Book Review: The Underclass

Several major themes run through the whole book, which collectively characterize the world view of the under class. The chief one is that all of british society has wholly absorbed to its detriment the philosophy of non judgmentalism. When a man stabs some one, he says the knife went in. And along the same lines, healthy and reality based views of masculinity and femininity have disappeared entirely. A fourth is that they give no thought for the future, living in the eternal present. Concomitantly, they have no aspirations to do or be something better. Another is that the under class expects government handouts, that is, theft from the productive members of the society for their benefit