Shoaib Ashraf Yep, he's a genius. A certified one, actually.
@brobsty18566 жыл бұрын
This comment however is well short of intelligent
@Baraa.K.Mohammad4 жыл бұрын
@@brobsty1856 Yours as well...
@cheatswiz583 жыл бұрын
I wish more people had the knowledge of this man; myself included. The world would be a much more empathetic place.
@knightsonofjack5 жыл бұрын
People understand that "the king stay the king" but some still believe in the myth of upward mobility in America, incredible.
@mongreen813 жыл бұрын
check the statistics.... economic mobility is absolutely alive and well in the united states
@knightsonofjack3 жыл бұрын
@@mongreen81 According to visual capitalist dot com, US is 27th.
@DustinTheGreat11234 жыл бұрын
I always registered as unaffiliated because I couldn’t get behind either side 100%. I’ve loved the Wire for years but never heard David speak. I feel like finally someone is eloquently putting out into words what I’ve thought for a long time.
@vickidimond9 жыл бұрын
Why can't we elect leaders who think lke this ???
@kartikm249 жыл бұрын
+vicki dimond people like this don't want to be leaders in our current system because there is no place for them
@DaveTex23759 жыл бұрын
We did. We have Obama. Took Medicare money to prop up Obamacare. Forced people to buy, & companies to sell, government approved insurance & punished people who can't afford it through the IRS & got Insurance companies to go along by seemingly mandating a bigger customer base. Unfortunately, many that lost their preferred plan thanks to mandated policy can't afford it & many are getting funneled into Medicaid, which is going broke. Nice going.
@d54868 жыл бұрын
Maybe bernie sanders?
@chadgrov7 жыл бұрын
vicki 90% are too stupid and inattentive to really listen
@McQuinTrix7 жыл бұрын
Because we want to build walls
@n.kelati5 жыл бұрын
man, David Simon is awesome. he creates, even in what he talks about, consistent truth. The Wire was by no means your conventional flashy show meant to catch your attention with every phrase, it was just The Truth. you're rewarded by the amount of attention you put into it. it was the most honest I've ever seen TV.
@wanderlustly3132 жыл бұрын
Well put! Honest is a great word choice. Cheers!
@AllThePiecesMatter_ Жыл бұрын
True dat!
@Mcnutty9242 ай бұрын
It's insane how much the show rewards for multiple rewatches. So many little things you miss.
@mark-A-antonius3 жыл бұрын
the socioeconomic analysis that the show uses to unearth the chaos of living in a post-industrial city like Baltimore is absolutely brilliant. you’ll learn more from this show about socioeconomic issues than you would from most intro-level economic and sociology classes.
@manuel_winde2 жыл бұрын
Agreed and what’s particularly great (and rare), is that it doesn’t dumb it down and over explain, or promote a specific agenda - you watch it and gradually see the bigger picture and how messed up it all is. You can’t watch the series and decide that “we just need to do X” or “it’s all Y’s fault”.
@kamrynm97802 жыл бұрын
I watched the Wire before and after studying sociology, and I have to say, it only adds in enjoying the show. Much in the same way that Richard Feynman enjoys the beauty of a flower
@spreadHEAD415898 жыл бұрын
David Simon, thank you for creating the greatest series ever. Thank you
@tipupa8 жыл бұрын
What an amazing show. Very hard to explain what this show was about because it was so multi-faceted with so many themes.
@CipherSerpico6 жыл бұрын
The Sopranos is the greatest TV series of all time. Don’t get me wrong, The Wire is a masterpiece. But i think The Sopranos and Breaking Bad are better, and I would even say that Lost is better.
@Gabriel-br4qe5 жыл бұрын
@@CipherSerpico damn you have a shitty taste
@y2123-l8c4 жыл бұрын
@@CipherSerpico LoSt better than The Wire!!!! Go back to bed boy I'm perfectly aware the time it's been
@totallybored55264 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know he created My Mother the Car
@sfdude39 жыл бұрын
This show was a documentary
@kassanova43845 жыл бұрын
lowkey
@y2123-l8c4 жыл бұрын
Bassicly
@Orf4 жыл бұрын
sfdude3 No. It was more true than a documentary.
@aidacailar11266 жыл бұрын
He looks like Herc.
@cesarrodriguez88934 жыл бұрын
I bet he's still looking for his camera.
@Ablo04194 жыл бұрын
@@cesarrodriguez8893 😂
@liquid69014 жыл бұрын
You know what big hands mean right?
