Bill Moyers interviews culture critic Clive James, whose latest book CULTURAL AMNESIA comes after more than 40 years observing and commenting on arts, literature, culture, and politics.
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@alfiebengal4 жыл бұрын
RIP Clive, you'll be greatly missed.
@ciarancantwell64176 ай бұрын
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@MaisyMimi Жыл бұрын
He was so fascinating. At least he is still able to be heard.
@leevankleef4 жыл бұрын
Clive was spot on here. His book ‘Cultural Amnesia’ is a great book. Loved the chapter on Camu.
A great mind. I enjoyed his contribution to culture enormously.
@martm2165 жыл бұрын
I could listen to this guy all day. (Even though his mind works at a higher level than mine, and I have difficulty keeping up!)
@justininfrance2 жыл бұрын
Aung San Suu Kyi a heroine? Even the great Clive James got it badly wrong occasionally. Itself a valuable lesson. But Cultural Amnesia is a terrific book .
@lucysweeney83472 жыл бұрын
100% agree.
@christopherrobbins99854 жыл бұрын
RIP Clive James. Great spirit.
@Milton10793 жыл бұрын
A great writer, and a raconteur to boot.
@shanecagney74515 ай бұрын
One of the best interviews of James
@postielinley14 жыл бұрын
Great interview with Clivey. I just adore him to bits
@patrickcrowther91954 жыл бұрын
Clive James makes the world a better place by being in it.
@TheSlinkyinky12 жыл бұрын
Wonderful man, wise and genuine. Brilliant book. I wish him well in his current bad health.
@weewilliewagtail10 жыл бұрын
Clive James is a library on legs. I've read ten of his books and intend to read the rest as well. Thanks for posting this, Mr Rubio.
@poop70806 жыл бұрын
Amazing how recent this was and yet how strange the conversation about the internet sounds.
@didgerich4 жыл бұрын
He was right about many things - bless him RIP
@borderlord4 жыл бұрын
RIP Clive ...you educated me!
@petermortimer63034 жыл бұрын
I wonder did he regret dedicating his book to Aung San Suu Kyi?
@martinnevey72584 жыл бұрын
Another good man gone...who is replacing these minds...rip Clive, gone but through your work never forgotten
@KarlHeinzofWpg2 жыл бұрын
I love Clive James, but I think he'd doubt his own answer at 13:25-13:38 if he witnessed America's current and mostly voluntary slide towards authoritarianism. I miss his voice!
@philruane59102 жыл бұрын
No one speaks like this on UK tv anymore.
@barnabysmeaton90189 жыл бұрын
I've read 'Cultural Amnesia' and recommend it. It's unique both in its objective (start conversations about important topics and remind us of culturally important people who shouldn't be forgotten), and in its method (expository essays). If the book is somewhat hung up on the cataclysms of Nazism and Stalinism, it's understandable - partly because those cataclysms shouldn't be forgotten and also because of their relevance to today: the medieval barbarism that denounces western liberal democracies. Maniacs who peddle authoritarian utopist ideology based on revealed knowledge or sacred books? We've seen them before, in different times, and now as then they should never be appeased; they must be opposed.
@dm-gq5uj3 жыл бұрын
James loved individualism and having a variety of different viewpoints - he understood that that is what fosters creativity. And he understood that collectivism - on the Right and on the Left - seeks to crush individual viewpoints and make everything uniform and boring. So he was very hard on those artists and writers who promoted authoritarian ideologies - he detested both French collaborators with the Nazis and writers who kowtowed to Stalin. He saw that both Fascism and Communism both murdered the human spirit (to say nothing of actual human beings.)
@jayray723011 жыл бұрын
fantastic interview. thanks for the upload
@sherlockholmeslives.16058 жыл бұрын
Clive James ( b.1939 ) Australian Television Presenter, Critic, Poet, Broadcaster, Translator and Memoirist.
@neilforbes4164 жыл бұрын
Australian-born, but working in Britain.
@lindakraus18868 жыл бұрын
Read also, A Point of View, from his radio series. Did Studs Terkel ever interview him? No matter, I can 'hear' the discussion as it forms in my head.
@jeffreyadams6484 жыл бұрын
Great man.
@theloniousfan11 жыл бұрын
Great interview. Thanks for uploading. Look forward to reading the book.
@SimonJHeath2 жыл бұрын
A Great Man,
@jeremygaynor24103 жыл бұрын
Amazing mind
@blablabla6392311 жыл бұрын
Regarding Operation Cyclone in particular, the CIA spent nearly a billion dollars in funding counter-revolutionaries, known as the "Mujahideen" (meaning, "people who do jihad"). All this in the name of "regime change." We then subsequently turn around and invade Afghanistan's Taliban regime, citing they had connection to radicals like AQ. But the Taliban is there for a reason.. billions of reasons. The red scare pretext has militarized the Afghani people, thanks to our "intervention."
@martm2165 жыл бұрын
Fascinating guy.
@Toracube Жыл бұрын
A fantastic book. So much in it.
@HeavySmoker225 жыл бұрын
I wonder if he’s optimistic about the state of the world now? Somehow I doubt it.
@tunksdube11 жыл бұрын
Sorry Prof but I don't agree. Listen to what James says: "Watch out for the beautiful style, the beautiful style may be enshrining an untruth. You've simply got to learn to see through the way it's said to what's said." As I understand him, he's not referring to a hidden agenda (or even the role of simplicity in language) but insisting we cultivate a critical awareness towards the art of rhetoric and other forms of stylish, persuasive speaking and writing.
@BelloBudo0074 жыл бұрын
Bill interrupts Clive on a regular basis, but somehow it works.
@2park_3 жыл бұрын
He smiles a little bit like Robin Williamson, no?
@tonyofarrell27754 жыл бұрын
The lady from burma didn't turn out so good did she?
@petermortimer63034 жыл бұрын
How things change. I wonder whether he regretted dedicating the book to her. It brings to mind the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." That quote seems to be tailor made for what happened to Aung San Suu Kyi. Clive James admitted that he changed his view of Edmund Wilson 27:54 so maybe he would say the same about her.
@samsonwilkinson80908 жыл бұрын
In the book, he tells us he taught himself to read/write in this or that language at least ten times. Is this insecurity or what? Same as his endless posturing as a classics scholar in other tomes. I've no doubt he's erudite and intelligent but he doesn't half beat his own drum. I actually returned this book.
@Apuleius_7 жыл бұрын
Your loss.
@adelaidedupont9017 Жыл бұрын
Do you mean something like his Dante translations here?
@johnhead34312 ай бұрын
The Saddam Hussein comment hasn't aged well.
@SuperBagshotАй бұрын
Clive wasn't a conservative
@FordPrefect-tr8fb3 ай бұрын
Islam in Britain has been a nightmare and a total disaster.