The Falcon at Last Hears the FalconerTurning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. Totalitarian dictators — Putin, Xi Jinping, Khamenei, Kim Jong U to name but a few — subjugate and oppress millions, engage in illegal wars and threaten world stability and peace. Roger Scruton in Where We Are argues the most vital political issue of the time is “the question of identity”. Scruton argues those in the West “must rediscover what we are and what we stand for, and having rediscovered it, be prepared to fight for it”. More specifically Scruton argues such an endeavour “means confidence not in our political institutions only, but in the spiritual inheritance on which they ultimately rest”.