/lit/ - Literature

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-sir-roger-scruton-dead-21266461

He's in a better place now.

good im glad

rip in peace

Rest in peace sir

>>14522772
this is a lie right
please be a lie

He is not dead... he's still alive you liar, you are lying

Ding dong! The reactionary retard is dead!

>>14522804
https://twitter.com/Roger_Scruton/status/1216420794970136576?s=19

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https://www.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/letters-roger-scruton-and-the-meaning-of-life/

>>14522772
>old white male
Good riddance

F

Lung cancer?

>>14522772
Great man lost. What an inspiration he was. Rest in peace :(

>>14522857
Doesn't specify.

Sticky this

First Bloom, now Scruton
Old vanguard is no more

>>14522791
What happens in that room?

>>14522900
The eternal void is freed from material bound, and fully unleashes itself onto mortals.

>>14522772
It’s real?? Oh shit this is genuinely upsetting. Roger introduced me to aesthetics and art. I probably wouldn’t be an artist today if not for him.

RIP

Rest in peace dear brother

may he be able to contemplate God in the beatific vision. Don't know how was his relationship with God but let's hope for God's mercy.

I'm aligned with most of his views but that way of life can become a dry cult of the bourgeois high culture as a false sacred. Only God saves. Burn the museums.

>>14522772
F

Racist, anti-semite and architectural luddite

Recommeded viewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dl5Id8CHh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc

>>14522961
>Racist, anti-semite and architectural luddite
How could one man be just so based?

recommend his best work

I was more sad at the mexican wrestler la parka dying

*does air guitar on steel chair

good riddance

>>14522772
RIP. Mods need to sticky this shit.

>>14522772
we needed him more than ever, FUCK
a resurgence of the New Right in the West, and now we don’t have a huge Tory intellectual to temper them.

>>14522772

Thank you for being a gent, you made my life better, I will pray you a hymn before I sleep tonight, may you rest peacefully.

Who? Didn't he write a how to read poetry book or something

Scrotum...hahaha

>>14523087
tradition is (mostly) dead, anon. any political hope will be merely an aspect of the anti-tradition, the reign of the antichrist

>>14522772
Goddamn, RIP. An intellectual titan.

This is a pretty /lit/ setup

>>14522772
The only thing that helps me calm down after shocking news like this is the smooth & refreshing taste of Benson & Hedges™, the conservative's choice.

>>14523824
Fucking kek

>>14523607
It's a hoarder set up.

>>14522772
Major F

>>14522772
F

>>14522961
Can we get a version of Beauty that is above 360p?

>>14522961
did he ever say anything about race?

>>14524114
anyone who is white and conservative is automatically racist

>>14523842
>hoarder
Looks like he stripped the books back to the essentials

Coming to the end of How To Be A Conservative, where do I go next with him?

>no sticky

What happened to this place?

>>14522961
>Racist, anti-semite and architectural luddite
He's decent, but he's not THAT based. He doesnt completely reject industrialism

Thank you for your works.

Is he next?

F for Scruton

Sir Roger Scruton/Dr. Jordan B. Peterson: Apprehending the Transcendent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbtKAYdcZY

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>>14524241
As much as I enjoy him, he is a misery propagandist. I can't bring myself to care for him too much.

May he rest in peace. Sticky requested.

>>14524353
Enjoy him as an actual conservative and a counter opinion to the prevailing mindset.
Listening to him is demoralizing but he deeply cares about certain issues.

Nowadays a right winger is either a nationalist or a fake conservative that adores capitalism to a fault. I can admire Peter and Roger's conservatism

>>14524375
>>14524353
read it as can't enjoy him, my mistake.
But I can care about this rare breed of conservative

>>14522772
more like scrotum amirite

How is the /lit/ thread so much worse than on /pol?
Difference is striking, they're posting architecture and we're posting snappy twitter tier stuff

Roger Scruton - The Tyranny of Pop Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYua80VEcBk

>>14522900
Smoke break

>>14523056
Good luck. We didn't get one for Gass or Morrison, and only barely got one for Bloom. Mods hate us.

>>14522857
Caused by the act of quitting smoking not smoking itself.

>>14524550
Didn't even know Bloom died

>>14522961
RIP

Good man

>>14524114
Yes, he said to read Culture of Critique and Guenon.

ripperino in pepperoni

>>14524152
Nah just have to be white

>>14522987
The Soul of the World

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

You may be wondering why I laughed. It's because Scruton sounds like SCROTUM.

