We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Richard D. NorthRichard D. North is a writer and broadcaster whose books include Life On a Modern Planet: A manifesto for progress (1995). Recent articlesIllusions of the primitive: the Stone Age meets the post-modern While modern hunting, for Roger Scruton, connects deeply to our ancient instincts, the peoples who have always practised it are embracing modernity. This is a good thing. Those, like Hugh Brody, who glorify the natural, indigenous world would entrap it in isolation and poverty. The folly of radical anthropology, academia and campaigning is to prefer myth-laden fixity to the reality of progressive change and choice among ‘primitive’ peoples. |
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