@maxfieldnuckels90753 жыл бұрын
He looks like Herc and Levy got warped together
@WonderTracks3 жыл бұрын
I think his mannerisms and eyes resemble those of the "imaginative" reporter in season 5, Scott Templeton. I hope not - the reporter making up stories didn't get portrayed in the most positive light. Then again, even if the character was supposed to resemble David's own journalistic history, then I can just say that forgiveness is important. All professions have a tendency to corrupt, and even more so when the "cheating" is lucrative and without any apparent drawback.
@mattk16314 жыл бұрын
This is making a whole lot of sense in 2020
@kelvinwallace55654 жыл бұрын
As I'm watching this video that is my very thought.
@bitchoflivingblah4 жыл бұрын
@@kelvinwallace5565 Same here, very pertinent point right at the start - 'when the first black kid went to a white school, the loss of the tax base'. Explains everything about modern white American Angst.
@MsAngie-he5uv3 жыл бұрын
And definitely in 2021!
@Goffe9093 жыл бұрын
And yet, in Chicago more children have died this year from guns than covid in the entire country.
@ss_avsmt Жыл бұрын
Will make sense in 3020 also. The theme is too low level(I mean basic, philosophically speaking, like a programming language). It touches accurately, the aspects which every person and every city faces. Even if we live in interplanetary civilizations, these problems will still persist.
@brianmorrison90664 жыл бұрын
With the body of Herc and the brain of Prezbo, I intruduce David Simmmon.
@deeseant3 жыл бұрын
No strong female characters in the police department and drug corners? Kima and Snoop?!? Possibly the two toughest most badass characters in both areas (after omar of course)
@TarjeiElias3 жыл бұрын
'Strong character' doesn't mean tough or physically strong. It means that a character is fleshed out, layered, three dimensional, etc.
@NoKapprio3 жыл бұрын
@@TarjeiElias Kima is pretty fleshed out
@alanmckinstry92763 жыл бұрын
@@TarjeiElias not sure I could argue that Snoop is fleshed out, but there are certainly hints to a deeper side to her character.
@TarjeiElias3 жыл бұрын
I just pointed out the definition.
@rubberchix3 жыл бұрын
@@NoKapprio I didnt think so tbh. Her home life was not compelling
@iandhr15 жыл бұрын
David Simon is amazing. Though I would say Kima was a strong female character.
@123vid3213 жыл бұрын
Elena McNulty
@patrickcannon6093 жыл бұрын
Snoop
@MinecraftRick3 жыл бұрын
Beadie and Rhonda
@jakebee72053 жыл бұрын
Delonda
@opaljk48353 жыл бұрын
I think it was just meant more generally
@JoeVirella2 жыл бұрын
This guy deserved so many Emmys it’s ridiculous.
@jaydesigns12363 жыл бұрын
The wire is probably the best piece of art ever put on the screen.
@PrankyTrolls9 жыл бұрын
Actors get all the fame when the writers made it happen.
@FuzzyDlop9 жыл бұрын
The Wire's actors had to wait 6 years to get SOME kind of light(except for Idris Elba and MBJordan). And even know they're still not getting all the fame(Dominic West was robbed by Kevin Spacey for The Affair at the golden globes). And by the way, David Simon is the best TV author in TV history, the best writer in the history of filmmaking and he's developing another mini-series. He's been speaking the truth at various festivals for two or three years. He held a lecture at Harvard where, along with a few cast members from The Wire, he educated the Harvard's kids. He's an artist and a genius, fame is not a part of what he is. He got A LOT of respect, though. Sadly his country will never listen to him.
@StilezC9 жыл бұрын
Fuzzy Dunlop Kevin Spacey did not rob Dominic West of an award. He's a good actor, but you are being ridiculous.
@ssj4goku18825theepic5 жыл бұрын
Fuzzy Dunlop method man was the only person who was even remotely well known during the entire show
@theystoleitfromus4 жыл бұрын
@@ssj4goku18825theepic Steve Earle wants a word with you.
@patrickmanway2903 жыл бұрын
EXACTLY!! That's why I like David Chase better then James Gandolfini. Gandolfini would'nt be famous if it wasn't for Chase. Chase is the brains behind the Sopranos!
@heynowls30584 жыл бұрын
The wire could be remade today. Nothing has changed. Justice
@DreadfulControversy9 жыл бұрын
Why doesn't this have more views?