>>14522961
>architectural luddite
wtf I love Scruton now

>>14522817
Based

Fitting end considering he was paid to shill for the tobacco industry

Fitting end for a paid shill of the tobacco industry

>>14523922
I remember downloading one with higher quality from thepiratebay

>>14524179
Thinkers of the New Left

Many posts coming from Latam. Why's he so popular between spics?
I know Latam is probably the most conservative region of the Christian world, but shouldn't they like more hiberic writers?

>It's real
...bros, hold me

>>14527893
Must be from Brazil. He visited the country in his last days.

>>14522881
>First Bloom, now Scruton
>Old vanguard is no more
Yeah. Who can fill the void?

>>14528289
jesus christ

>thirteenth day of the year
>Gertrude Himmelfarb and Roger Scruton dead
Guess God's saving the conservatives from all the degeneracy in this world. Paul Johnson will be the next one, print this comment, he'll be dead by April.

>>14528293
Also dead

>>14528301
B L A S P H E M Y

>>14528301
I recognize this trip, Twinshia, is that you? Haven't been here for years, good to seem some older names are still here.

>>14528301
dead but never gone

>>14526512
reddit moment

>>14522772
Sometimes I wonder how George Eaton didn't lose his job over that shit he did to Scruton

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/roger-scruton-racism-smear/

>>14528458
If journalists were fired for lying the field woud be dead. I can't only blame him though, the conservative party were quick to throw Scruton overboard for a pat on the head from their socialist masters.

>>14522817
May you die far before your time.

>>14522951
Please, please reconnect with reality

>tfw sjws kill
Cancer 100% from the stress of last year

>died without seeing the Brexit outcome
Life just sucks...

>>14528647
Hopefully he died with optimism for his country's future. I'd be surprised, but we may hope.

>>14528647
>>14528700
Better than living to see the new 'global Britain'

>>14524241
I think at this point he'd embrace it desu. And yet the Lord, in his wisdom, refuses to take him from this barren earth.

Bump and RIP

>>14527893
Brazilian here.

He's popular in my country because we are living the future you've chosen for yourselves and longing for the past which we've both rejected.

In 50 years, if you are still alive, you will see how sensible conservatism (English, Burkean conservatism - not the evangelical American variety) can be, and how unscrupulous change can lead to cultural catastrophe. Your country will be changed, and it won't look good.

>>14528700
He was a well-known pessimist. So am I, and so should be you.

>>14530142
From Scruton's last article on the Spectator:

>For reasons I do not truly fathom I have a fan club in Brazil, and have finally agreed to turn up there to talk about the meaning of life. I am not feeling well, and the journey puts a strain on me. I stay in my hotel, reading Shakespeare. I groan in discomfort above streets where no sane man would walk, and am carted around to give lectures to crowds of young people, all of whom seem to be devoted to the task of saving western civilisation in the furthest point it has reached, which turns out to be Brazil. Maybe they are better able than I am to see the alternative is not another and better civilisation, but no civilisation at all.
>the alternative is not another and better civilisation, but no civilisation at all

Describes Brazil perfectly: no civilisation at all. Alas.

>>14530142
>Your country will be changed, and it won't look good.
Feels bad man. I'm living in one of the worse areas in England. The average person is a mutt with no concept of place, its history or its future. There are few buildings older than the 1960's. Living here is like living in a time machine. Every time I visit a nice area of Britain I know exactly what lies in wait for it. I recently visited the lake district only to see a news article saying 'The lake district needs to change to attract more diverse tourists'. The quaint independant shops will be replaced by concrete mega stores, the rolling hills will be tarmacked over to create multi-story car parks.

RIP

>>14527893
Brazilian here.
We aren't really that conservative. What happened here is that a cultural conservative wing is starting to appear. Our media, our elites follow some kind of "cultural liberalism on steroids". Take whatever degenerate shit Netflix is pushing, our media is 100% on the same side. Any kind of push for some kind of sexual restraint is seem as "medieval" and "something that shouldn't be done, since , come on it is 2020".

Some people are noticing that this is not exactly leading to a healthy society and there is some kind of backlash starting. Bolsonaro is part of this backlash.

>>14530142
>In 50 years, if you are still alive, you will see how sensible conservatism (English, Burkean conservatism - not the evangelical American variety) can be
It won't be the same. Latam has always had a ethnically diverse population with a fairly loose caste system putting and aristocratic race at the top, so it's natural your turn right embraces an old style conservatism. I can tell you that America (and I suspect Europe as well) will not end up this way. The people of the aristocratic class in America were always the same stock as the masses at large, and now that this is changing into a Latam-ish model you're seeing a (relatively justified) mass anxiety from the founding European stock. Asian and Hispanic immigrants don't simply melt away into white America within a couple generations the same way Irish and Italians did, if anything the second and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants are the ones who are the main perpetrators of increasing racial consciousness. American society has always been and will always be racial and when things truly turn right in the coming decades it will be a fucking blood bath for everyone involved.

