I took this from another youtube channel, improved the sound considerably because it was hard to listen to in its original form and re-posted it. Great stuff from the much missed Hitch.
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@mollybell57792 жыл бұрын
I miss Christopher Hitchens. But am very grateful that there are so many recordings of him available.
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@d.mavridopoulos662 жыл бұрын
A number of his writings are as captivating as his best recordings. Hitch-22, Arguably and 'Love, Poverty and War' are unmissable. Also quite a few of what I consider his finest essays, haven't been compiled in a book yet. For example his review of Ian McEwan's Chesil Beach, and his reflections on being robbed of his voice by the illness that eventually felled him.
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
@@d.mavridopoulos66 His worse illness was unbelief. The sin of unbelief. Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
@educateme8455 Жыл бұрын
Hitches Read books and talked a lot with a posh accent. Orwell took up arms.
@jamesnunn71817 ай бұрын
The writings are the best legacy of all
@socksumi2 жыл бұрын
Orwell is my favourite writer. A man gifted in his ability to identify the psychological conditions that lead to political tyranny. He better than anyone can predict tyranny before it happens.
@silverapples752 жыл бұрын
With a little help from Yevgeni Zamyatin...
@MarcosElMalo22 жыл бұрын
Orwell is also one of my favorite authors, but he wasn’t an oracle. He was writing what he saw, what he knew was happening in his time. He wasn’t predicting the future. It’s up to us to face our current circumstances and to identify the hoodlums and fascists worming their way into power with lies and violence.
@7777srd2 жыл бұрын
@@MarcosElMalo2 I have a hard time picking a writer I appreciate more than Orwell. Yes, he wrote what he saw and lived, but it's a shame that readers aren't compelled to read his other works beyond "AF" & 1984. "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" is one of his very best
@alocinotasor2 жыл бұрын
@@MarcosElMalo2 History repeating itself.
@6teezkid2 жыл бұрын
@@vaseofflowers4619 As of now, tyranny is so close to breaking down the doors of our ability to have critical thinking, Orwell is more relevant as each month passes. In January, would we have even believed that in February, Trudeau would be freezing banking accounts to the blue collar truck driver? Not in the least. March of 2022 is going to bring more totalitarian acts now unthinkable in The West.
@davy_K2 жыл бұрын
One always goes away from Hitchens feeling the better for it, having learned something and having some more reading to do. I miss him.
@sportsmediaamerica2 жыл бұрын
Except when you do that and then you feel incredibly depressed because you know how far away from him idiot govt. has gotten.
@eggyfog83992 жыл бұрын
Liked both comment and reply as both are simultaneously conflicting and true.
@Billdick3602 жыл бұрын
One does! One is always intellectually refreshed after listening to a master of linguistics!
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@davy_K2 жыл бұрын
@@paulgemme6056 well... one can have no faith but can also hope there is something more than our life on Earth.
@fanfayer2 жыл бұрын
I'm of indian ancestry and have read Burmese Days and I think it's a book way ahead of its time Orwell was a visionary a literary genius
@risin49492 жыл бұрын
Orwell has long been a hero of mine nad dear Hitchens has more recently become one. Now I discover this book, sheer heaven.
@thenotchosen2 жыл бұрын
Through Christopher Hitchens I have listened to so many others by audio book . I am now a completely different man a better man
@gilliebrand3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for improving, and sharing, always great to hear Christopher Hitchens talk about something/someone he admired.
@brysonyoung82734 ай бұрын
“You may not accept the idea of an utterly objective truth, but if you abandon it altogether you’ll never as a result be capable of recognizing a lie.” Orwell’s legacy brilliantly condensed in one sentence…
@marcminoguehastings29395 ай бұрын
don't ever delete this priceless masterpiece of intellect.
@numbersix89192 жыл бұрын
I say old bat ! Thank you for putting this up ! Always one of the best things is to listen to Hitchens. And he's never sounded better, thanks to your effort.
@hansderaeymaeker91372 жыл бұрын
Hear Hear!
