Alan Moore: "We Need More Ghosts" | Watchmen, V For Vendetta and Killing Joke author (Part 1)

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@1amjapan 2 жыл бұрын

"We need more ghosts, I don't know what all these exorcists are thinking!" Beautiful. Thank you Alan.

@AllOneVoice Жыл бұрын

Is there anyone more lucid, right, brilliant, humble, charming and necessary? On top of being an insanely gifted, prolific and original writer.... Unreal.

@bengalinsky4300 Жыл бұрын

Yep, he possesses superhuman eloquence

@SanTM Жыл бұрын

Incredibly smart man, with an imagination and work that backs it all up.

@stuartchapman5171 Жыл бұрын

As a child I spent hours wandering around the ancient parts of my town looking for and reimagining the ghosts, it kept me sane. I still do this, I'm fortunate enough to live near the Mendips, once you scratch the surface there's a lot of pre history coupled with some very arcane practices. You're left to reinterpret it, as the full story is "lost" in time. Some of the places speak to you with a presence.

@dameanvil Жыл бұрын

01:30 📚 Alan Moore used inventive hard science in his book "Illuminations" to engage scientists and readers. 05:51 🧠 Moore advocates for an expanded rationalism that embraces both science and mystical ideas, allowing room for diverse perspectives. 08:12 🌌 Moore believes humans have the right to determine and supply their own meaning in the universe. 11:04 🌟 Moore emphasizes the importance of individuality in spirituality, advocating for personal interpretation and experience. 16:24 🎨 Moore sees the power of literature and art in re-enchanting forgotten spaces and bringing meaning to the world. 21:45 👻 Moore believes we need more ghosts and reminders of the historical significance of the places we inhabit.

@deadsteve2180 2 жыл бұрын

The man’s a legend! He has a Crowley-esque altar in his basement. He also paid the extortionate immigration fees for my friend Grahams African wife, so she could live in the U.K. Good man.

@natmanprime4295 Жыл бұрын

He's a Nazi who created hell, by his own admission. Get real

@Vgallo Жыл бұрын

Not exactly a neutral observer then are you , hitler helped people close to him too, so it’s not really a good measure of sincerity or integrity

@theragoooverlord5021 Жыл бұрын

Traitor to the west. He may as well pump some air into an inflatable raft and get off English land while handing the keys over to whatever diversity replacement wants the space.

@chickensalad7199 Жыл бұрын

@@Vgalloyou think Alan Moore is comparable to HITLER?!?

@chickensalad7199 Жыл бұрын

@@Vgallohitler also drank water. So does Alan Moore. That must mean he's exactly like Hitler.

@andrewcabrera505 2 жыл бұрын

Alan Moore’s novels (along with those of his peers like Neil Gaiman) had the exact effect on me it seems from this interview he wanted me to have. They reminded me that even if the world will end a cold and meaningless death, even if were all just atoms floating in space, there is more there. That “more,”created by us but also intrinsic within us, gives us all intrinsic and immeasurable value. I also wrote a full essay in a comic studies class on the difference between objective fact and a much more powerful subjective and human truth. It was specifically applying to Latino testimonio, but I think, as this interview proves, it’s prevalent everywhere. Finally, because Alan Moore is a genius and I wanna share cool facts relating to what he said, I wanna add that Alan Moore’s ways of not imposing your worldview but still sharing it are rhetorical philosophy that emerged during the more recent feminist movements. While the semantics have been disproven, the message itself still holds true today. It argues that instead of persuading people, which involves changing their worldview to fit our own, we should instead invite people to consensually put themselves in our shoes and witness our worldview, before then using the knowledge they gained to come to their own conclusions.

@oneoflokis 23 күн бұрын

What is "Latino testimonio"?

@bengalinsky4300 Жыл бұрын

He has to be one of the most eloquent English speakers alive today

@AllOneVoice Жыл бұрын

easily. and one of the greatest writers and artists in our time or any

@emmaphilo4049 7 ай бұрын

Yes, he is very personal in the way he sees the world... Even incredibly personal. Which is what makes him so interesting. Talk about thinking creatively and outside the box! People like him are so rare!!!

@TheHulksMistress Жыл бұрын

Loved this. Alan’s really got me thinking lately about how powerful writing actually is. I mean you could say the state of the entire world at the moment is thanks (for good or bad) thanks to the Bible and other holy scriptures. And on a far smaller scale, if a stranger to a town needs the local supermarket and they see a sign for the local Tesco, that’s just changed their life in a very small way. All thanks to a single word on a sign along with an arrow. So I wholeheartedly agree that writing can entirely alter our reality.

