Saul Williams On Trump & The Politics Of Fear

[@JazzyJonas]

God, I love Saul Williams. I don't have the energy to explain why he's such an honest genius. I hope you all just get it.

[@QueenOfTheDamned]

Yes! yes! yes!

[@Jarrjoseify]

I sooo get it!

[@Pumbear]

I don't. It's been 9 months though, surely you have the energy by now?

[@theseventhworld2990]

+Sander - Saul Williams is a poet who will be remembered long after he's dead, in the same way Allen Ginsberg is. He's one of those legends that still happens to be alive.

[@ryancross8136]

Fo sho... you just get it or you don’t... and it’s a feel...

[@camilocarranza216]

Kicking truth to the blinded masses.

[@heidi6244]

Mad love for Saul Williams......he gets it. I wish more of my friends did.

[@professorswaggamuffin7572]

I know right? I try to turn ppl on to this guy for years but ppl don't spend the time appreciate his genius. They just get overwhelmed or something. Sucks.

[@aveinfinite]

Legendary Cat. Respect those words. Peace

[@1BRWNSKN]

"It's just a reflection of our values; we get the leader we deserve"...Think on that.

[@fileunderunknown6924]

Saul - the speaker of truth.

[@dianepalm1737]

Love you brother, and your raw honesty about ways in which we are being gamed.

[@Naeema311]

Beautiful, free-thinker.

[@GrootsieTheDog]

"We get the leaders we deserve" - This is exactly how I felt the night Trump won the election. I was neither shocked, surprised or horrified. I see Trump every day, in the soda we drink, the commercials we numb ourselves to, the name brands we consume.

[@Chamz1213]

He speaks Truth to power !! Huge Fan!!

[@simpleecommonline8617]

What this man's poetry ...has done for my life...words can't explain. Somehow his can though!

[@mistersm]

Omg thank you! This is what I have been trying to tell everyone, but I might not be as eloquent

[@InvisibleFreak23]

i´ve got a list of demands, to hear Saul Williams speak, is one of them =)

[@moosefacekilla1]

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

[@HiGlowie]

Saul needs a larger podium. Man is underrated on several levels.

[@ryanmad8179]

My favorite poet since I was 17 .....lyricist mount vol 1 made me love u ...I'm a poet ur one of my inspirations

[@dawgboybinley6128]

I like the point at 3:25 - "that is to be expected with time because people forget, people become complacent, people become comfortable, uhm..people become fearful..." To me this is very insightful because it's not just an American thing, or a today (this generation) thing... there's an acknowledgement that this is kind of a human thing which we need to actively fight against, the fear of the unknown - which grows when you are comfortable and don't want anything to threaten it - so you can actually do harm to the world trying to protect what you have.

[@pollyannasteiner]

LOVE YOU SAUL x Everything you speak is truth. x

[@LewugaBenson]

intelligent!! I would love to sit with this guy and pick his brain some more!!

[@ameejohnson4923]

I hate the term "brain picking"....dont pick at others brains, work on expanding your own.

[@mgking7551]

what an incredible poet

[@thachiefrocka]

Oh man I'm eating cheetos as I watch this. haha

[@nbahardcore]

thachiefrocka that's fucking hilarious. Thanks for sharing. I could see that happening to me!

[@jameswyatt6076]

What was your shit like tho

[@perla-michellehughes4594]

James Wyatt 😐😂

[@nomadfallout]

always was entertaining and enlightening. i would like to see a show saul give his thoughts on random things complex to simple mundane things, that would be awesome. pls adjust your camera next time, he was cropped.

[@Tinted_Ego_Teedo]

Amazing Doc! First heard him say back on Kanye. I wish more artists had an ear for what our people need

[@mysteriousdaloner864]

Here here!

[@jctothel]

Saul speak the TRUTH

[@alexwebster69]

thank you Saul. i agree.

[@ManSteaming]

that bit on mystery was great

[@MimiB1974]

Only 11k views... Let this have been a twerk video, smh.

[@4gloat]

11,000% more than it would have been just a couple years ago

[@PkSage89]

I'm curious what he would've said in the cut out parts, but ya incredible talk. Forgot of him years ago.

[@rubinturner8233]

Saul is untouchable!

[@jatsi96]

I agree with everything this man says. Open your minds, people.

[@jovandespeines8611]

À lot of Real shit spoken in this video.

[@noraqubaia3942]

Omg this is so good!!! I've been saying this to the bf the other day! If we are this deplorable don't be surprised if people start to admire that

[@spoonwillsakaniggleetheus2096]

he's right method man had Trump on his judgement day album it was a skit

[@cornellwaters9089]

Upon each moment we forget how to, and think remember when.

[@jessegrimes5767]

I've never commented till now...but yeah we get the leaders we deserve!

[@shakakente9410]

This man is the real

[@nellsonogmore5938]

Still relevant now!

[@lordhermskillz86a2thaz5]

Word!

[@sahraomar5141]

Respect

[@sahraomar5141]

Saul is funny.lol

[@brandonbreaker7390]

good man here ...

