepared to court controversy?
10. Would and should School of Life invite anyone regarded by the political establishment as controversial to give a talk?

I hope these questions will be enjoyed and answered by School of Life philosophers to whom I hope this will be circulated. I would prefer short answers.

While I find the idea of the School of Life very attractive, I am under the impression that this school of philosophy only does light-weight and feel-good stuff rather than concerning itself on genuinely profound matters, such as morality and politics, which is the sort of thing I am really interested in.

I would be very happy to revise my opinion in the light of the evidence which would come in the quality of the answers I receive."

"Mark Vernon Philosophy and Life, 100 Best Blogs 2009, Sunday Times"

Mark Vernon - the philosopher who does NOT believe in free speech

Mark Vernon - part of the School of Life Philosophy of the Blandly Bleeding Obvious http://www.theschooloflife.com/ - an ex-Church of England priest who calls himself a philosopher has deleted all my quite reasonable and civil comments from his blog.  Perhaps my reputation precedes me, or he did not like the "tone" of them.  I therefore wonder if he is up to a philosophical discussion with me on the subject of Free Speech. 

Is he so unmanned he cannot allow them to be displayed at all?  A philosopher who does not believe in free speech is surely a contemptible shadow of a man as well as a philosopher. He may not have much faith in his own powers of argument. So why is he pretending to be wiser than the rest of us? Is he a charlatan? Or a fool or a knave? Or even a coward or a hypocrite? 

You may find his blog - mysteriously hailed as one of "the 100 Sunday Times Best Blogs in 2009" at http://www.markvernon.com/friendshiponline/dotclear/ if you wish to compare the quality of his output with mine.