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Post Tagged 'The Good Samaritan'

Practical Action in an Age of Decadence

Roger Scruton often wrote of oikophobia, the phenomenon, so prevalent in the modern West, of distrusting one’s own home, society, and cultural inheritance. The culture of repudiation is one-directional, however, valorizing “the other” at the expense of ourselves—we can do no right while they can do no wrong. Continue Reading...