Reasonably healthy working-age males who aren't working or even looking for work, who live off their girlfriends, families or the state, must once again be openly regarded by their fellow citizens as lazy, irresponsible and unmanly. Whatever their social class, they are, for want of a better word, bums.Our problem, according to Murray, is our "nonjudgmentalism." It needs to stop being okay to live on unemployment when jobs are out there. This whole article is excellent.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Bums
Charles Murray, writing in The Wall Street Journal about the solution to our cultural degradation: