{"id":13266,"date":"2020-01-20T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T16:05:41","slug":"13266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13266","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Roger Scruton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many people under the influence of science, and particularly neuro-nonsense, will say the sacred is an old concept, it\u2019s just a hangover, but you can easily see that\u2019s not so, because everyone has a sense of desecration: there are things everybody values which, when they are spoiled, are not just moved or destroyed, they are desecrated. Something that is vital not just to you but the world. People have this sense when they see their towns pulled apart and concrete blocks put in the middle of them. You only have to look at Aberdeen to see what happens to a beautiful place when the desecrators get their hands on it. <\/p>Roger Scruton, The Soul of the World<\/em><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Conservative author Roger Scruton died last week. He is being remembered by many as a generous, thoughtful man<\/a> who said stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politician Daniel Hannan said, “Roger Scruton changed the course of my life. He addressed my school\u2019s philosophy society when I was 16, speaking so compellingly about Wittgenstein and language that, when he finished, no one wanted to ask the first question. So, more to fill an awkward silence than anything else, I stuck my hand up and asked him what he saw as the role of a conservative thinker. \u2018The role of a conservative thinker,\u2019 he replied, in his charmingly diffident manner, \u2018is to reassure the people that their prejudices are true.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That beautiful aper\u00e7u never left me.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people under the influence of science, and particularly neuro-nonsense, will say the sacred is an old concept, it\u2019s just a hangover, but you can easily see that\u2019s not so, because everyone has a sense of desecration: there are things everybody values which, when they are spoiled, are not just moved or destroyed, they are … Continue reading Remembering Roger Scruton<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[2413],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-roger-scruton"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}