@jr62002 жыл бұрын
Old bat. ha
@BlueBaron33392 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Sam, for making the clarity of the audio match the clarity of Christopher Hitchens' mind and words.
@brianlopez88552 жыл бұрын
We need Hitchens around these days...
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@joecaner2 жыл бұрын
How I wish we still had Christopher Hitchens to help illuminate our current challenges with his brilliant insights.
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@paulkindlon54962 жыл бұрын
Wow. Great interview. Very informative and INTENSE
@dukadarodear21762 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@7octillionatoms4762 жыл бұрын
Can’t get enough Hitch lately.
@erpthompsonqueen91302 жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@AzimuthAviation2 жыл бұрын
I can imagine his response to our situation today...
@dukadarodear21762 жыл бұрын
Me too and it's going to get worse.
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@fredflintstoner5962 жыл бұрын
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
@garylake16762 жыл бұрын
This interview is ageing like a great Bordeaux Red.
Wonderful interview. As always with Hitch, one comes away with more questions than answers.
@martinkillips1802 жыл бұрын
Excellent listening. I found this interesting and informative. Thank you.
@crazypaulinquebec2 жыл бұрын
Hitchens talking about Orwell ... it doesn't get any better than that!! Thanks for posting this audio interview SS.
@rocketpoolpki2 жыл бұрын
This is a great upload...thanks for taking the time to bring it to life \o/
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@6teezkid2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your successful efforts to improve this video; an important discussion.
@chrismathis41622 жыл бұрын
Hitchens and Orwell were two great intellects most of the human race will never appreciate
@geoffpoole4832 жыл бұрын
Neither were intellectuals. They were both hacks. Orwell was a vile antisemite (take a look in Down and Out in Paris and London) and had some cranky views. He predicted the British empire would evolve into a federation of socialist states. As for Hitchens, he was a drunk and an advocate for the second Gulf War. Neither are worth reading. Hitchens' antipathy to Islam is probably because alcohol is taboo.
@cacambo5892 жыл бұрын
I just thank god for the super-intelligent elite like you who understand all the deep ideas that most of the human race cannot?!?
@krishnan-resurrection7142 жыл бұрын
@@geoffpoole483 yes...2 wankers 😁
@gafrers2 жыл бұрын
The more we go forward the more Orwell is being proved right
@DennisNeijmeijer2 жыл бұрын
I find myself thinking about him more and more. Especially the doublespeak amd think are soooo relevant today
@donnagaffney64672 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@SuperMarry232 жыл бұрын
@@DennisNeijmeijer Newspeak is rampant today.
@donnagaffney64672 жыл бұрын
@@Johnconno well, we're moving forward toward fascism, as he predicted & warned about
@SuperMarry232 жыл бұрын
@@donnagaffney6467 I think somedy in the near future democracy is going to be taken away from us with a thunderous applaude
@funkymunky2 жыл бұрын
I could listen to Hitchens talk for hours.
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@davidhouston48102 жыл бұрын
Thank you, it is good to actually be able to hear what they are saying.
@Vorgaloth2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for improving the audio. Hitchens is so needed today. The current state of the world; particularly the U.S. being under threat by higher degree of political corruption, corporate media propaganda and critical theory ideology that is eroding western culture and values.
@gamerknown2 жыл бұрын
Where did Hitchens claim to be defending western culture?
@Sam-tz8ou2 жыл бұрын
@@gamerknown yeah exactly
@KLM738XO2 жыл бұрын
@@gamerknown one can criticise western culture, without wanting to destroy it. He did not really need to defend it from its enemies, as it is self-evidently better than others. It does have its faults, though, particularly now with the trend towards the corporates getting involved in social and governmental issues.
@gamerknown2 жыл бұрын
@@KLM738XO "particularly now": do you know how corporatism manifested in its apogee in Italy? Western culture is self-evidently better than other enemies of Hitchens?
@Mylifeisathursday2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for boosting the audio volume!
@wallacelovecraft89422 жыл бұрын
I still think about the guy from time to time. He had mass knowledge and was able to pin point a date and event in detail like no other that I have ever seen.