@TheMuwatalli9 жыл бұрын
DreadfulControversy society is fucked up, thats what the wire shows in a way... dude you didnt understand shit of the true aim of creating that masterpiece.
@Euclides2879 жыл бұрын
DreadfulControversy Everyone's busy watching the Kardashians that's why..
@raoulhery9 жыл бұрын
DreadfulControversy Because people dont know how to follow the money
@sethyeazel38609 жыл бұрын
+DreadfulControversy As Kendrick would say, "Critics want to mention that they miss when hip hop was rappin’ Motherfucker, if you did, then Killer Mike'd be platinum."
@kaldayyeh84659 жыл бұрын
+DreadfulControversy Everyone keeping up with the Kardashians -_-
@muvs32pap4 жыл бұрын
As a white Gen Xer raised in Baltimore's last white working class neighborhood (Old School Hampden), The Wire filled in quite a few gaps in my knowledge of my city from sources outside my experience. I had realized early in life, much earlier than many of my peers that The Ghetto was not black in nature and not built in a day ,a week, a year or a single generation...and not without direction from those outside.
@josephmcdonald99333 жыл бұрын
Salute for you to have been able to see that.
@Goffe9093 жыл бұрын
Its odd that Baltimore is such a small city compared to most major cities. And yet, still suffers from such awful conditions. I can never understand why people choose to stay.
@FALLENSK8ER19952 жыл бұрын
@@Goffe909 they can’t afford to leave, there ain’t many places in MD you can move to since so many places here have such a high cost of living
@Goffe9092 жыл бұрын
@@FALLENSK8ER1995 That is true Maryland is expensive, I live in California and it's even more ridiculous out here.
@nersesarslanian30268 жыл бұрын
I wish this guy taught in college.
@vedula-uq1wj7 жыл бұрын
so that the world would have less Top TV shows?
@z4r4thus7 жыл бұрын
I wish this guy ran for public office.
@BenGunnx7 жыл бұрын
He would wither and die.
@StopMoColorado6 жыл бұрын
He reaches way more people, and with much greater effectiveness, this way than if he were sequestered behind the ideological and financial paywall of some educational establishment. Hearts have to be changed before the minds will follow, he's sewn some seeds with great potential for the future by sneaking his message past an array of political and ideological mental watchdogs.
@w12ath0402115 жыл бұрын
Dont worry there's plenty of liberal socialists teaching there already
@BigShaneGillis7 жыл бұрын
It's a shame the simple, common man can't comprehend these ideologies and a man with this caliber of intellect won't win the support and attention of our nation simply due to fear of that which these men don't understand. Knowledge is frightening to those not willing to learn
@user-wy1et9dk9w4 жыл бұрын
The heck you talking about Ben you aren't american
@noahdavis27124 жыл бұрын
Go back to Australia, mayt
@kelvinwallace55654 жыл бұрын
@@JoseDiaz-ms4my you noticed that as well. Neil de Grasse Tyson and David Simon, the free flowing exchange of ideas emanating from the conversation would make for an excellent podcast or TED TALK.
@MJ-ey4im3 жыл бұрын
Quite an elitist viewpoint to be honest
@jlongobardy16123 жыл бұрын
Poor Simon. On account of The Wire and some of its characters, each a worthy achievement its own right, I've an enduring affection for the dramatist and wish him well. But I don't envy the personal intellectual reckoning ineluctable in his future--be it in a few years or a few decades from this speech. For, after he's lived a little more, read a little more--and after life has forced upon him (as it does all of us) a little more humility--he'll have to look back at himself and the ethos he espoused, especially in terms of ideas and ideologies, as rendered in discussions like this one, and I pity the intense cringing he'll suffer when he does. The same as print, video imparts a cruel dual power: it at once magnifies our sophomoric errors and crushes our ego.
@PurushaDesa6 жыл бұрын
He's right about the destruction of the idea of "the collective." Being responsible for other people has been limited to the notion of "family values" - which is just a way of not caring for anyone else's family or those without the luxury of a support system of their own.
@flipierfatalbina47575 жыл бұрын
Yep. People don't want to realize that universal healthcare, parental leave, and education are family values- not hating gay and trans people.
@ken_yap3 жыл бұрын
That's conservative values for ya. Republicans don't care about anyone else except themselves. They would burn the entire world down if it means saving themselves, damn everyone else.
@rotergeist95092 жыл бұрын
@@ken_yap have you ever tried to save a drug addict? Its a waste of time and eventually parasitic systems kill the host. The majority of people are a net negative and thats a fact
@ibleebinU2 жыл бұрын
@@ken_yap As a conservative, that is simply not true. You obviously know nothing of conservative values.
