"Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against."
About Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
Anthony Malcolm Daniels, also known by the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a conservative English cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.
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