@DowntownsUptown2 жыл бұрын
Just as so many others have already said, "Thanks for taking the time".
@jaybee92692 жыл бұрын
I miss Hitchens…
@alanwilson84072 жыл бұрын
Too bad he let advancing age move him towards the right.
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@shaun9062 жыл бұрын
all these alarm bells are going off, but we're still shuffling uncontrollably into a nightmare 😪
@cacambo5892 жыл бұрын
What alarm bells? What nightmare? What shuffling?
@frankshifreen2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting again and improving- it is wonderful, sad, tragic to listen to Hitch- what a loss
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@thegroove20002 жыл бұрын
My man Orwell.
@James_BAlert2 жыл бұрын
Mmmh...... master slave relationship, you own Orwell!? 🤔 I'm only joking!! 😄
@MrTomte092 жыл бұрын
Excellent! There's too many videos with poor audio which needs to be refurbished. Well done!
@Zwia.2 жыл бұрын
I am 13 and read 1984 animal farm road to wigan homage to catalonia and my favorite down and out in paris and london
@andyjay73372 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the posting. Hitchens was a great thinker and writer, sometimes, saying the opposite to the popular view ie the Iraq invasion. Also, he is an absolute font of knowledge and an obvious great admirer of Orwell. Orwell ,to my mind was Britain’s greatest writer of the 20th century and my own personal favourite is coming up for air. Also, the reason I could never give up bacon, is because of what the pigs did to Boxer in Animal Farm. ABSOLUTE SWINE.
@danielbtwd2 жыл бұрын
Ironically I think that "the last man in Europe", was the perfect title. Man being synonymous with human. 1984 alludes to the future while Orwell was describing the present. I suspect that had that title prevailed the book would have been destroyed everywhere. RIP C. Hitchens, thank you.
@krishnan-resurrection7142 жыл бұрын
😄
@nadinejoyce12032 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the sound quality. I tried to listen to Hitch read God is Not Great on KZbin and couldn't hear him
@whaddoiknow65192 жыл бұрын
I am a great admirer of Orwell, Burmese Days, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, 1984, and his collected essays, letters, journalism, book reviews, etc. as published in that 4 volume set by Sonia Orwell et al. Hitchens does a marvelous job of succinctly saying explaining why Orwell was so offended both by Franco and the Stalinists. So sad that the west sees in 1984 and Animal Farm only a criticism of Stalinist USSR, and not of its own barbarity also. Napoleon and the pigs were not the benign rulers that Old Major dreamed they would be, but Farmer Jones was no angel either, and it was not for nothing that the animals sang "rings shall vanish from our noses, and the harness from our backs."
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@wolfganghager83212 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. How one can say so much in so little time is truly amazing. One comes away believing to know all about Orwell now And worth knowing.
@brianjoyce90402 жыл бұрын
Hitch was/is a force for forward thinking
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@TheWesternunionman2 жыл бұрын
W Somerset Maugham......George Orrwell......Christopher Hitchens.....the great English writers C20th and C21st, there is a direct line between them all. Vale Christopher Hitchens....thank you Sam Seal.
@JmO-ee1bi2 жыл бұрын
I really can’t believe how great this is.
@ralphclark2 жыл бұрын
It was as great a loss when Hitchens left us, as it was when Orwell passed away.
@Goreuncle2 жыл бұрын
Chomsky will probably follow soon.
@ralphclark2 жыл бұрын
@@Goreuncle what a sad day that will be. There will be literally no one of their calibre left in the world.
@jimbarrofficial2 жыл бұрын
Imagine if Orwell and Hitchens were interviewed today...in the same room.
@hansderaeymaeker91372 жыл бұрын
Heaven :)
@mikewilliams49472 жыл бұрын
Good bless the internet 😃
@DD-gi6kx2 жыл бұрын
good bless this part of the internet, unfortunately for every person listening to Hitchens there is probably thousands spreading nonsense and lies
@mikewilliams49472 жыл бұрын
@@DD-gi6kx lol. Count on it
@HidingFromFate2 жыл бұрын
@@DD-gi6kx and almost invariably they're the same ones that tell you to do your own research.
