When This Blows Over

What I try to tell people who are compassionate and caring - who want
to solve social problems and find solutions to alleviate society’s
ills - is to start a charitable foundation, join a church, or run for a local
political office, where the people can hold you accountable for your
actions.
Sir Roger Scruton helps articulate an important counter point in
this interview by recognizing that not only can the State be
dangerous, but so can the free market being applied to areas it is
not designed to perform well in - like culture and heritage. There
is a place for government, and a place for the free market, and a
place for collective social action. The mistake the Left makes is
that they want the State to do too much. The mistake the Right
makes sometimes is that they want the free market to assume too
much responsibility. Everyone is forgetting the importance of
culture, community, and family and their unique expressions in
each part of the world and region where we live. There’s more
to life than political power and consumerism. Part of Scruton’s
genius is that he has been able to explain this so well.
Interviewer: "The indigenous working class has no
right to be upset about these liberal conceptions of sex
and marriage because they are the ones who have
embraced them."
Scruton: "This is the biggest area of temptation, and a
culture of resistance is needed for the protection of the
working class and children who need a father at home
who have lost that. Liberal propaganda has made it
impossible to say these things, unless you don't care
what people say about you. The truth has been made
unsayable by liberal censorship."