Dr Roger Scruton — Why Beauty (8) Matters

“We shouldn’t blame the vandals, as this [ugly building] was built by vandals. Those who added the graffiti merely finished the job.” Dr Roger Scruton

The 2009 video embedded above is a masterpiece summary and commentary from musician, philosopher, conservative author, and social critic Roger Scruton PhD (1944-2020).

• Presenter Roger Scruton

• Director Louise Lockwood

• Producer Andrew Lockyer

• Executive Producer Andrea Miller

I am clearly neither the owner nor the originator of this video, but I have archived it here because of its importance; quite oddly, the BBC website states “This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer.” bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p6tsd

In this post, I digress from antiviral nutrition, functional medicine clinical protocols, Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis, the critical importance of vitamin D, the utility of NAC, corruption of medicine (PDF) and hijacking of democracy by the technoglobalists, structured thinking vs collapse of the pillars of society, and the inflation/shrinkflation/greedflation scam to discuss one of my favorite topics beauty—see previous posts 1-7 listed below*

My series of notes/essays/videos on beauty:

1. Societal Architecture as Language of Life Experience and Health Outcomes (Beauty, part1)

2. Our lives need more BEAUTY (2) and less drama

3. Architecture creates the society; continuing the theme of the Necessity of Social Beauty (3)

4. World Architecture Day 2022, crumbling infrastructure, the Beauty (4) we lost

5. How we can make life BEAUTIFUL now, this week (part 5)

6. Architectural Modernism recapitulates and deciphers Medical Hubris: All mechanical + all sterility + No humanity = No elegance, No BEAUTY(6)

7. Celebrating the BEAUTY (7) of creativity, humanity, nature, in Social Architecture; The nonspoken implications of Art Nouveau

8. Dr Roger Scruton — Why Beauty (8) Matters