@erpthompsonqueen91302 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@dainforsythe71292 жыл бұрын
Sam Seal, thank you for improving and posting this.
@mljrotag63432 жыл бұрын
This is gold.
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@alexkalish82882 жыл бұрын
One genius analyzing another. Hitchens perhaps being the greater intellect but the lesser man. Orwell really lived ......
@Northcountry1926 Жыл бұрын
Damn, He is missed and another of his type is needed more than ever Today ❗️
@mikeeacrett96812 жыл бұрын
I have seen 1984 and Animal Farm for sale on a street stall in Beijing (they were the English versions)
@Gorboduc Жыл бұрын
Hitchens is to be congratulated for making so many points with such aplomb while apparently trapped in a large canvas sack.
@chankinlok642 жыл бұрын
There is a Cantonese version of “Animal Farm” published in Hong Kong.
@johnsharman7262 Жыл бұрын
I like how Christopher Hitchens has this almost fluid, unstoppable flow of idea, memory and feeling around the subject of Orwell; I could have wished for more structuring by the interviewer breaking in now and again to to lead and shape the answers in certain directions. This is not to say I didn't like it, but your attention can wander when certain paths are not followed or opened up.
@samseal8611 Жыл бұрын
You should have heard the interviewer getting in the way all the time before I cut him out as much as possible! Awful.
@duncr2 жыл бұрын
Leon Degralle was a rare politician who put his life on the line fighting for his beliefs
@cacambo5892 жыл бұрын
...and a Nazi.
@barbarasmyth12612 жыл бұрын
So enjoyable so enlightening. I wonder what George would have made of COVID and Government response.
@oliverellwood60592 жыл бұрын
Listen from 29.00 for reference to Orwell writing the only foreword he wrote for 1984. It was in Ukrainian, saying it wasn't anti Socialist but anti Stalin. For Stalin read Putin. History is repeating itself.
@themandaloriancreed51642 жыл бұрын
He said at beginning of the video, August 7th 2009, 😀
@lesleythompson68012 жыл бұрын
When did this conversation originally occur?
@welshhibby Жыл бұрын
I miss Christopher.
@6teezkid2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that referral. I'll read "Keep the Aspidistra Flying". 👍🏼
@eugenemurray29402 жыл бұрын
The ability to face facts... Facts don't care about your feelings
@markhalliday23972 жыл бұрын
I wonder what Orwell and Hitchens would’ve made of “fake news” or “project fear”
@LouisEmery2 жыл бұрын
To repeat a meme of this year: "Did Orwell nail it, or what?"
@riffcrescendo17402 жыл бұрын
Ya. We need the ilk of Hitchens and Orwell now.
@myriaddsystems Жыл бұрын
THANKS
@lastwerd12 жыл бұрын
Anyone know who the guy interviewing him is? - I think he is very good at drawing out CH on what he thinks by consistently, pushing him to clarify history/thinking for the "not always fully informed"...like me! ...a bit like the BBC's Melvin Bragg at his best....
@jaimejaimeChannel2 жыл бұрын
Who was the interviewer? And what year? Sorry this wasn't included...
@billybaxter63332 жыл бұрын
A true intellectual
@paulgemme60562 жыл бұрын
Atheists offer no hope. So sad. If all one hopes for are the things of this world, they are blind spiritually because God/Jesus has so much more to offer than what we can see.
@chriswalford41612 жыл бұрын
There has seldom been flummery dressed up as democracy as our Brexit saga. I wonder what would have been left of the arguments if Orwell had been able to pick them over and strip the noise from the content.
@ltmund2 жыл бұрын
I would suspect both sides arguments and lies would suffer the same from his experience and intellect. Like most people from the generation that witnessed facism, nazism, communism and colonialism i would expect that the EU would be identified for what it really is: Another European empire determined to dominate the world
@TheWhitehiker2 жыл бұрын
The interviewer interrupts Hitch just as he's making points.
