Sir Roger Scruton's Final Video Interview: Beauty, Conservatism & Tradition. 50 Years of Right Ideas
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Sir Roger Scruton was Britain's -- and arguably the world's -- greatest living conservative philosopher and aesthete. We at the New Culture Forum were honoured that Sir Roger agreed to be one of our first guests on our fledgling show "So What You're Saying Is..." (which had only been launched a few short months beforehand). Very sadly, Sir Roger died a few months later. Our interview was one of the last -- indeed, perhaps the final -- interview he gave. We've not been able to find any original interviews recorded after this date.
This week marks the 3rd anniversary of Sir Roger's death (12 January 2020). In tribute, and as our first interview of 2023, we would like to share our interview with Sir Roger. It is one of our finest and in it Sir Roger sets out many of the core beliefs and values we hold most dear.
We hope you'll enjoy this special video.
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You can tell why the BBC never wanted Roger on.
Sir Roger Scruton was a great man with a beautiful mind. He is greatly missed.
Gosh such a terrible loss, he is much needed
There are a few public figures that I personally miss - people whose wisdom and sometimes humour shone light on the issues of the day, a person I could trust and admire - Sir Roger is definitely one of them.
Sir Roger is irreplaceable. We find ourselves without giants like him and Jonathan Bowden when we need them the most.
@@jonathancater2124 I agree. I wonder if they would go there?
A lot of respect for Douglas Murray who had the integrity and courage to defend Sir Rodger Scruton.
I am currently reading Sir Roger Scruton’s book ‘England: An Elegy’, and I respect every word he spoke.
I want to get hid books
What a person! What a viewpoint!Thank you so much!
What a wonderful kind and thoughtful human being. Thank you!
Money and political connection sums up exactly where we are.
Democracy = rule by international finance
Thank you for this New Culture Forum. I'm sad for his loss, but so happy to have seen & read this great man. A much needed balm in tough times.
Nice to see Sir Roger to acknowledge Douglas Murray’s defence in his regard but what else would you expect of a gentleman like Sir Roger.
He is greatly missed !
As a former Labour activist in the 70s and 80s and having retained "Old Labour" views throughout my life, I have to say that I regard Sir Roger as an inspiration; unmatched by any other speaker, and a person with views to which I have always concurred. Does that say anything about me, or more importantly, today's Labour Party?
It says much about the current Labour Party indeed.
I'm sure there are many, many more like you.
Unfortunately the early Labour formation had skeletons also. They were aware that the million or so tons of timber produced by slave Labour in soviet gulags and imported into Britain. Yet they wilfully kept silent fearing it would hinder their progress to power.
You used to be a left winger but one day you wake up and you're an extreme right wing reactionary apparently!
My opinion: avowed left-winger who agrees with Roger Scruton on aesthetics and communitarian values -- probably a mensch. Left-winger who despises Sir Roger's views on these matters -- probably a basilisk.
A philosophy teacher of mine was always dismissive of Sir Roger as an elitist and that coloured my desire to read much of him at the time. I'm glad to say I shrugged off that labelling to delve deeper and found him as illuminating as anyone in modern times. A great mind, and I'm glad he left us with such an abundance of material to absorb and contemplate.
I watched Sir Roger's film on beauty and was inspired by the content. As a secondary school teacher of design, I now find it easy to include beauty as a sustainable feature of objects and detatch myself and my students from the need to select from the repetitive menu of sustainable energy or recycling. Liberating experience.
He was such a lovely man, and thinker. I'm ashamed to say I discovered him only shortly before his death.
I am discovering him now. Late 2023.
Thanks Peter. How I miss his gentle wisdom, so beautifully and kindly expressed.
What a treat, and what a pleasure to listen to not only a voice of reason, but also a voice praising THE BEAUTY. Thank you for reminding us esteemed thinker, Roger Scruton, RIP beautiful soul. We miss you
Thank you for this remarkable gift and for keeping Sir Roger's legacy alive. I first learned of him from Dr. Anthony Lilles, a brilliant academic and author here in CA. I'm certain that you would find him fascinating to interview. We are so in need of all of you who keep us from despair, lighting the beauty of truth in the increasing darkness. I'm so moved to find this video today. I was just thinking how grateful I remain for Jonathan and how much I miss him. The very best to all at NCF in the New Year.
If we can make no other contribution, we can all at least recommend to friends that they read the writing of Sir Roger Scruton, whose wonderful legacy is the most secure standard around which to rally.
Journalists who are proved to have fabricated or misrepresented interviewees ought to be sacked.
I totally agree. Yet the mountebank responsible for the hatchet job on Sir Roger was actually promoted to editor of the New Statesman. Its subscribers know this and are happy to support such tactics. Tells you all you need to know about the left in Britain today.
One of the most beautiful commentators on the state of things in general.
A promoter of things that really matter for living on this 'sodden ground'
I enjoy his commentaries still..
Thank you so much for this. It was great to hear Sir Roger referencing the role of Pope John Paul II in the demise of Communism in his homeland Poland - sadly, since the fall of Soviet/East European Communism, this dark episode of history is being forgotten, treated as a mere ghost of the past, although a ghost that is still influencing our society in the shape of cultural Marxism. And it is much harder to kill a ghost.