@MB2.02 жыл бұрын
@@flipierfatalbina4757 keep strawmanning any political group you disagree with, that'll definitely change some minds
@troupsterT3 жыл бұрын
"Fear and money are the currencies of conservative American thought". He's exactly right.
@Goffe9093 жыл бұрын
And yet, Joe Biden authored the 94 crime bill huh.
@troupsterT3 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, I forgot that all the Republicans opposed that bill. It's all the Democrats' fault. Thanks for the insight.
@Goffe9093 жыл бұрын
@@troupsterT If Biden and Harris never locked you up: "then you ain't black!!" 🤣🤣
@sonny71943 жыл бұрын
Did you guys not just listen to this video??? WTF the internet is so detrimental in the way people argue
@troupsterT3 жыл бұрын
@@Goffe909 What??? Go look at the votes for that bill. Ignorance breeds silly comments like the one you just made.
@silvercomic9 жыл бұрын
There a couple of episodes of Show Me A Hero aired now, and it is excellent. It really shows Simons' commitment to not shy away from complicated problems and refusing to go for simple answers.
@oscarmike11319 жыл бұрын
agree. hard to believe a miniseries about housing projects could be one of the year's best and yet it is. amazing storyteller
@silvercomic9 жыл бұрын
+Mike K Exactly. It sounds deeply boring and I would not have guessed I'd like it. But its great.
@bfr74vz809 жыл бұрын
Mr Simon really raised the bar with the Wire, I don't know if another show will ever top it. The Sopranos is a close second
@nishantdsouza5 жыл бұрын
Bfr74vz GOT hahaha
@theyeking70235 жыл бұрын
@@nishantdsouza gay
@nishantdsouza5 жыл бұрын
@@theyeking7023 being sarcastic da
@divinejacobmathew15035 жыл бұрын
I have it other way around but I can see the argument for vice versa .
@LethalWalou4 жыл бұрын
@Sargoy Of Mossad Sopranos is correctly rated, and don't @ me back
@goodluckjoe42414 жыл бұрын
That men heroin and women crack line though that’s something powerful fr definitely got to look into it
@siphillis3 жыл бұрын
Name another showrunner with this much to say. "The Wire" is a masterpiece, and its creator is a genius.
@Goffe9093 жыл бұрын
Season 5 was pretty horrid and a struggle to make it through.
@Daudlegur2 жыл бұрын
@@Goffe909 I really liked season 5
@Goffe9092 жыл бұрын
@@Daudlegur It had a few choice moments in there.
@allaboutthemurzic2 жыл бұрын
Season 1 was slow at first, hard to get into Season 5 was slow too
@Goffe9092 жыл бұрын
@@allaboutthemurzic Do you feel because of the storytelling, or just in general?
@ricardo9505354 жыл бұрын
This guy should be allowed to speak annually on the US Congressional floors.
@benjaminmaracek5354 жыл бұрын
It’s 2020 in the middle of a global pandemic with an impending economic depression on the horizon. David Simon in 2015 speaking on collective responsibility vs the American impulse towards libertarianism: we are headed for the “brick” scenario mentioned at the end of this video.
@fiattenebris4 жыл бұрын
Just finished watching the five seasons in the wake of BLM and now I'm binging on The Wire analyses and videos like this.
@aisl61904 жыл бұрын
It's just amazing how prescient he is.... and The Wire is still the best ever... Shakespearian..
@markrapp13433 жыл бұрын
Every aspect of The Wire, the drug trade, the neighborhoods, the politicians, the police…all of it could have been taken from Rochester New York or any other mid sized urban center in this country.
@dd.49104 жыл бұрын
5:17 "Heroin took the black men in the 70s and cocaine came and got the black women in the 80s and 90s." The frank way he says this.....wow, amazing speaker.
@mitchrc34 жыл бұрын
Drugs are a victimless crime.
@muneerahbonner16184 жыл бұрын
D D. E
@kathleenhandron30923 жыл бұрын
He is right. Live in Oakland.
@DontShootTheMessenger4thTier2 жыл бұрын
What about these last two decades?
@user-vl5qg5rf4n2 жыл бұрын
@@mitchrc3 The only victim is the user, which is why it's even more ridiculous that they are the ones persecuted.
@SonicLeute3 жыл бұрын
Thats actually the beauty of the Wire. Its themes are universal and timeless.
