Very well said, Echoes of Alfred The Great. I would love to meet this guy and show him Cragside House in Northumberland. It defines the spirit of his speech very much.. The innovation coupled with beauty and being of a place.
you're spot on. My gripe with liberalism was it's faith in the market and especially the faith in the good will of other. Mises wrote Liberalism, but later realised his mistake and admitted this in Planned Chaos. He saw that some people are hell bent on chaos - the communists for example. A liberal society will not be able to guard against the weaponisation of foreign states because it assumes international good will.
This might be the single most glorious speech I have ever heard! We are the fish in the water. We do not realise we are in water. It's always been there. None but us are English though. The rest of the world does look up to us, because we achieved the greatest civilisation, for the longest time, that there has been. NOTHING is as fine as Common Law! Where it has been established, all people obtain greater justice than any other system. That's us! We did that!! Thank you Yoram Hazony for your perspicacity and for holding up a mirror, that we might see. We love all other countries and peoples, because we were fortunate enough to be dealt a great hand, and want nothing more than that others share in the blessings.
Thank you 🙂of course the modern left want to tear that down. Those early Brits laid foundations for democracy. And now I find conservatism helps me feel stronger. As well as my religious faith
Unlimited migration is ok (or mostly) if: 1) Private Property Rights of all individuals is safely guarded. 2) Tolerance for Bible publication and discourses (free speech on those historical things) is openly or even legally held as the social barometer of freedom & responsibility in all venues and fields. (Historicism can be discussed without things being the end of reality or individual choice or personal dignity - to the contrary, contemporary belief in the Scriptures adds to human dignity and that seems to have been the case since people could read it independently in their own language or hear it freely proclaimed in the streets without official burdens added.) 3) The confiscatory & controlling Welfare State is abolished or minimized into almost invisible irrelevancy. Let 'private' or personal accountability & volunteerism have its celebrated, free, responsible contribution. The taxation-and-monitoring state cannot be virtuous and wealthy without a virtuous group it represents - and if the group it represents are already virtuous then what need have they of the state to take from them by force or monitor them by force? If these 3 are met: Then sure! Come! Migrate all around. For the most part. And if you can survive on your own and find your own land to do it on - great! Otherwise, you probably cannot afford to on your own. And if you want to camp out on the street and someone provides a tent? There should be a few days limit to that and security should be tight.
My reading of Roger Scruton’s reading of Hegel is that freedom is somewhat paradoxical; it’s fundamentally about relationship and therefore responsibility. That should come as no surprise but Hegel’s Master and Servant (or Lord and Bondsman) tends to invoke connotations of a more antagonistic ‘Master and Slave’ dichotomy rather than dialectic. An ‘oppressed’ woman achieves emancipation, she is no longer dependent but independent, empowered feminist... but why not interdependent? Too much like compromise?
Yes this is Hegel's point; that freedom is paradoxical, because it is precisely through our relations to other people that it becomes possible, but those same obligations set the conditions and limits of that freedom. Heidegger, building on Hegel, talks about 'thrown-ness' in addition; by this he means that philosophers like Descartes, Rousseau, and Locke make a mistake when they theorise from a kind of base-zero, a state of nature, or whatever. We're never like that. We're always thrown into the world, things already going on all around us, with particular relations to particular people and places, duties we didn't choose, but that's just human life: it can be complicated and messy but if we can at least acknowledge it and not simply follow the herd then we can begin to live an authentic life, grounded in an ethics of responsibility. The great Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas also built on this in his ethical philosophy of the encounter with another human being, another face, to whom I immediately understand I have an obligation of some sort towards, even if just to take into account in my decisions.
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Because of what lies there. Palestine is full of hatred, terrorism, extremism and far too many that are on the side of Pakistan, Afghanistan etc. Yes that creates collateral damage. But if I offer you the opportunity for Britain to open its doors to million of extremists that want us dead, would you let them have an open border to your country? It just isn't as simple as that.
Because of all the stateless nations out there, the Palestinians have done the least to prove to the world that they deserve a state. The Palestinians are a nation, people. But they are, and do not deserve a state. The Kurds deserve a state. Tibetans deserve a state. The palestinians do not.
