Self-Control Goes Off the Rails
Screaming on the train is not just annoying; it speaks to a deeper change in ideology and mores. The post Self-Control Goes Off the Rails appeared first on The American Conservative .
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Takimag Self-Control Goes Off the Rails Screaming on the train is not just annoying; it speaks to a deeper change in ideology and mores. TakiMag Theodore Dalrymple Jun 28, 2026 12:03 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Small incidents can reveal much of significance beyond themselves: ways of thought, for example, or even the nature of cultures and subcultures. For example, on the train from London to Paris recently, I sat near a small group of young English women, dressed in the cheap, glossy, figure-hugging finery that, no matter their figures, they thought glamorous. They talked loudly the whole way and interspersed their conversation with prolonged shrieks, or sometimes cackles, of laughter.
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