"For start the thing that most struck me about those students in the street was the sentimentality of their anger, it was all about themselves, it wasn't about anything objective. Here they were the spoiled middle-class baby boomers who never had any real difficulties to cope with, shouting their heads off in the street and burning the cars belonging to ordinary proletarians who they pretended to be defending against some imaginary oppresive structures erected by the bourgeoisie. The whole thing was a complete fiction based on antiquated ideas of Karl Marx, ideas which were already redundant in the mid nineteenth century. They were enacting out, if you like it, a self-scripted drama in which the central character was themselves."

Goodbye, Sir Roger Scruton.