@JackBob.2 жыл бұрын
You'd think that after more than a decade, the show would become less relevant but its actually more relevant than ever before.
@nodrama4907 жыл бұрын
What a LEGEND! The WIRE is a masterpiece so well written
@erikengheim11069 жыл бұрын
Inteligent talk. David Simon impress me. If I was to try to rehash my own view which I think match somewhat with his, it is that dogma poisons everything. Dogma could be religion, communism, nazis, free market extremists or whatever. Whenever somebody decides one idea overrides everything and is always right no matter the cirumstance or condition then things will eventually go very wrong. And that goes for all parts of life, not just politics but also professional life. People have these simple commandments how how things should be done regardless of specific problem being solved.
@WVURxMan9 жыл бұрын
Yup. That's why if someone asks my political affiliation, I tell them I'm an anti-ideologist.
@erikengheim11069 жыл бұрын
WVURxMan That is a good one ;-) I do sort of feel like saying I have some values though, like there are some things to strive towards: like freedom of speech, democracy etc. I do think securing people's material well being is important to happiness, but that doesn't mean I think we should be dogmatic about the means to achieve that. E.g. right now a marked economy based approach seems to work best to achieve that. But in principle I should be able so accept a planned economic approach if that proved better at securing material well being, protect the environment etc better. Trouble starts when people make the tools like marked economy into a goal in itself. Like you measure success by the degree an economy is a market economy etc, instead of measuring the outcomes.
@johnalfano64839 жыл бұрын
WVURxMan wvur xman you said a mouthful. oh ya I am an ani-ideologist
@erikengheim11069 жыл бұрын
Charles Ferdinand I was until you totally outshone him with your sharp intellect as demonstrated by the deep insights found in your marvelously articulated comment above.
@alexisk16597 жыл бұрын
People always default to black and white thinking when under stress. It's a universal human failing.
@rjn80018 жыл бұрын
90% of the statements below are exactly what Simon is speaking against. To subscribe generally to one ideology when it comes to vastly different issues is pure idiocy and the true reason problems have yet to be solved while we as a country have been arguing about the same things for 50 years. Ex. (And this will take flack, ready for it) Capitalism can be argued to be the natural state of human affairs and therefore the fairest system, Socialism can be argued to be the ideal - where everyone gets what they need and society is healthier as a whole. Neither system has been worked to perfection. Unchecked capitalism leads to massive inequality while most socialist states fall behind in economic growth and tend to collapse. Where does a reading of history lead us? Logic would tell us to new synthesized ideas - yet it hasn't. And society still does not progress - the individual does not progress. Unfortunately, this in itself falls on individuals. It is one's own responsibility to learn different viewpoints - from the classic to the new age - and come up with new solutions. Education should be geared toward independent critical thinking and not leading young people toward a structured value system (at least relative to political thinking). People like David Simon should make more work and have lectures like these aired prime time on NBC. It should be recommended viewing on everyone's Google+ account, yet it sits at the back of youtube for over a year with 43,000 measly views. It's gross.
@jareddesilva69575 жыл бұрын
Willem DaFuckedUp did u read his full comment I'm pretty sure he made your point aware
@50kal444 жыл бұрын
R JN socialism is no ideal. READ HISTORY - Russia and China killed more people than Germany during wwII
@iank39244 жыл бұрын
Willem and Kalvin, did you read the above post? Your posts show a complete lack of reading comprehension. You literally have no idea what his argument was. Reread it and then what you wrote.
@dribblesg24 жыл бұрын
@@iank3924 lol The tragedy of the human predicament captured in 3 youtube comments.
@MrFirefox3 жыл бұрын
because as both sides can tell you ''it wasn't **pure** socialism/capitalism''
@usun_current57864 жыл бұрын
It's the best TV series ever created, like an epic classic literature snapshoting the modern city will be studied in colleges in future centuries. However, it is very scary and I still not sure what can we do with a dying city which is spiraling down due to its institutions negative feedback loop. Such things usually ends with civilization/cultural collapse or some very bloody revolution and civil wars best case.
