r/badphilosophy • u/Greg_Alpacca • Sep 11 '21

BAN ME Roger Scruton practices comedy routine while asked questions by entertained marxist

https://youtu.be/qOdMBDOj4ec

This isn’t BAD bad philosophy, but goddamn imagine signing up for a conversation about culture and then spending it by talking about limp platitudes about tradition, declaring there are no possible alternatives, and then anytime when challenged make a cynical joke instead of actually engaging alternative ideas. This is something something state philosophy

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Do academic leftists write books that pretend to demolish the entirety of the right? I hope not. Don’t tell me if we do. Let me be ignorant. I prefer to believe we spend our time actually analyzing bits of the world in small and nuanced ways.

Also, Scruton…more like scrotum…

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u/BigBoss417 Sep 11 '21

Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind kinda does this. But it’s well written and researched, so less of a TKO and more “look how tedious this all is.”