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"I think we are doomed through eternity to repeat this programme." - Kurt Vonnegut
The author Kurt Vonnegut - whose novel Slaughterhouse 5 is a bestseller in the US - chats to James Mossman in a wide ranging interview that covers; non-linear time, women, his kids, middle age, the American system, and the end of the world.
Originally broadcast 4 April, 1970.
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@kdavisinca
@kdavisinca 5 ай бұрын
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
@James-pq7nf
@James-pq7nf 3 ай бұрын
ive always been HONORED that i saw him in Stratford
@DamienLavizzo
@DamienLavizzo 26 күн бұрын
Slaughterhouse-Five is the most eloquent and fantastical examination of PTSD I've ever read.
@spitefuldeer
@spitefuldeer Ай бұрын
kurt vonnegut is one of the most special authors ever. he didn’t have wordsmith abilities of shakespeare or oscar wilde, but the man could tell a story that drags you into his mind. SHV being the first book i genuinely ever read, and the book that caused my passion for literature to grow. what a lad.
@shakazulu5665
@shakazulu5665 Жыл бұрын
"if this isn't nice I don't know what is" I love you all God bless you May we all find our own peace
8 ай бұрын
All these years later, Kurt Vonnegut is still one of my favorite friends on the bookshelf!
@MadonnaGrogan
@MadonnaGrogan 3 ай бұрын
Same
@Terrible0x0Trivium
@Terrible0x0Trivium 27 күн бұрын
I'm 35 and I've rarely been so moved by a book as when I've read Slaughterhouse Five or Breakfast of Champions, or Mother Night. Vonnegut's point of view is timeless, tragic and beautiful.
@sacredguineapig9397
@sacredguineapig9397 5 ай бұрын
The absolute man. So happy to see new footage. Love all you. Here we go again!
@RoseaNebulaLaeta
@RoseaNebulaLaeta Жыл бұрын
8:40 this is so brilliant - these are the ideas explored in Fight Club and Mr. Robot - that computers and machines would have to be factored in when overthrowing a society. And Kurt knew back in 1970 🤯
@lewis5384
@lewis5384 7 ай бұрын
I do believe it was the subject of his first book. You would be surprised how many of our problems today were predicted in the 50s and 60s.
@sehlordhorr8540
@sehlordhorr8540 8 күн бұрын
@@lewis5384Aldous Huxley released their brave new agenda back in the 1930s
@DenkyManner
@DenkyManner Жыл бұрын
Great writers often have these slightly crazy theories about why certain things happens in the world, their own mythos. I don't necessarily agree with him but it doesn't matter, he wasn't running for office, he can have "interesting" ideas that make us think about the world differently, if only for a minute or two.
@shakazulu5665
@shakazulu5665 Жыл бұрын
But was he wrong? Do you not see the Orwellian world we now live it? 1984 is literally the status quo nowadays. Science is now a dogmatic cult like religion and "the science is settled" when thats not how scientific discoveries work
@Daniel-nh3qr
@Daniel-nh3qr Жыл бұрын
Beautifully said.
@cappuccinobean2442
@cappuccinobean2442 5 ай бұрын
Very good way of thinking :)
@flerkk
@flerkk 3 ай бұрын
My Favorite Author. Started out with Cat's Cradle and I was hooked ❤❤
@buckshot.98
@buckshot.98 Жыл бұрын
"There's something about my teachings, or about my writings, I think that discourages everybody from reproducing."
@JackThursby-w1s
@JackThursby-w1s Жыл бұрын
An impressive deep thinking man. The story of his survival in Dresden is pretty mind blowing and deeply ironical and I think it must have jolted him awake.
@chrisneyman
@chrisneyman 8 ай бұрын
"To win or to quit" Wow.
@hilaryepstein6013
@hilaryepstein6013 Жыл бұрын
Whether you agree with his ideas or not, one of the 20th Century's great thinkers. Full of wisdom amd humour.
@sexobscura
@sexobscura Жыл бұрын
Humour is the wisdom that is like a warm breeze in winter
@A-432-Zone
@A-432-Zone 10 ай бұрын
Yes. In a way he was THE modern-day Mark Twain.
@tunkamoose1981
@tunkamoose1981 5 ай бұрын
6:36 in… “ They ( his children) don’t see life as an amusing opportunity, and I’d hoped they would.”
@davedogge2280
@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын
This is a reminder for me to either watch the Slaughterhouse-Five movie / read the book or both.