That's a very odd comment. What is called "cultural Marxism" (and the term seems to have originated among European Neo-Nazis) includes movements like the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and French post-structuralism (often with a psychoanalytic inflection) that would have been anathema to the old culture ministries of (allegedly) "Communist" Eastern Europe and Russia, where the books of most of the writers concerned would have been banned.
Thoroughly enjoyed that! Thanks for reposting.
A magnificent and rare exponent of philosophical and cultural conservatism.
Thank you for conducting this interview. Sir Roger is such a sharp thinker often combined with elegance and wit. I'm currently a master student, and Sir Roger has been my guide to serious thinking since my undergraduate time. He is a treasure to the anglophone and I think he's too reverent to all those who value love, family and friendship here in China.
Peter Fuller should not be forgotten.
I’m so glad you’ve put this up again. I missed the original. What a man.
He's an example of what the Right in the Anglo-sphere could of become before it got captured by international finance.
"Could of"?
Great interview, Peter. Thank you.
Peter: From the suffering US, thank you for all you do. I found Roger Scruton some years ago, and he taught me that the United Kingdom's tradition of Scottish philosophers, later 19th century English philosophers had something perennial to say. Thank you.
Uplifting, thank you.
I could listen to these 2 shoot the breeze all day.
“There is a utility in the useless. And in our own lives as well. We don’t become lovable objects by being useful, we become loveable by enjoying the world and radiating our appreciation of it.”
I miss him so much 😢
Thank you for posting this, It is truly wonderful, uplifting, inspiring.
Thank you for re-posting this interview. Much appreciated. I first became aware of Sir Roger a little before, and certainly around the time of, the 2019 scandal. I wish I had heard of him sooner - but then, perhaps I would not yet have been ready! Who knows?
Has anyone noticed the disproportionate number of black people featured in TV advertisements recently? I don't care what colour a person's skin colour is, but I raise this because these adverts give the impression that the UK population is now 50% black.
Same in the US. Began about 3 years ago. Not just tv but catalogs/magazines too. Most couples are portrayed as mixed race as well.
Wisdom
Thank you
Thank you so much for sharing this discussion with Sir Roger.
Absolutely Exellent ! I'm a yank and I rather adore the new culture forum ! wonderful pieces, very important for all western countries to look to the UK for strength in our understanding of what we come from, who we are, the magna Carta, American exceptionalism, Christianity, Scientific method, private property, natural rights, for all mankind, derived from God on high.
I believe Scruton was an original human force in our time and not in the typified ways. My thanks. Carry on!
Deep gratitude for filming this. I feel like I’ve lost a grandfather with Roger’s passing despite never meeting him, and this is a fond memory
Marvellous
It feels the orcs of Mordor attacking and we are marching to our doom, to defend all we have come to know and love.
Poles didn't really wake up suddenly in 70ties or towards the end of that decade. We had attempts by workers and students every 10 years or so (56, 68,70, 76 and finally 80). The problem was they didn't work together but were revolting separately.
It was the worst news of 2020 (prior to the whole Covid narrative of course) to hear of his death. I’m sure he still had much to give, having single-handedly kept British conservative thought alive for decades. It would be fascinating to hear his thinking about the WEF, and the global technocratic takeover.
27:00 surely James Brokenshire?! at the heart of government.
Mercer, Tugendhat as well
He was a great man. I miss this English genius.
From about 17:30 Sir Roger identifies Polish nationalism as integral to the defeat of communism. The contemporary Left throughout the West has learned well from this lesson. Hence mass immigration and its dilution of national characteristics. Make no mistake, it's working. I'm writing from Australia - a country which 'stopped the boats' successfully, but still manages to lead the world in having the highest proportion of immigrants in a population: 30%. Like Mr Whittle, I too found 'England: An Elegy' an important book. Those of us who have read it can't say we weren't warned - and warned 23 years ago.
It is hard to put into words how it is, sitting in a Kafkaesque bar - dour, joyless, grim, almost poetic if it wasn't so real - in St Petersburg or rather Leningrad as it was at that time, the winter of 1989/90, and having a guy show me a TDK cassette tape (of the day), with a recording of an English rock band, how he listens to this kind of stuff and how hard it is to get hold of it, and that oh by the way, please don't tell anyone I have shown you this tape, as i will get arrested, and then who knows...
Word.
Such a wonderful interview but my goodness the buzz by a saw/grinder is just terrible.
Perhaps surprising, perhaps amazing, 32:00 and beauty..."we're not aesthetes"... until at least 34.40
What is all that high speed sawing noise?
Are those cicadas in the background or is someone performing construction work with power tools?
Can you edit out the buzzing? It’s very distracting.
Gone too soon.
Interesting how the Czechs themselves enforced these laws. What happened to these people after the collapse of the communist system?
I agree with sir Roger pretty much in everything, but why he said that the biggest problem is immigration from Eastern Europe? It is very small part of overall immigration to UK. Sure, it was legal and registrated, maybe it was more prominently seen in statistics.
I wish Roger's brand of conservatism would replace the awful variety of movement conservatism we have in the US.
Thatcher declared that ' there was no such thing as society ' Conservatism has never been about community. he must have been given a ton of cash, he was once a long haired leftie living in North Notting Hill.
Half a quote? Tsssk!
@@chrisgibson5267 ' There is only family and individuals ' if memory serves.
a right c u next tuesday
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oh wow thats a really intellectual comment
Be quiet and keep reading the Grauniad!
@@JangianTV 😂
Don’t talk about yourself like that have more pride in yourself.