Dalrymple e os "Miserablists"

Novo livro de Theodore Dalrymple The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism. Ele fala da fraqueza do ocidente: In The New Vichy Syndrome, Dalrymple tackles the issue of the Islamization of Europe in measured tones, and while he clearly does not think much of Islam as a religio-political system, he places primary responsibility, and correctly in my opinion, on the Western world for the problems it is causing for us. He identifies the Muhammad cartoon crises as a much more crucial test of leadership than the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq: a test President Bush and other Western leaders failed miserably. In fact, Dalrymple characterizes the overall modern attitude as “miserablist,” meaning that while the Western world is better off than ever before by all material measure, there is a creeping malaise and sense of doom hanging over the West