Just discovered Scruton this week. Delighted and relieved to find an independent, conservative intellectual of his calibre. And a Brit, too!
@Londonfogey
6 жыл бұрын
I was fortunate enough to discover Prof.Scruton in the early days of the internet about 20 years ago when I found the Salisbury Review online. He seemed to disappear from view for a while so it's good that he's now found a new audience.
@DieFlabbergast
6 жыл бұрын
In this video Scruton is putting into words - very articulately and precisely - things that I have vaguely felt for the past 50 years but had never been able to "pin down." Marvellously enlightening: I will have to buy some of his books - he deserves some of my money :)
@Londonfogey
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, particularly in his theory about why some Muslims find it difficult to integrate into British society.
@maxrawnsley1401
5 жыл бұрын
me as well
@reginaldmolethrasher437
6 жыл бұрын
Delingpole wisely mentions Thomas Sowell. What he and Scruton have most in common is a polite, softly spoken thoughtfulness, devoid of the nastiness that characterizes so much public comment. If only there were more like them, regardless of their politics.
@cinderelladevil1687
4 жыл бұрын
If someone is right or humble and is able to support his position with facts and arguments or to recognise his limitations, there is no need to be nasty. When someone arrogant or dishonest runs out of reasons he has to resort to victimhood, fake anger, insults or fuss. And then the debate arrives to convenient halt. Confusion is the worst enemy of reason and truth. A liar can be exposed if the debate goes on, but the lies of an agitator will go unnoticed if he feels threatened, because he knowns when and how to swerve into confusion.
@davidanderson9664
4 жыл бұрын
But what Scruton usually says - admittedly politely- is nasty, wrong, obnoxious and odious.
@UncleBoratagain
3 жыл бұрын
David Anderson I politely disagree, two concise examples out of his lifetime's work. The documentary about why beauty matters (removed by the BBC) and linked to that, devoting his time freely to help build happy communities by improving our architecture. Was he perfect? Of course not. Watch 'Why Beauty Matters', give him one hour of your time?
@brydenholley1904
3 жыл бұрын
@@UncleBoratagain I agree, that programme was how I discovered Roger. As a left-leaning person myself, I was struck profoundly by the things he said about art in 'Why beauty matters' and it has been fascinating watching his other videos. Watching him speak is like reading poetry. I really respond to his thoughtfulness and I too feel that it's the absence of the usual nastiness that comes with politics, which is part of what makes him so appealing. As he said himself near the start of this video, he's not primarily political but rather spiritual in the way he looks at things, and that's what resonates with me.
@loubieloujones5698
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidanderson9664 He certainly can be too sophisticated for many lefties...
@MKPL98
3 жыл бұрын
I can listen to this man for days. Such a breath of fresh air.
@rightmarker1
5 жыл бұрын
This interview is extraordinarily good. Listening to Roger Scruton and James Delingpole several things are now crystallising in my mind about conservatism and some new things have been illuminated which I had hitherto taken for granted as the natural ‘order’. I hope I’m not in too much of a minority in this regard.
@aislasinclair3489
6 жыл бұрын
In any culture that was worth teaching and learning from, Scruton would be one of the best-known people in Britain. This man is our Solzhenitsyn or Liu Xiaobo, thankfully without the evils of the Red Left and those persecutions. Let`s be grateful for that. He reminds me of Vaclav Havel, and the BBC are petrified of him.
@LuizHenrique-qx5et
6 жыл бұрын
I wish we had Buckley in his golden days to interview Scruton today.
@thejdogcool
4 жыл бұрын
I think Buckley was more part of the problem than anything else. Check out Peter Brimelow's writings on Buckley: vdare.com/articles/william-f-buckley-jr-rip-sort-of
@ladyrotha5420
6 жыл бұрын
*_Ah, that such an Incandescent Flame of Reason, Truth, and Love, still Shines in England. Hope is not quite extinguished..._*
@anurasiriwardene8264
6 жыл бұрын
Little heavy for the average man but it is a must to everybody,
@scottstephenson6002
3 жыл бұрын
Ttmft on tyy
@yanbibiya
6 жыл бұрын
I like this chap a lot. I guess I've not heard of him before because I was born in Rotherham. I don't know how to explain it. This chap decided at 21 . I'm ashamed to say how long it took me despite everything.
