Victim of the Welfare State

For over a century progressives have dined out on the misery of the poor. It was
all the fault of capitalism, they said. It was the inevitable consequence of
an uncaring society blinded by a mean-spirited ideology to the sufferings of the poor and
the unfortunate, the helpless
victims of ruthless capitalism. But after a century of the welfare state,
we are seeing another kind of victim, people victimized by the culture and the ethos
of the rule of the experts.
Minette Marrin
tells the story of one such victim, memorialized in Stuart: a Life Backwards, by Alexander Masters.
It’s a story of abuse and incest, and step-parenting. Of course.