Nov 09 2009
Scruton on Conservatism
A similar point was made to me when I was 15 by Roger Scruton, who was addressing my school’s philosophy society. I sometimes think that Roger Scruton is the cleverest man in the country; then sometimes I think that Noel Malcolm is. Anyway, I remember asking Roger what he saw as the chief role of a conservative thinker. The professor blinked pensively behind his spectacles. Then, in that slightly diffident way he has, he replied: “The role of a conservative thinker is to reassure the people that their prejudices are true.†If there is a neater answer than that, I have yet to hear it.
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But what if most, if not all of the usual unexamined pre-judgments are uninformed, emotionally primitive, either childish or adolescent, entirely false, and have thus over the centuries (even millennia) coalesced to inevitably create the now universal insanity, which we can now all see in full colour by turning on the TV.
The spectacle thus observed on TV now being the entire content and substance of our collective “culture”
This reference gives a very sobering assessment of the state, and the origins, of the now world created in the image of the usual dreadfully sane every-person (“conservative” or otherwise)
http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/realiy-humanity.html
Plus some references on the origins of this universal insanity, or even psychosis.
1. http://www.dabase.org/2armP1.htm#ch2 The Taboo Against the Superior Man
2. http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/jesusandme.html no Master, and hence no truly
mastered life, and thus inevitably NO True Culture
3. http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-life.aspx
4. http://www.dabase.org/spacetim.htm fear and anger rule to here