Douglas Murray has also found that denying the existence of God has led to all truth, tradition and culture being undermined. That's why he never joined Harris and Dawkins in their atheist crusade. Excellent speech...full of wisdom and guidance. Very beneficial. God save the king and may this kingdom be united.
They look to Britain with hope because they know this is the greatest nation to ever exist.. and will never be beaten we are the centre of the galaxy.. we are the heart and the engine we have far too much for any muppets to ever have a chance
If the English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish people need any advice on how to save their nation's, they won't be skyping this foreign man, bless his deceptive heart🕊️❤️🙏☘️
The Britain you all think used to exist, never actually did. The British empire was backed up by its colonies right up to the end. After brexit was carried you are looking at Britain standing alone for the very first time. Maybe it could build something interesting, but I doubt it considering how it’s going.
A very fine speech, thank you! I take issue with many things. It was a polemic for nationalism and a tirade against what Hazony calls “woke neo-Marxism”. He invokes William Blake as one of Britain’s greats. Blake was a precursor to anarchism. He acknowledge the divine in everyone, and that all had the spark of creativity, of the divine. Hazony clearly has a “great man” view of history. Is he not aware of the great tradition of working class co-operatives that strengthened communities from the industrial revolution onwards. No mention of Robert Owen, for one. According to Hazony, we can only have a sense of identity through a shared religion, procreation in a nuclear family, and military service and being ready to die for your country. In other words, God, Monarch, and Family as the cornerstones of a “civilised” society. Those raging wars do not fight them. The authority that once existed; of a peasantry, or latterly Sun readers and GB News viewers doffing their baseball caps to you has now gone. A new conformity is therefore needed. This seems like an authoritarian nation state to me. Indeed, what do you call a person who is party to his own domination and servitude? _Ni Dieu, ni maître_ ! We need a decentralised democracy. Only a classless, stateless moneyless society can overcome authoritarian government control and a passive electorate. This is what we need.
You are bastardising what he said. That is not what he is saying at all. Nationalism is wonderful if it is rooted in our history, community, achievements, family etc. The alternative, as he says, it what we have now. It is a horror show, because so many that preach woke, want perfection - typical communists. They work in collectives, as puritans but devoid of facts and roots. Perfection is not of this life, and utopia is never achieved but the pursuit of it sees bloodshed and destruction. National conservatism is about working with the grain of nature, not pretending life is perfect and not trying to fight nature either. Individual liberty can only have meaning when it honours and understands its responsibility to its community, its history etc to preserve the foundations of the future. In this way all sides can be one country - working class, middle class and upper class (not that those labels have much meaning anymore). The original Left and Right and everything in between didn't disagree on culture. They disagreed on economics and where money is spent - that is a fine battleground to have debates and move forward. What we have now is our culture being destroyed and uniting both the traditional Left and Right in a move to restore this. There is nothing one sided about national conservatism. It belongs to the majority of us. What I see now is a vast number of young, ignorant, entitled, moaning, ungrateful, poorly educated (but believe they are educated) people under 40 that are all unhappy. That is what their own ideology has done to them. When you take adults away as well as hierarchy and discipline - this is the result - nothing works, society declines, and the extremist Left think it is thew ay to be for some unknown reason given the data and observable facts.
@@markkavanagh7377 Conservatives love the sacred, and tradition; duty, honour, and the family. They just don't like people, especially those they feel superior to. Democracy is anathema to people like you. The UK government is exactly your government: reatrictive, authoritarian, and corrupt in favour of the wealthy.
@@richardwills-woodward5340 The crux of what you say, Nationalism is wonderful; the Left, woke - typical communists. The Right’s utopia, Israel for example, has not been achieved without bloodshed, has it? I won't mention the Nat.C.'s namesakes in the 1930/40's. You clearly hate the young: ignorant, entitled, moaning, ungrateful, poorly educated. All I hear is the waxing lyrical on an ethno-nationalist utopia, and dog-whistles.