@hansderaeymaeker91372 жыл бұрын
WHAT I wouldn't give to have Christopher with us today during these shamefully ridiculous times. I firmly believe he would utterly rubbish the shenanigans of big pharma, big tech, and without a doubt the cancel culture and censorship. Sorely missed now more than ever... an actual, true legend of a soul.
@michalsz.71792 жыл бұрын
well, he would have a lot to say about how Russia attacked Ukraine - and West sits and hopes Putin will end there... not a pov of Estonians, Latvians, Moldavians... so little people of his composure nowadays... hugely missed!
@deepashtray5605 Жыл бұрын
Orwell's life would make a great miniseries. Good bet both Orwell and Hitch are rolling in their graves given the state of politics right now.
@dickvarga69082 жыл бұрын
Orwell in the days of maccarthyism would have been interesting, how would he have addressed that? What did he think of the lahour govt of Allee? The death of Stalin? The presence of old ex nazis governing Austria and Germany? If only he had lived another 20 or 30 years.
@chrisperkins73312 жыл бұрын
Good interview, however I would take issue with one point Hichens makes. That is the so called appeasement of Chamberlin i1938. My father was in the territorials then and he told me that the Woolige arsenal ( the UK weapons' store of the time) was just about empty. The Uk could not fight Hitler as there was nothing to fight with. As it was, the British expeditionary force that was crated in the following year was finally sent to Europe to stop Hitler and it was virtually entirely wasted due to the lack of understanding of the Germans use of Blitzkrieg tactics against a European Officer core that were trained to fight in WW1.
@allenatkins22632 жыл бұрын
Everyone uses the example of Chamberlin as a warning against appeasement today. But, people forget there was no public support to go to war, and if Chamberlin had pressed for military action when Germany reoccupied the Rhineland, he would have been kicked out of office.
@waikukujk2 жыл бұрын
Chamberlin has been ever after castigated for "Peace in our time" but I believe he was desperatley buying time. He knew very well Britian was woefully unprepared. The time that Czechoslovakia paid for made all the difference when the Battle of Britain came.
@cacambo5892 жыл бұрын
Chamberlain, not Churchill, was the PM when the UK declared war on Nazi Germany. Chamberlain went to war not because it was easy but because it was right. Going to war after Hitler had had the chance to keep his promises over Czechoslovakia but had chosen to break them, ensured that there was far less opposition to war than might have been the case in '38. He strengthened the case for war and united the country both of which benefited Churchill when he assumed the premiership. The simplistic though ubiquitous "Churchill good. Chamberlain bad." analysis is a sure way to signify your own stupidity.
@SandfordSmythe2 жыл бұрын
The prime of England's youth were ruined by being in a stupid and needless WWI, that there was resistance.
@Goreuncle2 жыл бұрын
@@SandfordSmythe WWI was stupid, but not needless. German and Austro-Hungarian aspirations of control over Europe needed to be checked, Russia needed to get rid of the Romanov yoke, the Ottoman empire needed to fall, etc. Also, the neutrality of Belgium had been guaranteed by the UK, dishonoring such commitment would've shamed the nation and ruined its reputation. Sure, the UK lost quite a lot in that war, but it gained influence, respect and gratitude. Nowadays, France considers the UK to be a natural friend and ally, this was unthinkable before WW1, so there's that too.
@willhovell90192 жыл бұрын
What a great commentator. Eric Blair was one of the few old Etonian self aware anti Imperialist masters of the English language. Rory Stewart another possible example? The rest of them self entitled , power grabbing ignorant not nice people . Angela Raynor has the real correct noun for old Etonian Tories.....
@stddisclaimer80202 жыл бұрын
.Re: Stalin: "...out of whose bottom the sun daily shines."
@jaybee92692 жыл бұрын
A family show!