@garethbull53039 жыл бұрын
What was that he said about prison numbers? America having more prisoners than China and a way smaller population. Prisoners being the new dependable currency for America and that's due to the burgeoning middle class. Either way sounds like he knows what he's talking about. I would love to see an in depth documentary explaining lobbying and how capitalism will always pay to keep making its money. Just to see it broken down for my tiny brain to understand, and also that of the American People! In the UK we saw that 120,000 broken families living in the poverty line in 2010 were costing £9bn to support annually. Our government set up a troubled families unit in 2011 with under half a billion to fund the next three years, trying to fix these families. Of families that received interventions (f**k off Jeremy Kyle!), 90% of them were turned around. £75K annually is an average cost one broken family has on the system. Nice to know we are not asking for more prisons for these people. That's the point I'm making. But this is our government doing this. How can this be done in America when they are wanting people in prisons!?
@wanderlustly3132 жыл бұрын
A white man who really GETS IT. Such a refreshing sight. The Wire's brilliance is in no way coincidental. Kudos David Simon!
@Onigirli8 жыл бұрын
Even when he's spoonfeeding we'll find ways to turn our heads and say "nnNOO!
@MrMReed78 жыл бұрын
well said! this man is a genius! He speaks with real insight and knowledge. Yet we have people talking negatively about a good suggestions on how to improve our country.
@Onigirli5 жыл бұрын
@@MrMReed7 I know it's a real pessimistic thing to say but I can't help but feel the following statement: We get the world we deserve. We have detailed solutions to MANY crippling problems that even the most desperate people are reluctant to apply. Nobody can feign ignorance anymore
@MrMReed75 жыл бұрын
Edriss Scofield facts! Well said!
@FBarbarian2 жыл бұрын
Wait, isn't there a character that is a strong female... Snoop? She would dump bodies like it's the trash for the week. If that's not strength and cold-bloodedness I don't know what is. She's way tougher than many male characters, all from the drug, police and politics sides of things.
@detective___mcnulty5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for The Wire.
@idatekatemoss3 жыл бұрын
I’m just asking why doesn’t David Simon have more opinions? Being in the newsroom with this guy would have been like SAS training
@Wveth7 жыл бұрын
I uploaded a cool scene from a TV show last year and it got more views since then than this video has. That's sad as hell.
@Demention947 жыл бұрын
Completely genuine. Smart dude. Looking forward to watching this show.
@soloistdeve3 жыл бұрын
Ideology is one of our primal codes. Belonging in a pack increases your chance of survival which is nonsensical in today's world. But hey, even the environment of humans changed drastically, the organism didn't evolve that much. There are people out there still living as real packs in nature. Cities may be portraying a part of the human condition but not all of it. Collective responsibility never happened, and never will at this rate.
@sambringit78594 жыл бұрын
The title of this video should be: Davis Simons: Why he created the greatest TV series ever....
@XimenaZhao415 Жыл бұрын
"SF Invictus" is "The Wire" meets "Neuromancer," set in neo-San Francisco (Yelamu).
@tabishghani93 жыл бұрын
Would love to see David Simon and David Chase talking about their art
@gabrielcollipal2083 жыл бұрын
Would be beautiful
@shastealyomeal Жыл бұрын
Chase is prickly and Simon rants it wouldn't be cinematic
@dtabb392684 жыл бұрын
School desegregation ended on September 7, 1954. I was there and went to a white school in the 7th grade.
@thegeth42939 жыл бұрын
the best way to run things is a balance of free markets (capitalism) and government intervention (socialism). a flexible system. in america we try that mix of both, and manage to get the bad parts of both of them together.
@MrAllesEd5 жыл бұрын
A very smart awnser sir, my compliments. That's how we do it in the Neatherlands
@andreassveen86894 жыл бұрын
"nah man, its strictly business" Stringer Bell
@oscarhaydenperditionbound11958 жыл бұрын
Very intelligent man. Strange that he always seems to be wearing the same shirt though. 😕
@SigurTibbs8 жыл бұрын
+Oscar Hayden (Perdition Bound) He's like the Steve Jobs of TV shows.
@SpicyAl30006 жыл бұрын
All that content and you comment on his shirt? ffs
@tisha21596 жыл бұрын
Fuq outta here and so what? I've never seen him in the same shirt. Judgmental idiot!
@csd82046 жыл бұрын
? I never pay that much attention to what another man is wearing.
@alijama12493 жыл бұрын
Cos his name is David Simon
@josephzimba6816 жыл бұрын
David Simon should make a show about the downfall of HOLLYWOOD and the reasons why movies like indies aren't doing well in the box office worldwide.
@BlackNella4 жыл бұрын
its wild and very sad how all the issues he raised and various reforms needed are even more pronounced and urgent now. Guess it was the brick. He called it.
@zachsimon55876 жыл бұрын
The game is the game.