@kamandi1362
@kamandi1362 Жыл бұрын
Just read the book.
@soundspace7467
@soundspace7467 Жыл бұрын
Read the book. Now.
@ryang7759
@ryang7759 10 ай бұрын
read it!!!
@proto-geek248
@proto-geek248 6 ай бұрын
Both. Book 1st.
@MadonnaGrogan
@MadonnaGrogan 3 ай бұрын
Book excellent
@dannywhite9975
@dannywhite9975 Жыл бұрын
D quality of d audio is top notch. Thanx.
@valuetraveler2026
@valuetraveler2026 Жыл бұрын
Great mind great interview
@melissavidic2895
@melissavidic2895 6 ай бұрын
Good interview, I can’t believe I haven’t read Slaughterhouse Five. It’s on my list!
@M05tly
@M05tly 3 ай бұрын
I am sure you will enjoy it greatly, it is a truly excellent book!
@tylerlevingston2771
@tylerlevingston2771 Ай бұрын
Vonnegut is brilliant. I say is because if his thinking is correct he still is alive at this moment
@Sporky.Productions
@Sporky.Productions Жыл бұрын
If this isn't nice, I don't know what is!
@aboveman5321
@aboveman5321 7 ай бұрын
"Spinoza had already said all of this" ...
@DemonetisedZone
@DemonetisedZone 8 ай бұрын
Kilgore Trout is not a very good writer, he's more of an ideas man🤩
@stephenburke7108
@stephenburke7108 Жыл бұрын
so it goes
@qevian
@qevian Жыл бұрын
As much as I love Kurt Vonnegut, it is perfectly possible to write about women as people and not simply introduce them as a love story 😳
@alexanderacostaosorio
@alexanderacostaosorio Жыл бұрын
Women represent something that's not present in Vonnegut's work, hence, the limited and almost non-existent reference.
@dylanhatesyou
@dylanhatesyou 11 ай бұрын
@@alexanderacostaosorio maybe not in Slaughterhouse 5 but there are female characters in other novels
@A-432-Zone
@A-432-Zone 10 ай бұрын
Oh, I don't think that's what he was saying all. He almost always "speaks" between the lines. Same thing for his novels.
@SearchIndex
@SearchIndex 10 ай бұрын
That’s not what he was saying
@LuminousTurtle2029
@LuminousTurtle2029 8 ай бұрын
It also is a sign of intelligence when you know yourself so well that you know you can't write female characters aside from their being in a romantic setting. I'm not saying this is how he felt. This is how I interpret what he said. I could be wrong.
@Jamersonjamersonjamerson-or4tz
@Jamersonjamersonjamerson-or4tz Жыл бұрын
Good vibrations
@A-432-Zone
@A-432-Zone 10 ай бұрын
A true Christian AND Buddhist! We love 'ya, Kurt!
@taff6987
@taff6987 Ай бұрын
David Bowie interviews Kurt Vonnegut😮
@JayPattersonTV
@JayPattersonTV Ай бұрын
I think Kurt was smoking some trees before this interview.
@waltersolomon9049
@waltersolomon9049 Ай бұрын
He only smoked Pall Malls.
@contecrayononpaper
@contecrayononpaper 4 ай бұрын
I am not responding well.
@tonymoon7741
@tonymoon7741 2 ай бұрын
My parents' generation has quite literally kept the idea of reproducing out of my head. I'm in my mid-40s, and the chances of my wife and I having children is nil. Since the post-war generation has taken power, all of our interests have been handed over to giant corporations, the environment is on the verge of collapse, and the US is close to be run by a bunch of religious fanatics. Many of us don't want to contribute to the problems, and don't want to subject our genetic off-spring to a crumbling world. In my lifetime, I've lived through several deep economic recessions and several forever wars. I've seen our rights stripped away by them, the water become undrinkable, the air un-breathable, plastics in my food and body, and my freedom of speech limited. And on top of that, I have to live under the constant threat of getting shot in public by some mentally unstable person who was able to quickly and cheaply by guns. And on top of that, it looks like attending church will be compulsory in many parts of America.
@JLB293
@JLB293 6 ай бұрын
We just have to learn navigating infinity a bit better
@HenryCasillas
@HenryCasillas 6 ай бұрын
🌻
@manicmandownup
@manicmandownup Жыл бұрын
Peace.