@jimlyon72762 жыл бұрын
@06:12 - Going to have to disagree on that. In my view THE greatest Polish intellectual of the 20th century was ALFRED KORZYBSKI founder of the Institute of General Semantics. which is a VERY misleading title! Applying MULTI ORDINALITY , which is words have multiple meanings ( which is why we have dictionaries ) we can discover an alternative meaning is EVALUATIONS. For the sake of their own comfort some choose to view the difference between the "sane" & the "insane" as being a difference of KIND, thus creating a false illusion of distance. In fact the difference is one of DEGREE , i.e. in the accuracy of their evaluations! Now we can begin to understand that G-S ( the hyphen is inserted to emphasise the difference from normal semantics ) is actually a Non Newtonian ( i.e. modern ) Science of Evaluations where we can use modern scientific methodology to solve life problems ( & since his death in 1950, NObody has even begun to approach the level of his work ! ) Given the low level of the conventional education systems in most countries ( the system is rigged by corrupt politicians who are obsessed with obtaining-retaining power & the last thing they want is to be challenged by an intelligent population ! ) there is a problem in that the core book of G-S is Korzybski's "Science & Sanity". Being a scientific treatise, most will have trouble getting to that level ( NOT their fault, but rather that of our education systems who set us up with a LEARNING DEFICIT & while they might train us for ordinary jobs, do not give us such basic "life tools" as PROBLEM SOLVING/CRITICAL THINKING/LOGIC to cope with the present version of the MATRIX we all suffer in ( With regard to the later, not being taught it formally, we are forced to fall back on the quite inadequate 2 valued either/or logic of the ancient philosopher Aristotle STILL built into the English language ! Given this sorry mess, I'd recommend that those who want to get to the level of "S&S" chose 5 or 6 mid level books to use as a bridge to get up to that level, starting off with Korzybski's first book "Manhood of Humanity" where, surviving WW1, he was highly disillusioned with how easily & quickly civilisation had embarked on an industrial WORLD war with all the destruction that led to. In those days people still viewed humans as being "animals with a magic spark". Clearly that shallow level of thinking can easily lead to animalistic behaviour & no doubt Korzybski had seen FAR too much of that during his service! So, in redefining our terminology & concepts, clearly Korzybski was suggesting that the time for our species to grow up was long overdue! ( & sadly still is ! ) With regards to choosing other mid range "bridging' books, I suggest there's none better than BRUCE KODISH ( who also does back pain books ). The present problem is they seem to be running out of stock & it's about time enough people gave the Institute some hints that the time is overdue for them to start some printing runs of Kodish books ! BTW don't bother with Hayakawa's book on semantics as he never even understood that G-S is actually about THE science of evaluations. I don't know what frequency with which others obtain insights, but previous to getting into G-S, mine were fairly rare. After completing "S&S" I was getting 5 or 6 a day, for SIX months, non stop! Once you pass that phase I suggest reading "The Art of Awareness: A Textbook on General Semantics & Epistemics" by J. Samuel Bois - A gentle & highly recommended come down from the rest of the mini course that I recommend for getting up to the level of a META system. - After that, going through Western psychology was like the proverbial "hot knife through butter". So the reward for my work in learning G-S was too easily avoid the rubbish that most of Western psychology is. However, there are just a few who stand head & shoulders above the rest - KURT LEWIN ( leadership-parenting styles seems to point in the direction we are born "hard wired to be democratic & sociable ) / ABRAHAM MASLOW( Self Actualising People etc ) / GABOR MATE ( trauma-> addiction, etc ) / ALICE MILLER ( who showed us that THE ORIGINAL cause of THE HUMAN CONDITION being so TOXIC is most parents/relatives/ corrupt politicians abuse children so much that 90% of our species are dysfunctional ! - To give some idea of the damage caused to our species ALL of the four "great" dictators of the 20th century Hitler/Stalin/Mao/ Pol Pot were psychopaths because they were abused children ( & that is NOT some random coincidence ! ) who when they grew up obtained enough power to act out the traumas & dramas of their toxic child hoods on the world stage.- While I pity them for what they went through in their child hoods sadly we STILL have to learn the basic lesson of NEVER EVER give power to a psychopath !