@wasabimanic
6 жыл бұрын
It's interesting to learn peoples back stories and how they shaped their politics. It still amazes me the times I've made the wrong presumption based on superficial stereotypes, and how many people on meeting me got me wrong.
@yanbibiya
6 жыл бұрын
CONFLAGRANS IN SANGVINE ANGELORVM I did get out believe it or not , but to be honest , I think I overshot a little and need to go back.
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
@@yanbibiya It's a rare person who _can_ un-bake the cake of their mind and its values, and one rarer yet who actually _will_ go to all the trouble, upheaval --- and expense.
@HagiaSophia1952
6 жыл бұрын
Sir Roger Scruton is a Knight of the Realm of the United Kingdom. How come the British Establishment refuses to listen to him? He is wise about ISLAMIC immigration; and its intention to displace the British people. Why do those who purport to represent us not listen to his wisdom?
@banjo234
5 жыл бұрын
The International Financiers who have led all empires and governments for recent past centuries want 'globalism'. i.e. (a one-world gvernment that their banking system controls and effectively owns). Their instrument for achieving this is 'Cutural Marxism' with its phoney "equality", "multi-Cultural" political correctness. These cunning people promote permanent instability and revolution and they have come to understand that it is necessary to hi-jack mankind's God-given ethical sersibilities in order to control us and in order to instal the kind of total global tyranny that is their true purpose. The Soviet Union was not Communism misapplied, it was a trial run that taught them that crude totalitarianism (including the mass slaughter of perceived threats to one's system) was not subtle enough to do the job effectively. In fact these people can never win in the end. There is a God and we are in an age of revelation; a process that cannot be undone. Brexit, Trump, the 'yellow vests' etc are just a beginning. We are on to these people.
@ashleyjames308
5 жыл бұрын
He’s a conservative thinker so the enemy of the far left BBC
@monzinization
5 жыл бұрын
...and now the 'Conservatives' have sacked him!
@sebathadah1559
4 жыл бұрын
Because they are sadly idiots.
@lesilluminations1
4 жыл бұрын
Inspiring. Scruton is a wonder.
@santossantander387
5 жыл бұрын
Sir Roger is a balanced true conservative who has a passion for his country and culture and as a Muslim I respect his ideas and fears. This is not just some zionist stooge!!!
@MAsk-ix4uf
5 жыл бұрын
Santos Santander Nm
@DescartesDooley
6 жыл бұрын
excellent
@jellybean3731
4 жыл бұрын
Its right to fight for what you love... for all that you believe.
@msinvincible2000
5 жыл бұрын
I ove this man!!!! Oh why can't I find someone like him, just 40-30 years younger?
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
Why can't I find someone like you, just 10 or 12 years older?
@msinvincible2000
3 жыл бұрын
@@dixonpinfold2582 hahahaha
@99IronDuke
6 жыл бұрын
Very interesting conversation. Towards the end Scruton seems to support an idea that I have had growing in my mind for some time now, that we have a really big war coming to us...
@Hollows1997
4 жыл бұрын
On war being responsible for young people becoming conservative I couldn’t agree more.
@heinoviik
4 жыл бұрын
Strangely reassuring.
@peterc9153
5 жыл бұрын
I think he will have radically changed his opinion of Theresa May by now - as I write in April 2019.
@djlow2398
5 жыл бұрын
Conservatism is not thinking of yourself as morally superior to your grandparents.
@marcusallen1567
3 жыл бұрын
Goods times create weak men
@jacirasantanna7221
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting.
@endoftheworldnews
6 жыл бұрын
sorry, James, my uncle went to France with 8 horses in 1914. I didn't get the chance to grow up with these fair beast but loved the chat keep up the good work
@peterc9153
5 жыл бұрын
Isaiah 3:12 "My people, children are your oppressors and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you, and they have swallowed up the course of thy paths". Prophets like Isaiah, and Scripture as a whole, has been ahead of all philosophers and politicians for thousands of years.
@gmedford1009
3 жыл бұрын
Eh?
@dartharpy9404
Жыл бұрын
Good chat
@Kevo216666
6 жыл бұрын
Delingpole is an excellent interviewer. I have no idea what the complaining is about in the comments.
@zoots5734
5 жыл бұрын
Oh I wish he'd join UKIP 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@wh5254
6 жыл бұрын
I do like the term "oekophobia". Actually "oikophobia" is a better spelling, I suppose.
