Christopher Hitchens - Village Voice Bookshop

Christopher Hitchens speaking Village Voice Bookshop

[@AFMMarcelD]

I know I’m not going to live forever, and neither are you, but until my furlough here on Earth is revoked, I’d like to elbow aside the established pieties, and raise my tumbler of Johnnie Walker Black 🥃 high above my head in honor of the brilliant mind and powerful oratory of the incomparable Christopher Hitchens. May his mellifluous voice keep on resonating around the globe 🌎 wherever free-thinkers congregate, and until the end of human extinction, I miss the gorgeous bastard.

[@lepidoptera9337]

That was very Hitchenesque. Bravo.

[@AFMMarcelD]

@@lepidoptera9337 Indeed Lepi, In truth listening to this man for years have helped my English lexicon and verbatim so much more, as English is not my native language, thanks to Christopher it has improved from what it used to be.

[@jackmermigas9465]

Nice one I miss him too. I can only imagine him now breathing fire into the minds of the world in this very volatile and scary time. Unfortunately what he has been warning us about is now well on it's way.

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

YES √√√√ 😍🥰

[@jeffmilroy9345]

He would find all those who worship and gush praise at him a crashing bore.

[@chadzoghby2418]

Hello to everyone watching this at the moment. :)

[@xslonk]

I wish I had just one ounce of this man's wit.

[@abhiseksarkar3566]

Didn't know he said that he wrote for posterity. Really thankful that he did, got to know him after his death and oh boy, did he resonated. I wish he was here today as a strong voice against the neo-religious revivalism we see everywhere.

[@1984isnotamanual]

This was shot in the now closed Village Voice bookshop in Paris

[@joshhawks7231]

“ we shall all live to see and regret a heavily armed Russia … “

[@wmr5143]

yep, and people still think he was unhinged. he knew what he was talking about

[@walterpay341]

Spot on about this per usual

[@jamesdettmann94]

Well he was wrong about one thing, he didn't live to see it.

[@1984isnotamanual]

⁠@@jamesdettmann94he wasn’t wrong he said what happened might happened and btw ISIS was defeated and there was a second Arab spring after which included Iraqi people marching (and getting shot in the street) against corruption and Iranian influence in their country and for secularism this was in 2018. That would have never happened without the removal of Saddam. Iraq is moving in the right direction. So actually Hitchens, like his hero Orwell, was right when everybody else was and is wrong, including yourself. You’ve never studied his writing on Iraq I presume? Or studied Iraq at all?

[@jamesdettmann94]

@@1984isnotamanual what are you waffling about, I was replying to the original comment about all of us living to see a heavily armed Russia, Hitchens died three years before Crimea was annexed and eleven years before the Ukraine invasion. I have studied Iraq but wasn't talking about it so calm down lmao

[@no-oneman.4140]

15th December 2011 - the day the world became a much dumber place. Sorely missed.

[@kieran5302]

Everything he's said here about Israel/Palestine is so prescient.

[@willmpet]

Oliphant produced a cartoon with a man saluting Khameinie with a drink saying, “to Khameinie who has saved us from the brutal repression of the Shah” to which the holy man replied, “Drinking in public my son?” and then saying to one of his henchmen, “chop off his hand and sew his lips together-it is written.” The people of Iran had no idea what they had caused!

[@taylorlindner4664]

Wish I had the chance to speak with him.

[@themsmloveswar3985]

And he speaks good French also.

[@princess.blumarine111]

Love this

[@woodytheduke]

wow!! He sure got Putin and russia down perfectly,,,what a man he was,,,way better than jesus

[@jeffmilroy9345]

I am sure he will be remembered two millennia from now. I mean since he denied the existence of Jesus and you do not by your own admission - what could go wrong?

[@karagi101]

@@jeffmilroy9345 Bad logic. Stalin and Hitler will be remembered millennia from now. Does that make them better than Hitchens?

[@jeffmilroy9345]

Examine your idol. He eschewed hero worship. He would spit on all of the obsequious sycophants panting his praise here with such wild eyed abandon. The secular world does not need cavillous self serving profiteers like Hitchens to demean religion and increase societal isolation. Hitchens could no more explain the longevity of religious figures than he could find a cure for cancer. He seemed perplexed as to how many athiest coverts longed for the old connection. I believe it is more than merely the probability that Christmas will be abolished as a holiday thereby ruining the long holiday respite from the worker's drudge. I will leave it to trolls and AI BS fake comments to figure it out for themselves.@@karagi101

[@jordank4889]

Howis this video 15 years old, but comments are only from the last ten months

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

asked Sergey Brin and that other dude who sont pay any TAXES 🤣😂

[@1984isnotamanual]

Must have gotten popular, I’ve been watching this videos for years

[@ph8077]

'Good to know that even my main account is censored by YT

[@maryharpley294]

What year was this???

[@tyleranyways]

4:40 38:14 57:35 LOL. 8:35 45:46 1:10:20

[@westaussieatheist]

Is that his wife wearing black sitting next to him?

[@MattSingh1]

*No, it's not his wife Carol.*

[@willmpet]

How much would Hitchens be bothered by djt?

[@elvisleeboy]

One thing we do know, is that his view would not be informed by hysterical irrationality. He would have something far more intelligent and thoughtful to say than the usual ad hominem based anti-Trump rhetoric who are unable to get past their idiotic hatred of him.

[@MattSingh1]

@@elvisleeboy *The Trump movement is comically-absurd to begin with, comprised of either fools or extreme fanatics. Nice attempt at water-carrying for this crackpot though.*

[@tai-yomaruno3680]

nice!