@geoffreynhill28332 жыл бұрын
Orwell was a transparently honest man and a lucid writer. His respect for TS Eliot was not so surprising since his own values might be called "agnostic Christian". "Newspeak"? A contemporary example - under the Nero-Liberal dispensation - is the replacement of the word "problem" by the weaselly, neutered "issue". PS: Hitchens himself has also been a great loss to us but you can still find him on KZbin.🦉
@workmix52467 ай бұрын
Wait did the host say this is a family show? I’m imagining who are the kids that are listening to this😂😂😂
@JmO-ee1bi2 жыл бұрын
Veritas and libertas. And honesty with humility and authenticity, the essence of courage.
@jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын
substantive choice
@johnhenninger19802 жыл бұрын
Who is the interviewer?
@richardpay82502 жыл бұрын
Russ Roberts at Econtalk podcast, and should have been credited for this content.
@daneumurian54662 жыл бұрын
Profound insights! However, re: 48:42 ff., isn't it possible to love and fear one's father? My father and I were brutally honest with each other, yet we loved and respected one another deeply. Significant paradox!
@James_BAlert2 жыл бұрын
For a brief second Dan l thought you started with 'Poundland insights...', l was looking foward to your critique!! 😀 Yes it is late at night, and l am very tired!!
@TheEleatic2 жыл бұрын
I have found Orwell’s major works absorbing and enlightening. His writing has a lasting power and influence because it was inspired by actual life experience. Does any contemporary writing possess the same gravitas? Does power and tyranny ever diminish or does it simply mutate? The only salvation from a materialist despotism is the transcendental truth of spiritual faith.
@alanwilson84072 жыл бұрын
Faith cannot be defined as truth, only as wishful thinking.
@neckoil2 жыл бұрын
i have only just found out he his no longer with us .. such a shame
@davidgee15852 жыл бұрын
Hitchens suggest the ILP was a splinter from the Labour Party, the reality is the ILP was a founding organisation of the LP along with other socialist groups and Trade Unions, the ILP split from the LP in mid 30’s and were to the left of them. The LP entered into a National Government with the Tories.
@jerryedwin85312 жыл бұрын
The interviewer is Edward Said!
@jerryedwin85312 жыл бұрын
Better query: Is Edward Said the interviewer?
@emiliog.44322 жыл бұрын
Hitchens at his best.
@dickvarga69082 жыл бұрын
Hitchens wondering about sickness and death and all too soon hewas taken by both.
@draoicht222 жыл бұрын
I think GO was close up with the ruling elites of this world and that's how he was able to write 1984.
@buggaboo27072 жыл бұрын
Interviewer sounds like Chris Hedges... but it's really Russ Roberts
@eugenemurray29402 жыл бұрын
'Land and Freedom'... Ken Loach
@jimmorris89272 жыл бұрын
Orwell predicted Big Brother but now we have FB Big Brother nobody seems to care.
@2msvalkyrie5292 жыл бұрын
Hadn't heard that FB had started imprisoning / torturing people ?
@respectfulgamer72322 жыл бұрын
@@2msvalkyrie529 Yeah, kinda lame analogy. Using FB is optional.
@reinarforeman65182 жыл бұрын
@@2msvalkyrie529 them helping the rise of fascism around the world is pretty distopian, is it not? Spying on citizens for multiple governments. Rubbing shoulders with the far-right and stealing money from the people. And spreading propaganda and misinformation.... you don't see the connection?
@niallpadden2 жыл бұрын
p.s. .... as well as a few Irish writers?
@KLM738XO2 жыл бұрын
It's also interesting that Orwell spoke of the transformation of language i.e. Newspeak. The "woke" and "progressives" are rather good at that.
@SandfordSmythe2 жыл бұрын
So are the right-wing propaganda mills. Orwell was a socialist. Don't make yourself look foolish.
@andrewmantle76272 жыл бұрын
So is everybody when they have their own point to sell.
@rogerlivingstone35282 жыл бұрын
Is there a historical fact Hitchens does not have at his fingertips?