@burnlastsunday
@burnlastsunday Жыл бұрын
Just finished Hocus Pocus a few minutes ago. Cough.
@PoetlaureateNFDL
@PoetlaureateNFDL 2 ай бұрын
There were no cellphones then.
@COURRUPTIONCOIN
@COURRUPTIONCOIN 3 ай бұрын
System ..........is presently......dying.
@Brian-nt1hh
@Brian-nt1hh Ай бұрын
You really think so?! Hmm the machine RNC/DNC/corporation complex is just smoothly chugging along from my viewpoint. That’s not saying it is a good thing
@COURRUPTIONCOIN
@COURRUPTIONCOIN Ай бұрын
@@Brian-nt1hh ( You R a Fed of some kind....trying to bait me .....but......) 💀 💀 💀 🤕 💀 💀 💀 B O D Y IS THE 8 th Satan will assign 10 insane ( Web Phantoms ) criminals to operate in behalf of ; Military - lnsurance - Agriculture -U S Evangelical -Vatican- Asian Christianity- Media- Markets- Technology - Energy Sector. Watch how WE allow Genocide. Because it means WE will never spot the Antichrist operate in behalf of
@turntabillist
@turntabillist Жыл бұрын
THAT happiness is mine.
@gryffonsi
@gryffonsi 9 ай бұрын
I had to laugh like hell
@marmasettesamram2024
@marmasettesamram2024 Жыл бұрын
Hi Ho
@alancawfield6549
@alancawfield6549 Жыл бұрын
Alan Arkin was sick of Acting in 1970, he's still doing it now, sort of feel sorry for him now.😆
@proto-geek248
@proto-geek248 6 ай бұрын
Mr. Arkin passed away June, 29 2023 RIP 🙏
@burnlastsunday
@burnlastsunday Жыл бұрын
Hi ho.
@kyleebrock
@kyleebrock Жыл бұрын
James was not listening... Kept asking the same questions... Glad it was Kurt that he kept talking...
@jediknight108
@jediknight108 Жыл бұрын
Hare Krishna
@ChillingCrowley
@ChillingCrowley Жыл бұрын
I feel the same about an infinite regress, we are doomed to repeat this for eternity
@BreezyE-d3n
@BreezyE-d3n 11 ай бұрын
I think we all experience every living things life for infinity
@proto-geek248
@proto-geek248 6 ай бұрын
Now is forever.
@MrMann0123
@MrMann0123 Жыл бұрын
So it goes.
@Shmarful
@Shmarful Жыл бұрын
well done.
@allencollins6031
@allencollins6031 Жыл бұрын
Po tweet
@Terrible0x0Trivium
@Terrible0x0Trivium 27 күн бұрын
And so on.
@Tiggy_T
@Tiggy_T 23 күн бұрын
Do you guys think that Mac Miller was inspired by Kurt
@stewmo1
@stewmo1 Жыл бұрын
James Mossman, the interviewer here, killed himself a year after this interview. What an excellent interviewer he was, and obviously a sensitive soul.
@andydixon2980
@andydixon2980 Жыл бұрын
That's very tragic. I could never have guessed from what I've just seen.
@richardchason
@richardchason 8 ай бұрын
​@pistachiowarcrimes6885What a terrifying note. I don't envy his psyche.
@liammcooper
@liammcooper 8 ай бұрын
Jesus
@DemonetisedZone
@DemonetisedZone 8 ай бұрын
I was certain that was Alan Watts😂
@DemonetisedZone
@DemonetisedZone 8 ай бұрын
​@@richardchason I have been near that edge and luckily stepped back. That's trauma, most times its from childhood I went into my psyche and opened up the doors 🚪😱 Confronting monsters in the head is possible You need to.. High Emotional State Discovery if traumatic event Externalise it Observe it from many angles I cried for 7 days, it was me as a boy telling my mother about my sister's strange things she was saying to boys. My mother called her up and asked her but my mother's friends were in and they laughed😱 Anyway cut to now and that traumatised little boy was still running things. He was tragic, no one ever came. All alone defending his sister. I apologised to him for not arriving until recently I told him he could now ☺️💤🛌 7 days of crying Now i feel like my mind is rewired Powerful Muscles relaxed nack, back Brain feels rewired Just saying this for ppl out there Read Nietzsche Ancient Greek Tragedy was not just entertainment It was Therapy Community trauma Gather everyone and show drama Its tragic 😭
@cshelley5658
@cshelley5658 Жыл бұрын
Watching these 2 'preserved ghosts' talk about "time"; to help revive the value of living. 🤔 Thanks for this.