@APRS Жыл бұрын

I was speaking with someone the other day. On the topic of Alan Moore and the power of the imagination. They said they don't live in their imagination they live in the real world. I then said that literally everything with but a few exceptions to nature that you experience on a daily basis are the imaginings of people before you.

@TheHulksMistress Жыл бұрын

@@APRS it’s a shame people can be so black & white about it. Those who take pride in not using their imagination I’m sure will still daydream about their dream home and job, will imagine themselves in their favourite holiday spot when at work, will imagine their kids faces opening presents at Christmas I guess a lot of people hear ‘imagination’ and just picture Alice in Wonderland or Lord of the Rings. It’s a shame, they’re missing out on a great tool

@APRS Жыл бұрын

@TheHulksMistress yes I agree. I also think a lot of the value in having an imagination has been snubbed out with the ever growing homogenisation of culture through the internet and the modern workplace. I understand the point, which is that imagination without action can be meaningless, it is and we should guard against that. However I think the power of the imagination and its brilliance and creativity is going to be such an enormous commodity (not that it isn't already) in the future when much of labour will be automated. We are going to need creativity to build the next great step forward. I think of physics sometimes where quantum physics has boxed itself into a corner eg we'll never travel faster than the speed of light, and yet interdimensional travel although not fully understood may in fact need an enormous dose of creativity and imagination to explore and develop if it is possible to do so.

@tristramcox4615 7 ай бұрын

We need more ghosts really is the most irrepressibly Alan Moore thing

@ChannelZeroX 2 жыл бұрын

Alan Moore knows the score

@markfowler3057 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I can dig it

@markrowe5992 2 жыл бұрын

an Enchanting fellow.

@42Hybrid 2 жыл бұрын

My son just described the concept of Alan Moore, Robin Ince and Brian Cox being friends as a, “Nightmare blunt rotation.”

@egattignolo Жыл бұрын

no offense then, but your kid can't smoke with me

@walteredstates 7 ай бұрын

Ahh😂, this is why i read yt comments! Thanks, @@egattignolo @42hybrid

@chuzzbot Жыл бұрын

'That would be mental'. Touché Alan.🧦

@DæmonV86 Жыл бұрын

If we are, indeed, the highest form of consciousness then the Universe is meaningless, mayhapt the greatest Absurdist drama ever written.

@coldcoffeebear7459 2 жыл бұрын

I was just playing Dark Souls 3,so the giant killer crabs comment really stuck with me.

@nopaininpoptom 2 жыл бұрын

Very true about A.O.S, The Elephant was levelled. Like weed that didn’t quite take.

@warlockofwordschannel7901 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't the White Bear pub he frequented still there in London? A rare exception if so to the kind of desertification Alan's talking about here...

@haraldtheyounger5504 Жыл бұрын

The problem with rationality is that it is so irrational not to comprehend just how limited it is, and how easily corruptible it is. Just take the Witch Hunts for instance, the McCarthy era, voters who trust politicians, those with absolute faith in science, etc.

@popps33 Жыл бұрын

That’s a good way to call mysticism: Suprarationalism

@josef2012 Жыл бұрын

As Steiner would say:supersensible.

@lordzombie Жыл бұрын

I first heard Alan watts mention the idea that we are the universe itself and not just an inhabitant. How incredible to see that idea solve the problem of nihilism and even negate the sort of existentialists dilemma by positing that your own meaning is a meaning of the universe itself.

@theragoooverlord5021 Жыл бұрын

Following his ramblings will get you nowhere. He is an entertainer and in the 33 club

@johnirwin3276 2 жыл бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Bit of a Moore head myself. The inner world, and the outer world. Is magic the changing of the perception of the outer world by changing the person's inner world? I believe so. I do this in my Punch n Judy Shows. I make the observer believe in a different reality.

@MH-ln6pv Жыл бұрын

“Oh no you didn’t”

@phoenixkali Жыл бұрын

As a Punch n Judy-ist, I concur🤡

@thenobody9755 8 ай бұрын

I am pretty sure rocks think they are the highest consciousness in the universe too 🦔🇿🇦

@finncullen 2 ай бұрын

You're getting it.

@SouthEndDoom 11 ай бұрын

Let the Wizard Win. Smile.

@christoph7395 7 ай бұрын

Reality apologises and says this is the best it can do for you at present (circa 2013 CE).

@thenaturalpeoplesbureau Жыл бұрын

All hail our boltzman brain universe!

@AngloSaks666 17 күн бұрын

I am a Saint. Also the son of God. And I worship the ground under my feet, whatever it is and wherever it may be. My ideaspace is a beautiful golden mush.