@Ubu987
6 жыл бұрын
It is unfortunate that the term 'oik' has come to mean 'uneducated thug'.
@DrWhom
6 жыл бұрын
But the term is "oikos" in Greek, not "oik" in Anglo-Saxon.
@Omulosi
6 жыл бұрын
Dellingpole should try reading Scruton's essay 'Hegel as a Conservative Thinker' or his book The Meaning of Conservatism written from an Hegelian standpoint. As for the arch conservative Coleridge: JS Mill's On Bentham and Coleridge contrast's Coleridge's conservatism with Bentham's liberalism to show how the two tendencies counterbalance each other. Scruton's conservatism is very much in the tradition of Coleridge's.
@mmmmmark9751
4 жыл бұрын
Unsure here whether you are trying to deceive, or if you are just wrong. Plato, Kant, Hegel were pre-cursors in thought (such as it was) to Marx, then Neitzsche....none of these writers were conservative in any way whatsoever....they were utopianist radicals...ie Communists. Mill and Bentham attempted to take advantage of the confusing freedoms of the Enlightenment to introduce dangerous liberalism into British thinking...they influenced later socialists like Orwell (who volunteered to go to Spain, were he killed people). Wordsworth and Coleridge were radicals who drew their incomes from the State which allowed them the free time to write. Some of their stuff is pretty good. Roger Scruton is nothing like these people. I believe that James Delingpole (as a graduate of Oxford university where he studied English Literature) is a lot more widely and deeply read than you might be.
@legatrix
6 жыл бұрын
I'm a Labour type but Scruton is unquestionably an important voice, always worth listening to, always makes you think. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Delingpole.
@blackmore4
6 жыл бұрын
I was a "labour" and/or liberal "type" my whole life until I recently realised the full extent of the totally negative madness of Orwellian 'politically correct' Cultural Marxism which the Labour Party depends on supporting. I could still never vote Tory, so I'm party-less.
@Khayyam-vg9fw
6 жыл бұрын
This is because the "left" has been radically redefined. Even with unrestricted access to Hansard you will scour the Parliamentary speeches of, say, Sydney Silverman, Nye Bevan or Richard Crossman for the faintest allusion to same-sex marriage, "Islamophobia", "heteronormativity", "sexism", "diversity", "trans-people" or "the Patriarchy". George Orwell was right to challenge Stalinism implacably from a genuinely socialist perspective. Had he lived another 20 or 30 years he would certainly have been equally implacable in his criticism of nascent identity politics.
@bbcapryllian9337
6 жыл бұрын
aw you need to rethink your position....your party...such as it is betrayed you in 1948 and has gotten worse since then.....class warfare is only cool if you can win it..lol
@Philiptanzer
6 жыл бұрын
Class warfare is dead, class and income bracket no longer are predictors of vote. This is why the left is now creating new oppressed groups everywhere to demand their votes since the working class no longer oblige.
@JohnCollins
6 жыл бұрын
The left of the 1990's went a long way to eradicate "class warfare" and migrate it into cultural marxism. I see this when working class value-less intellectual nobodies get made millionaires via lottery or being allowed to become famous for simply being the idiots that they are. Class-less celebrities everywhere. Criminals who should be in jail getting recording deals to produce terrible music that glorifies "hood life". They get to join the "elite" with open arms. I do believe that is the trick that has been played. Just listen to high profile feminists. They are simply stupid black and white magical thinkers who encourage people to never improve themselves.
@tagfat
6 жыл бұрын
Scruton has come such a long way since the days of the Onedin Line!
@Lytton333
5 жыл бұрын
Ha ha! Very good!
@johnnicholson2070
6 жыл бұрын
Does anybody watching this know what has happened to the 'traditionalism archive', more recently called 'traditional religions archive' (I think)? I guess this channel has a similar audience to that very fine channel which seems to have disappeared from KZitem.
4 жыл бұрын
Was a BRITISH Brinkley Jr.
@normanstratford9329
5 жыл бұрын
Covered lots of subjects and speculations about the future. Universities can educate the working class students, but afterwards it is often a case of finding one’s feet in the real world. Contacts are the key, though it is not easy to work and earn money in the society when the working class is burdened with ordinary jobs and cannot enter into the elite world.
@stephensharp3033
6 жыл бұрын
He says Theresa May lacks charisma.