@owengrubbs4050
@owengrubbs4050 Жыл бұрын
This was absolutely wonderful.
@jasonayres
@jasonayres Жыл бұрын
My dad was a fan of his writings. What can I say.. Don't worry. It's not the end of the world. 🙂👍
@bluepvp900
@bluepvp900 Жыл бұрын
That made me laugh like hell.
@A-432-Zone
@A-432-Zone 10 ай бұрын
And yet, ironically, this IS the end of the world. And Vonnegut foresaw the whole thing in every word he spoke here. And still, people in the very comments here are lightly passing him off as gifted but a little "crazy." They cannot she through the poetry when the truth becomes so nullified. This truly is the curse of the great artists.
@proto-geek248
@proto-geek248 6 ай бұрын
It's not the end of the world. Mankind's belief that he can harm the Earth is the most pompous of notions. "The world isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!" George Carlin
@naomigee1109
@naomigee1109 4 ай бұрын
Yes it is
@christopher_ecclestone
@christopher_ecclestone 3 ай бұрын
It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.
@cynthiafernandez6187
@cynthiafernandez6187 7 ай бұрын
Oh my. I love Kurt Vonnegut- my absolute favorite writer. @1:27 his response to why he writes briefly about women, is just perfect in every sense. Thank you, Kurt!
@cappuccinobean2442
@cappuccinobean2442 5 ай бұрын
I found it a bit disappointing...Why does it have to be a love story if a woman is involved? Kind of makes it seem like women only exist as objects of desire and can't drive a deeper plot.
@Karaokuma
@Karaokuma 3 ай бұрын
​@cappuccinobean2442 It's not so much about the involvement of women as it is the perspective from which the story is told. If a man writes about a woman, there's always a degree of separation because life is different for men and women. A female character from a male writer can only ever be an estimation.
@studioyosemite671
@studioyosemite671 7 ай бұрын
really and truly on a higher plane
@MrMann0123
@MrMann0123 Жыл бұрын
My favourite book of all time.
@soundspace7467
@soundspace7467 Жыл бұрын
It’s a good one.
@proto-geek248
@proto-geek248 6 ай бұрын
Poo tee weet 🐦
@moonstad6750
@moonstad6750 Жыл бұрын
he will be in the canon. mark my words. if i had heros, joe, fred, robin... those, and this guy.
@proto-geek248
@proto-geek248 6 ай бұрын
Palooka, Flintstone & Hood?
@vanleeuwenhoek
@vanleeuwenhoek 25 күн бұрын
Vonnegut looks peak stoned eyes alone.
@jessed1709
@jessed1709 Жыл бұрын
14:05 What is Vonnegut saying here? Where was he?
@BBCArchive
@BBCArchive Жыл бұрын
Biafra.
@stephenburke7108
@stephenburke7108 Жыл бұрын
Republic of Biafra (part of Nigeria, Africa today)
@ianparsons6466
@ianparsons6466 2 ай бұрын
Lol man this guy seems like a real bummer to cruz with ngl
@richardjames1946
@richardjames1946 6 ай бұрын
" ... doesn't give you the right to rule the universe "
@jdm65
@jdm65 Жыл бұрын
Looking remarkably like Swiss Toni. Being a famous novelist...
@alancawfield6549
@alancawfield6549 Жыл бұрын
Writing a novel is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman, you find a quiet place to do it, you make sure you have enough lead in your pencil and then you keep going until you've reached a satisfying climax.
@MartinCellarDJ
@MartinCellarDJ Жыл бұрын
​@@alancawfield6549 superb.
@kerrieannebaker8595
@kerrieannebaker8595 7 ай бұрын
america, the collective narcissist
@Notme5-5
@Notme5-5 Ай бұрын
🍃🍃🍃
@Appleblade
@Appleblade 3 ай бұрын
Woosh! ... 1:20... right over the dull perception of the interviewer. At the end, Vonnegut manages to provide the bona fides for eternal recurrence or multiple worlds with the Spinoza reference, but makes clear he came by the opinion honestly (even as a American).
@cartoonvandal
@cartoonvandal 6 ай бұрын
I mean, clearly, he's no Ballard, but he's alright.
@faithbad666
@faithbad666 Жыл бұрын
We All Live Like that...mind in the present, past & future
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