@SloJoFonik Жыл бұрын

Moore kept saying "scientific rationalism" while describing "materialist reductionism." It's an important distinction to me. Science doesn't need to restrict itself to materialist reductionism-and it doesn't always among advanced fields-it's just that an overwhelming nihilistic closure of meaning hammered into consciousness by twentieth-century atrocity, as well as revelations of just how mechanistically we can describe the manipulations of an individual by society, advertising, propaganda, etc., emotionally lends itself to an explanation provided by cold, reductionist materialism. Look, it says, we're just dust. The death, the evil, it only matters because we're animals, simple molecule machines, effects of physics. If that cold reductionist materialism can be buffeted by the name "science," which of course has all the power because look at the atrocities it made and makes possible, that permits a person to dwell confidently in their nihilism. Besides, who doesn't want to be the answer man? Nothing can hurt the answer man. But, ackshually, dust is miraculous. Molecules? Atoms? Sub-atomic particles? Energy from the beginning of time coalescing into spectrums of waves, waves which exist simultaneously as particles in super-position, neither here nor there until acted upon by other waves/particles, and yet from which consciousness has arisen?! Phenomena, not matter. That is the root of the problem. Science describes phenomena. Phenomena are real. Matter remains mystery. Materialist reductionism paints it backwards.

@mycroftwilde4742 Жыл бұрын

*praise* I was thinking the same, with just a different lens, my guy. Alan uses the Mystic Lens overlay that he's developed over the years and doesn't want to solidify it all the way, I think. Maybe it keeps it more dynamic. It's probably tied to his ADHD and *smoke* usage - *looks at self... yeah, that's it lololol* - I posted some writing on this idea in another comment you may enjoy ;)

@SloJoFonik Жыл бұрын

I’m saying that mysticism is rational. The difference between mystical thought and scientific thought isn’t that one is rational and the other irrational, but that one (scientific thought) tends to think of “reality” as matter and energy. This is the popular (common) belief anyway, but it’s in no way what scientific practice follows. Scientific thought requires principles, rules of being, a sort of hyper- or meta- reality that determines how matter and energy change. For example, Probability dictates that things occur one way and not another (within a range), but probability is not matter or energy. It’s a principle of existence. People insist on reducing scientific thought to the realm of matter (and energy) because this gives them a sense of control and mastery in the face of bad stuff they can’t prevent; but phenomena are always described in science as acting according to principles. Mysticism also elaborates causation according to principles and states of being (it is rational), it just doesn’t limit the causes to an arena of sanctioned phenomena. Us mystics are not irrational, we’ve just observed phenomena that can only be described by principles-not simply matter and energy, but some a hyper- or meta- reality, as I said also describes scientific rational.

@SloJoFonik Жыл бұрын

@WalterBurton 2 жыл бұрын

👍❤👍

@joshsawyerstreamvods 2 жыл бұрын

from hell and swamp thing are his most fun imo

@AllOneVoice Жыл бұрын

You haven't read Tom Strong then!

@joshsawyerstreamvods Жыл бұрын

@@AllOneVoice i have not

@AllOneVoice Жыл бұрын

@@joshsawyerstreamvods very very much recommend. His lightest most fun world and characters i think. Big hearted, still intellectually rigorous but like a heroic pulpy silver age throwback too. Very worth your time. Plus great spinoffs

@stvbrsn Жыл бұрын

Fun? Try the BoJeffries Saga.

@willjennings7191 7 ай бұрын

S A Y I N K I N D

@kcgeil Жыл бұрын

Top gag.

@josef2012 Жыл бұрын

I've seen double chins,but never double bags under the eyes.Must be some heavy lids.

@Vgallo Жыл бұрын

Most of what he says is good , except he doesn’t seem to understand that diversity on a societal level is destabilising- that’s the trade of for individualism and diversity. Also Blake was a Christian

@warlockofwordschannel7901 Жыл бұрын

Not a traditional one, if you read by biography of him. Visionary hits closer to the mark.

@johnirwin3276 3 ай бұрын

So why was he buried in Bunhill Fields, graveyard for the non denominationally acceptable? Not a Christian.

@Vgallo 3 ай бұрын

@@johnirwin3276 lol oh yeah cuz his graveyard determines what he believed in life lol. Have you read anything he says about the bible? He believed in Christ, he’s a Christian.

@Vgallo 3 ай бұрын

@@warlockofwordschannel7901 meh visionary Christian, regardless I wasn’t commenting on that aspect of his personality, I was remarking on his religiosity and it’s irrelevant whether he was a traditional Christian or not, all the best Christian’s are ime.