@GrumpaGladstone1809
5 жыл бұрын
She makes John Major look like Elvis, her leopard-spotted shoes there to hide a lack of personality not reflect it.
@reginaldmolethrasher437
6 жыл бұрын
Operative word (used by Scruton): "humbly". The hectoring, demanding tone of so many others is not helpful.
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
An hour that seemed to pass in a few minutes.
@neoepicurean3772
5 жыл бұрын
I'm a conservative and share many beliefs and viewpoints as Scruton. I studied politics, and if you're intelligent, I think it's almost impossible to do that and come out as a socialist. I object to fox hunting though, I don't think being a conservative means that all traditions must be preserved, they do need to be re-examined and they are not immune to reform or even abandonment. Terrifying a relatively intelligent being before having it ripped apart alive by dogs isn't a good hobby. I'm a big fan of boxing and MMA, if you want violence and blood take up MMA and go into the cage yourself, where both parties consent, like I do myself.
@plot9adventures
2 жыл бұрын
Is he saying a true conservative government I assume with democracy would be our best option in this country now. Would they solve this country's problems poverty would they close the wealth divide
@goldberg7019
5 жыл бұрын
its nice to listen to Douglas Murray's uncle
@yingyang1008
4 жыл бұрын
Are they seriously claiming the Tories are against mass immigration? For all their fancy chat, these guys are just canon fodder
@leilarhymeswithsheila1344
5 жыл бұрын
Mr. Fox is conservative, too. Let’s not hunt or hurt him. An otherwise brilliant interview. Thank you.
@Leatherargento
6 жыл бұрын
Ooh! "Oikophobia!" That's a good word/concept...
@AggroChip
6 жыл бұрын
Lol James Delingpole actually thinks the Tories are conservative. I know he isn't the smartest man in Britain but come on, pal
@mmmmmark9751
4 жыл бұрын
No he's not.......but he is far, far ahead of you. This is not a personal attack.....I can see from your sentence the presence of emotion, and absence of thought. James presents approx one hour of logical, coherent thought with a narrative and intelligent questions...every week. Can you do this?
@gen21617
5 жыл бұрын
Poor Love! Took all that trouble to acquire the affectations of the ruling classes at the very same time they had fallen from favour with the ruling class.
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
No need to pity him. He only brought out what was natural within him, and so it amounted to an actualization of himself, fully worth it quite apart from any crass consideration of popularity or status. Some people simply do not belong in the social class into which they are born and consequently must either get out of it ('rising', 'sinking' --- or "escaping the whole class racket," as Paul Fussell put it, into the self-cultivated "Category X") or become one of those who die a thousand deaths. They have been called _class aliens._ You had no idea of such things? You really took him for a mere snob? Poor you!
@theancientone3608
6 жыл бұрын
I'm curious is Roger Scruton a play on Rosicrucian? Certainly seems so. Love his interviews so refreshing in the current year.
@delcioalves4556
5 жыл бұрын
Up
@trackdusty
5 жыл бұрын
Planted 'Oikophobia'...yep...who planted it?
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
Paste _Operation Infektion_ into the search bar. It's a 2018 NYT-commissioned documentary which you will find rather hard to believe was commissioned by the NYT, and will go some way towards answering your question. Well conceived and made. Running time, approx. 50 min.; seems a lot shorter.
@mohammedhanif6780
5 жыл бұрын
If one can have oikophobia, xenophobia, antisemitism, then we can have islamophobia.
@nicobester8053
6 жыл бұрын
Poor old Corbyn.... he exhibits all the geriatric crankiness of an all-purpose smarty-pants. Behold! The body breathes, but the ideas are dead. In every way, Jeremy Corbyn epitomises the triumph of the embalmer’s art. Michael Foot lives on....!
@mrbaker7443
6 жыл бұрын
oikaphobia lol!
@ArnoGoldfinger
6 жыл бұрын
A lot of the Muslims I know are as woke as fuck. We should work together to deliver better quality lives for the average person.