@TT-dv9er3 жыл бұрын
Its such a sadistic nation.
@emmanuela75283 жыл бұрын
This talk is one of the best summaries of modern society you will find anywhere.
@StephenSchaal Жыл бұрын
I always thought the most important aspect to the show was how the responsibility starts at the top, and that the problems trickle down from there despite how well intentioned the rest of the people are.
@uncletimo6059 Жыл бұрын
no, you missed the point totally. the point is that this is SYSTEMIC. best shown with the young mayor, who REALLY wanted to change everything for the better, and the system FORCED him to become jaded, corrupt, and duplicitous. if he wasn't elected, NOTHING would change, the other mayor would act the same.
@shanequastunningbrave5376 Жыл бұрын
@@uncletimo6059 No he made those choices, he got in by lying and his true nature came out, he wanted more power and Baltimore was just a stepping stone for that.
@uncletimo6059 Жыл бұрын
@@shanequastunningbrave5376 hard disagree. I think that yes, he wanted more power - all politicians are narcissists and psychopaths that way - but he DID want to improve Bmore.
@shanequastunningbrave5376 Жыл бұрын
@@uncletimo6059No he chose to look after himself, the fact people are still fooled by politicians is mind blowing
@uncletimo6059 Жыл бұрын
@@shanequastunningbrave5376 what was his incentive to NOT look after himself and continue in Bmore? Deal with the super corrupt politicians and police and other bigwigs? They would have destroyed him. He did what he could, being what he is - a slimy, smarmy, self centered narcissist politician IN THAT EVIL SYSTEM.
@jeronimo4863 жыл бұрын
There is not a best movie ever. There is not a best novel ever. There is not a best video game ever. The Wire is the best TV show ever, period.
@stubbthehedgehog8845 Жыл бұрын
Red dead 2 is probably the best videogame ever.
@royalescorpio9 жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of The Wire and amazingly enough the series still sparks such a dialogue. Is there ever any way that we can get a sixth season or a movie?!?
@garethbull53039 жыл бұрын
Have you seen the Omar super cut? You've seen it already but still. It's the closest thing you get to a film. Or watch Homicide. One of the cops in that show is playing the same character who's the journalist/editor dude (bloke with the hat).
@royalescorpio9 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I've got to get the Homicide DVD set. I read the book about 2 months ago and really enjoyed it.
@GinosPizzeria1357 жыл бұрын
If you haven't read the immortal life of Henrietta lacks yet why not give it a chance? Based in Baltimore and the medical institution. Carried the same theme of people making unethical policies for profit. Couldn't help but think another season of the wire could have been set in the medical institution.
@andersmartinson17504 жыл бұрын
Jazzi Hill, if you haven’t seen The Corner, it’s worth a look. Simon did it before The Wire.
@justindreyer3 жыл бұрын
The house I live in
@lloydcrouse63517 жыл бұрын
We are Rome.
@thegreenman48987 жыл бұрын
succinct and totally correct, it will end as rome did as well.
@toddadams50105 жыл бұрын
Donald Trump's fiddle is the news media
@usun_current57864 жыл бұрын
mini-Rome. Real Rome lasted thousands of years.
@craig53224 жыл бұрын
My IQ just went up 10 points
@walkermorgan17102 жыл бұрын
I love the wire but personally think he speaks better through his characters
@toddadams50105 жыл бұрын
Why can't American politicians think like this guy?
@Orf4 жыл бұрын
27:30
@markvonschober68725 жыл бұрын
Genius.... just total genius It’s like a social experiment caught on film.
@user-od3rl5mc2 жыл бұрын
Would love to see him do a show or movie about when an entire society descends into Mass psychosis.
@themanwnoname34542 жыл бұрын
2022(G) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
@miscellanyman2633 жыл бұрын
Still can't believe Dominic West is British: dat be kray-kray.
@samevans43357 жыл бұрын
I completely agree with pretty much everything he says. We focus too much on our own freedom and liberty, and not worrying about each other. Plus, we seem to only have certain response to certain issues, which, as he says, doesn't work every time. Clever bloke!
@MrDavidFitzgerald3 жыл бұрын
Seems to me that the root of the problem in America is lobbying. Of course in the UK we have some degree of lobbying, but nothing like America. For example, the idea that a sugar tax might get past the soft drinks lobby in America is unthinkable.
@sillygoose97913 жыл бұрын
You gotta license to say that Limey?
@jeffreycavanaugh16939 жыл бұрын
Simon has to feel like Cassandra. I know I do.
