Perfection’s Prison
Culture Perfection’s Prison Too much disorder makes life a hell—but what of too much order? Theodore Dalrymple Jul 13, 2026 12:03 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... My computer’s wallpaper shot, the picture that comes up whenever I turn the computer, changes regularly, at whose or what’s instigation I know not, but certainly not at mine.
- ▪Culture Perfection’s Prison Too much disorder makes life a hell—but what of too much order?
- ▪Theodore Dalrymple Jul 13, 2026 12:03 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...
- ▪My computer’s wallpaper shot, the picture that comes up whenever I turn the computer, changes regularly, at whose or what’s instigation I know not, but certainly not at mine.
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Culture Perfection’s Prison Too much disorder makes life a hell—but what of too much order? Theodore Dalrymple Jul 13, 2026 12:03 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... My computer’s wallpaper shot, the picture that comes up whenever I turn the computer, changes regularly, at whose or what’s instigation I know not, but certainly not at mine. I suppose that it—or is it they?—must have some inkling of my taste, for never does anything visually offensive to me appear. Recently, a panoramic view of the Bavarian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber came up. The town was picture-perfect: not a parked car in sight, nor (come to think of it) any human being, human beings being so messy.
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