@ArnoldvanKampen
6 жыл бұрын
These times must be appalling or at best challenging for a conservative. How to preserve anything, as it is known to us now, with a rapid development of AI staring us right in the face? I find it even hard to hang on to the religious narrative. Even the interviewer uses the term red-pilled, from The Matrix. If predictions apply, in 30 years from now, we will look back at these days as if they were the dark ages. It is going to be a crazy world and I am scared, yet hopeful, even sort of acquiesced. Even a thing as becoming 150 years old will change a ton of things in its trail. Not one ''brick in the wall'' will stay where it is. It is the biggest disruptive event, humanity has ever witnessed. The Matrix visualises a conservative world, as a safe and predictable environment, as safe as woman's womb: hence the words Matrix for the movie as a start and at the end the sentinel's words: ''why, Mr. Anderson, why?" A future solution to preserving what is known as conservatism, might end up being fake, empty, hollow and nowhere near anything true, good, or beautiful. It is going to be a crazy world.
@markhagan920
5 жыл бұрын
J
@watto84
6 жыл бұрын
Horses? No thanks...
@edsmith3312
5 жыл бұрын
Impressive ignorance displayed by delingpole at the beginning.
@LuizHenrique-qx5et
6 жыл бұрын
It is funny how, in trying to praise Scruton, the interviewer insulted him during the first two minutes.
@garymorgan3314
6 жыл бұрын
Why on EARTH does Delingpole invoke GARY LINEKER among the products of what he sees as our decadent age? I know he's a professional provocateur but he must do better than this sort of feeble-mindedness which makes of him what he execrates. Twerp.
@GrumpaGladstone1809
5 жыл бұрын
Has your post aged well?
@celestialteapot3310
5 жыл бұрын
on lslam and art, l agree with Scruton wholeheartedly, but as life a life long socialist - cultural Marxist if you like, l'll be voting for Corbyn as a matter of self preservation. Has it ever occurred to these two, that we don't all have horses and live in the the countryside? Give them two minuites in a factory, on the dole or reliant on a foodbank, and l suggest they may think very diferrently.
@Lytton333
5 жыл бұрын
Of course they don't, otherwise we'd need an extra 60 million horses and then there'd definitely be no room for anyone else to live in the countryside. Besides, why would a city factory worker be living in the countryside? Or for that matter, why would a farmer be living in the middle of a city? Or for another matter, give any city dole-ite two minutes on a horse and he'd think differently.
@afifahhamilton8843
6 жыл бұрын
Dear Roger, please get your son to read the wonderful books of Barry Long, the genuine spiritual master from Australia, who used to come regularly to England to teach, but who died in 2003, and of course the invaluable work of the very much alive Prof Jordan Peterson (Toronto University, Psychology dept).
@greyhoundsintheslips3713
6 жыл бұрын
>american interviewer
@wasabimanic
5 жыл бұрын
35:00 INFIDELOPHOBIA is THE greatest threat to the rest of the World
@TheNaZeus
6 жыл бұрын
Jesus that interviewer is terrible.
@the_9ent
5 жыл бұрын
breitbart....yuck!
@tommydudley4103
5 жыл бұрын
No, no I don't want to maintain the social order; suggests elitism, privilege and class a world of untouchables!
@chrismill9896
5 жыл бұрын
I find it irritating the way Scruton cannot seem to speak a sentence without interrupting himself all the time. Content ok.
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, yes. The damn fellow doesn't know how to form a sentence. If only he would read English belles-lettres and poetry. And when he interrupts himself, why the hell doesn't he apologize for cutting in? Irritating indeed.
@ThePleasent1
6 жыл бұрын
Its vulgar to call people to Christ, you just lost a fan Roger. Bye Bye.
@flat5sharp11
6 жыл бұрын
Scruton is himself a Christian. His comment was a slightly ironic observation on British manners.
@peterc9153
5 жыл бұрын
He meant it in the context of academia. I am an orthodox Christian and a university graduate, but would have thought it inappropriate and, yes, "vulgar", if I had ever attended an economics or political lecture and my lecturer had started pulpit thumping. Not the time or the place. Equally applicable to declaring your political affiliations.
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
It's socially crass to proselytize. You didn't know that?
@DrWhom
6 жыл бұрын
The worst garbage is collecting knighthoods these days.
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
Have one yourself.
@chrishorner3954
6 жыл бұрын
Well, he's good on music, but this stuff is pretty ordinary conservative whining.
@Lytton333
6 жыл бұрын
If you think it's just whining, then why listen to it all and then whine that a Conservative thinker says Conservative things. Honestly.. Do try and keep up..
@wasabimanic
6 жыл бұрын
An example of Leftist irrational whining
@dixonpinfold2582
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Without your sort of anti-conservative whining, some people wouldn't know he's any good!
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