>>14522772
No wonder the guy who thought everything non-English and made after the year 1850 was rotten couldn't handle 2020

>>14522772
literally who?

Why isn't this stickied?

A sad day for the world

Requiescat in pace

>>14531281
He was a Francophile who read several languages (even some Farsi) and whose main influence was probably T.S. Eliot.

You couldn't have gotten it more wrong.

>>14531318
liberal media bro

>>14530188
Anarcho-Scrutonism the future

>>14533102
Deliberate mockery cannot be "wrong".

>>14522772
Sad to hear. He wasn't some sort of groundbreaking philosopher, but he didn't pretend to be. And I heavily appreciate the fact that he didn't fall into the academic intellectual trap of using needlessly complex and obfuscated theories to justify what is tantamount to mainstream atheist leftism.

If there were more people like Scruton, political discourse would be different. We would have smart people saying smart things to each other, instead of having dumb people tell each other things that they think sound smart.

>>14522772
RIP, you're in a better place now.

>>14523607
It's based, but it's definitely not something for me. I like to have a lot of space because my movement is very clunky and I bump into stuff, or feel too constricted. The piano and a lot of the stuff by the walls could easily be gotten rid of. That table near the camera could then go against the wall.

So is he like...British Jordan Peterson?

>>14524409
L*ftoid non-humans aren't capable of adhering to the high posting standards of Chad National Socialists.

>>14522772
RIP

>>14533636
He can’t hear you. He’s dead. Ears stop working.

>>14530142
>Brazilian here
Stopped reading right there. Go fuck yourself, mutt Nigger scum. YOU WILL NEVER BE WHITE, DEAL WITH IT

>>14522772
A noble spirit for ignoble times. He will be missed.

>>14534732
What is actually wrong with you?

RIP

Where can i get "gentle regrets"? Can't find it on libgen

He will be missed

literally who lmoa

>>14536935
Some autistic faggot, they'll cry like this when Data from Star Trek dies too.

>>14524353
Peter Hitchens is a little more about literature and specifically poetry than Artwork. I don't think there is another Scruton in England... Ironically Scruton didn't even paint! He was no Roger Fry

>>14537817
Hitchens likes the cinema tho

>>14522881
>Bloom
Fuck, I've just learnt. I think there's now only one living British conservative that I care about. Not going to name him (to avoid the Lemmy situation) but I think most of you can guess who.

didnt he support Brexit like all other right wing retards does
now UK's in shit lmao

>>14537953

hell be fine

>>14522772
good riddance to nazi rubbish

>>14528301
he got better

>>14538009
lol brexit will change nothing

>>14522772
Good night, sweet prince.

Fuck this one stings boys. "Fools Frauds and Firebrands" is one of the most savage indictments of the pomo / neomarxist nonsense machine you will ever read, written by someone who actually has the philosophical background to get into the weeds. Reading that book (a slog though it was) lifted a great weight off me - gave me "permission" in a way to accept that Foucault, Lacan, Althusser etc weren't laying all their cards on the table and could safely be ignored.

Scruton's "Modern Philosophy" was something they said couldn't be done - a thorough one-volume survey of modern philosophy for the layperson. If you want to get a handle on that subject NO other book out there gives you more for less work.

He was always willing to defend a mystical side of conservatism - to say that this thing shouldn't be changed, for no reason other than that it's ours and we hold it sacred and it deserves to be protected from desecration. A towering intellectual and also a huge inspiration to me as a writer - always erudite, never shying away from a 10 dollar word when it was really called for, and sometimes getting into the weeds (because he had to in order to meet his opponents) but always ultimately writing to be understood by common folk. Rest in peace and thank you.

>>14534732
Based
>>14535592
Cope.

Though he might be reincarnated as something, just wait a bit.

>His upcoming book on the most meaningful and personally greatest piece of music will never be finished.
Hurts a bit. A real big bit lads.

>>14540674
Do philosophers really not have their books completed three months before publication?

Rest in Peace, you great man; you will not be forgotten.

we already had a thread about this Tory chap created previously. Please, do ccheck the Catalogue before creating a new thread.

>>14540239

>>14522772
Just read about this

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>>14540751
This thread is from 1/12/20, the one you linked is from 1/15. Sorry lad, I'll have to report your thread for deletion.

>>14522772
A great man.

>>14522772
Personally found him inscrutable desu