Christopher Hitchens | Taming the Adults (The HITCH Series)

Hope you enjoy, and have a nice calendar transition :)
Music: Staring at the Ceiling - Arrange
Footage:
Christopher Hitchens - Who The Hell Are You
Merry Xmas With Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens at SMU
Hitchens and the Ladies (Beatles vs Stones)
Edward Abbey - Discours à Glen Canyon
Radio [Free] Prague (Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968)
Is a young Christopher Hitchens in this clip
The Machinist
Andrei Rublev
Vancouver Downtown Eastside
TSA America: Level Orange
Stalker
I Was There - The Dark History of the Salem Witch Trials
Rome
Roots
Prohibition Footage
Speech is Christopher Hitchens at SMU
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[@MrMoeqt]

Couldn't have chosen better music. RIP to the great, the inimitable, the eternally missed Hitch.

[@panderingpanda4770]

Miss you deeply C.

[@prycetheheretic]

Missed, but always remembered, immortal by his words and deeds. To Hitch!

[@LeFARaJ]

You never disappoint, Great work !

[@PhatCunt]

this guy was literally 20 years ahead of everyone

[@jerryklooster438]

No one can "literally" be 20 years ahead of their time. How about "figuratively"?

[@catthegipsy25]

And that's *after* he caught up with you.

[@EyeTunz]

The word literally has literally been redefined in the last few years. It's very odd.

[@PhatCunt]

Reality is subjective stfu

[@marieloftus5581]

You've made a great web site. I think you've brought together some powerful pieces. Thanks for that

[@MrKingss]

This reminds me of the article Hitchens wrote... A Life of Living Dangerously, Great video.

[@MorphingReality]

Don’t think I’ve read that one, thank you lots :)

[@shriggs55]

What a wordsmith! He is missed!

[@chadmichael8021]

I would love to see more footage of him off stage. :)

[@CraigStCyrPlus]

Yourself along with his batallion of admirers.

[@RichardDanielli]

If Hitch could rise today, he would haunt even more those who seek to install their prohibition on words. Well done Mr. Reality and Buon Natale!

[@MorphingReality]

Same to you!

[@roystonlodge]

Cancel Culture really started to take off once the giants of non-conformity started to pass away. Christopher Hitchens, George Carlin, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O'Rourke, etc. None of their successors have their level of _non-partisan_ respect.

[@john.premose]

Hitchens was a tedious bore, I've lost all respect for him at this point. He was starting to go the way of Glen Greenwald and if he had lived I'm pretty sure he would have become a complete right wing clown

[@RichardDanielli]

@@john.premose Okay

[@RichardDanielli]

@@roystonlodge If mean by non-partisan in the REP/DEM sense then I can agree. He had his causes that he was very adamant on.

[@cynthiakalousis9904]

there is no one like Hitch...

[@alexmeyjes5533]

Humans acting out of fear or greed is the cause of all suffering .

[@mariapazgonzalezlesme]

Happy Holidays, MR! Wish you a better yet gentle year.

[@MorphingReality]

Likewise :)

[@jakescorpion1]

Ignorance is and has always been our demise.

[@Snowboarder54688]

Wonderfully edited.

[@iglinovantanove6908]

Great job! Where was the clip of young Hitch speaking publicly from? 0:23

[@MorphingReality]

A BBC program about Ann Widdecombe, bit on youtube titled 'Is a young Christopher Hitchens in this clip?', and thank you!

[@Shaffaqwamiq]

god bless him haha

[@davy_K]

The only public figure I really miss.

[@slyasleep]

I love Hitch, but to compare smokong bans with slavery is a bit much.

[@fullwaverecked]

Sometimes it takes a genius to eloquently state the obvious. Hence the decline of a critical thinking society...

[@philb4462]

What specifically was he talking about?

[@scottroberts9177]

Really?

[@MorphingReality]

Harm reduction for cigarettes was the primary topic I think

[@john.premose]

He was crying about the fact that he couldn't smoke like a chimney on college campuses anymore. Just let that sink in: all this pompous rhetoric is nothing but him whining because he can't sit there lighting up while he drones on with his faux-witty stories he's told a hundred times

[@Tretas.]

@@john.premose You got all that from "sustaining a cigarette"? Not only you fail at discerning analogies, but imagine being bothered by it like a Karen lol.

[@john.premose]

@@Tretas. I'm not "bothered by it". I could care less. And he died of throat cancer too, what a shock. Not that I'm glad about that but guess what, Hitchens didn't care about his health and he died 20 years too young. But that was his choice. All I'm saying is all this grandiose pompous rhetoric was just nothing but him being a [beep] and crying about it

[@christopherhitchens163]

I think Hitch here is a pessimist, I think we a fortunately moving towards legalisation of substances. When he talks about a Prohibitionist attitude he ignore the fact that witch burning and slavery both became prohibited. I believe we should care for one another but it should be done rationally and proportionally. I don’t think advice from Hitch on matters of how communities and their psychological wellbeing are run are very valid as he himself said “that he likes stress”. If you follow this chain of thought you get to Ayn Rand, which completely contradicts Hitchens belief in socialism.

[@MorphingReality]

He did say its the one we can do most about, but there was a relatively large wave of it in the last decade