Re: Scruton, I have to admit, being a kid of a refugee from behind the Curtain, and Czechoslovakia at that, I have an *entirely* positive view of Roger Scruton Cafes (every former Warsaw Pact city over 100,000 pop. ought to have one to protect talismanically against the bad ideas and bad times of the past). It's entirely to be expected, …
Re: Scruton, I have to admit, being a kid of a refugee from behind the Curtain, and Czechoslovakia at that, I have an *entirely* positive view of Roger Scruton Cafes (every former Warsaw Pact city over 100,000 pop. ought to have one to protect talismanically against the bad ideas and bad times of the past). It's entirely to be expected, I think, that the people of Central Europe, in light of Scruton's own activism on their behalf, and how his thought gels with countries emerging from a generations long cultural genocide under Soviet communism, will find a lot of appeal in what he had to say.
I'd submit that Scruton and his ideas are far from a problem here, as the fact that Viktor Orban would like to rehab some classic buildings in Budapest isn't the problem with Viktor Orban. I'd frankly question someone's sanity if they didn't prefer those to the communist concrete piles. A little romantic connection to the past isn't a bad thing here either. Roger was an expositor of an eternal conservative instinct that will always be with us and his is more or less close to the very best and soundest version you're ever going to get of it.
Frankly, let the rad trads swear undying fealty to Scruton. The man wasn't a cheat, a crook, and certainly not an authoritarian. They are welcome to lock themselves in to his beliefs and we should hold them to it.
"I have an *entirely* positive view of Roger Scruton Cafes"
Does that include a positive view of how they're funded? Because it looks like they're funded by Orban's ministry of propaganda wearing a nearly-defunct pro-liberty foundation as a skinsuit:
"They are welcome to lock themselves in to his beliefs and we should hold them to it."
If only we could. No doubt Scruton's widow, Sophie, who's likely not a political naïf herself, thinks she is. Perhaps taking Orbanist money to commemorate her husband's legacy even strikes her as subversive. But, since Orban's ministry of propaganda finds it worthwhile to fund these cafes, it must think it'll benefit somehow.
Re: Scruton, I have to admit, being a kid of a refugee from behind the Curtain, and Czechoslovakia at that, I have an *entirely* positive view of Roger Scruton Cafes (every former Warsaw Pact city over 100,000 pop. ought to have one to protect talismanically against the bad ideas and bad times of the past). It's entirely to be expected, I think, that the people of Central Europe, in light of Scruton's own activism on their behalf, and how his thought gels with countries emerging from a generations long cultural genocide under Soviet communism, will find a lot of appeal in what he had to say.
I'd submit that Scruton and his ideas are far from a problem here, as the fact that Viktor Orban would like to rehab some classic buildings in Budapest isn't the problem with Viktor Orban. I'd frankly question someone's sanity if they didn't prefer those to the communist concrete piles. A little romantic connection to the past isn't a bad thing here either. Roger was an expositor of an eternal conservative instinct that will always be with us and his is more or less close to the very best and soundest version you're ever going to get of it.
Frankly, let the rad trads swear undying fealty to Scruton. The man wasn't a cheat, a crook, and certainly not an authoritarian. They are welcome to lock themselves in to his beliefs and we should hold them to it.
"I have an *entirely* positive view of Roger Scruton Cafes"
Does that include a positive view of how they're funded? Because it looks like they're funded by Orban's ministry of propaganda wearing a nearly-defunct pro-liberty foundation as a skinsuit:
https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/roger-scruton-and-the-fascists-who/comment/9923590
"They are welcome to lock themselves in to his beliefs and we should hold them to it."
If only we could. No doubt Scruton's widow, Sophie, who's likely not a political naïf herself, thinks she is. Perhaps taking Orbanist money to commemorate her husband's legacy even strikes her as subversive. But, since Orban's ministry of propaganda finds it worthwhile to fund these cafes, it must think it'll benefit somehow.