@UkrainianPaulie4 жыл бұрын
The Wire is bar none the best TV show ever.
@JustinThomas-qt9hv18 күн бұрын
Conveniently leaves out the fact that urban decay in mid to large cities such as Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia is a direct result of 50 plus years of Democratic stranglehold.
@photonotavailable79364 жыл бұрын
This should be seen on FOX News.
@Nullllus6 жыл бұрын
24:30 Do I hear Slavoj Zizek?
@mygodyousuckatthat8 жыл бұрын
The guy is incredible.
@TheNapoleonComplex13 жыл бұрын
It's me from the future here to tell you that we have successfully achieved a selfish 2nd rate society
@chlm53704 жыл бұрын
Herc created the wire?
@tinashembala3 жыл бұрын
I dont doubt his heart but it does not work. I wish it did but it does not. I'm pretty sure america is about to find out and it's a damn shame
@tightlikethat083 жыл бұрын
A great deal of the issues in the U.S. all go back to taxes. It’s not necessarily about sharing per se…but about the highest earners paying their FAIR share of taxes. Close the tax loop holes and let’s start rebuilding.
@bradtaulbee59283 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately that’s a very simple resolution to a very complicated problem. While it is a fair point to expect tax to be paid equally it doesn’t have any bearing on if (it won’t) that tax money will be spent responsibly or productively.
@counterstrike11106 жыл бұрын
still the best show ever made
@mac11daddy6 Жыл бұрын
Everything this guy is saying is relevant to this day. The media would never let this guy speak on CNN or Fox News
@adnanasghar10873 ай бұрын
Everyone loves different aspects of the wire but for me it's how complex it is. It's mind blowing how they linked hundreds of characters from different departments and fields play into same storyline.
@jeppefrolund17185 жыл бұрын
Simon: "If I sound cynical..." Narrator: "David Simon was in fact not cynical. Not 2 years after this speech, Trump became President in the US and brought into reality every scary thing Simon mentioned, in exactly the way he said it was going to happen in his worst case scenario."
@50kal444 жыл бұрын
Jeppe Frolund Derp... Simon wrote a whole show about how broken and dysfunctional our society is and Trump walked in and hit EVERY NOTE saying we are sick and tired of everything Simon showed in the show.
@MrFirefox3 жыл бұрын
I believe Trump wanted America to be strong again, whilst all his opponents look to destabilise it, weaken society, weaken men, make us feel dependent on government
@Orf7 жыл бұрын
It's Hank from Breaking Bad!
@4exgold6 жыл бұрын
Matt Orfalea or Herc's smarter brother
@snyperheadshoot Жыл бұрын
Great talk, "the wire" is truly a special show and it would be nice if more people took your words to heart, but sadly, more often than not, as the saying goes, "money to be made, morals to be discarded".
@kedarolumide734 жыл бұрын
David Simon for President!!!! He gets it
@CyrusPieris8 жыл бұрын
David Simon speaks convincingly and is pragmatic. He reflects on a future that is happening everywhere where we forget those around us. I am not surprised that the middle class is being hollowed out and people who are not aggressive and part of the sharing economy are loosing out. If anything we need real mutuals who are there to benefit everyone who is willing to be responsible and commit to limiting their consumption. I am inspired again.. I forgot that this is who I am. thank you.
@illiteratethug33052 жыл бұрын
Listen to the man Jimmy...
@cesarrodriguez88934 жыл бұрын
where's the camera Herc?
@FBarbarian2 жыл бұрын
If David Simon is not geting the voice he wants to tell a story he wants I will go get rich and give him the money to do it. srsly
@shanequastunningbrave5376 Жыл бұрын
He's had multiple shows on TV and is extremely wealthy, he's doing fine!
@beo749 жыл бұрын
why hasn't this video 200k+ views? it's a sad state of affairs...a shining city on a hill indeed...
@beavis81674 жыл бұрын
HBO series The Wire an OZ are the best.
@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO.4 жыл бұрын
💯facts
@theoriginalsamueljohnson8 жыл бұрын
This should have way more views.
@GuardianFoodgdn9 жыл бұрын
David Simon's excellent talk at the Observer Ideas festival 2014. Well worth a watch...
@Naratifan3 жыл бұрын
The Wire best TV series in history !!!
@realkabecio2 жыл бұрын
WISE MAN. Thank you for your work.
@shanhu78924 жыл бұрын
What a guy! I wish I could meet him at a bar and hear some wise talk from him!