[@nbahardcore]

From the title I knew he was going to murder this topic. Such a genius.

[@ppaulinka]

Love this Guy!!!

[@ANUN9NUPOO]

Saul Williams is the man day 1 (Eargasms Vol. 1).....its sad that those who really got something to say are overlooked by idiocy and the dumbing down syndrome.....Saul, I love you bro! ( In the voice of Mr. West) ...

[@mrkaiman1995]

This is Joey bad ass in super saiyan 2

[@justicestyles]

nah at least SS3

[@rosierdorcin870]

you should post the questions so we can see what questions he's answering

[@murderymofo2102]

People get too hung up on what they are told through media vs what they witness with their own eyes. Too many movements. Too many labels. Too many stereotypes. Be good to your fellow man. Don't consume more than you can give back. Live within your means. Respect others who live within theirs.

[@mlcool6009]

some people have the right thoughts and analyses of Politics Living and World Cooperation Claws-He's got it!

[@marcusanderson9042]

How have Saul Williams and Jon Stewart not met? They seem very much alike.

[@Opinions567]

Truth

[@leespencerzombie]

Slippery Slope, yup people are easily afraid.

[@marinettedupanchain0939]

Saul I love how you put this. the problem is that FEAR of him oveRrides intelligence & his own party left him to be the bad guy. Everyone needs one of those & for her paid corrupted Win as it was with Obama. We have women like me. I'm married by paper and I don't use my Ring as a chain to love my husband. He knows my heart at the start of the finish line is to captivate men that have been left behind by the excuses of women that engineered a lie that they're bad. Fathers, lovers, soldiers, sons, cops, and brothers. They are incomplete just like America. I'm the beginning of the revolution created by unjustified devotional acceptance of self. I'm the discovery channel's way out. I'm the glow in the darkness on your shoulders when nobody is there to hold. I'm the mother reaching out for the Children in the ground of Chiraq. I'm upset with the mindset of the conditions that children can't play in the playground instead the the playground is replaced by cemeteries. sorry I had to get this out

[@catross3713]

Preach

[@mikelopez1456]

GOAT

[@clobberonline6812]

Where is Saul Now ??????? 2021 needs you !!!! There's a peace treaty with Martians !!!!!

[@kincamell2]

Thank you.

[@ricashy720]

🔥🔥🔥

[@crystal_royal3405]

Deep

[@Lifewmarcos]

Right on Saul! Lookin like young thugs idol

[@zenatman]

Saul is a fuckin treasure

[@ValJonesDaO]

TEACH! We Leap Year Babies tho!

[@Chris19595]

Live by objective truth.

[@nathanosterhaus]

I got a list of demands...

[@om-biancecandles165]

Amen

[@itayshimonov]

From the day of it's founding to the 1960's America's immigration policy was srickly European.

[@ACGSMOOVEMUSIC]

Wasn't he on Lackawanna Blues?

[@nadjaphtaline]

Need subtitles for non natives américan or english langage, thanks

[@bobbykumarsehgal1939]

Saul that new Paul Mooney. Get'em!

[@trlckykid]

paul mooney is not as positive or inspirational, he's opinionated and biased, small minded

[@PS-qv7xv]

Saul Williams and Myke C town of Dead End Hip hop must be related hahah

[@TheMorningIWokeUpDead]

we havent heard this anywhere ever? news to me. tell something usdeful.

[@sagegallon]

100 Saul

[@ghostduster1]

I'm a fan of Saul, but he's criticizing America's fascination with the rich and he just did a huge campaign ad for Louis Vuitton 🤔

[@Banzii_Mavuso]

The man still has to eat. Besides that's a marketing tool for him

[@chadwilliams9141]

Damn Saul Williams is actually woke.

[@ab5903]

👍👍👍👌✊

[@proni1]

deeeeeeep

[@Richard_Cranium]

I voted for Trump.... but Saul is right. America is too fascinated with the rich. we are free to do as we are told.

[@gabel13]

The first thing I learned as a photographer videographer is don’t cut off the head! Back up champ!

[@geminikid609]

I know what you mean but that's not the point right now

[@jameswyatt6076]

Here's a perspective to leave you with before you have your next post or some regurgitated point of view that isn't your own but want to belong to. It's okay. We only ever got to where we are by forming societies of sameness to become more of what we believe to work in order to become an eventual entity that is greater than ourselves, it's a process of unconsciousness that our instinct drives us to. Thinking is dangerous. Thinking leads to being different than the hive mind and that is ultimately against what we are trying to accomplish as a species, to evolve beyond our environment and succeed our limitations to conquer the next plane of existence outside Earth. You can't do that by questioning and challenging common beliefs, you challenge and question what's accepted to BECOME the common belief.

[@TheMoSsyEXcaVation]

praise KEK

[@blessedandjoyful]

slam dunk.

[@TDEIBOLD]

Chew the meat, spit out the bones. On a socioeconomic tip, he's making some great points with which I agree. However, I respectfully disagree with his perspective of religion on the grounds that he has to borrow from a biblical worldview in order to come to many of the conclusions that he has made. I would also assert that he holds to a misapplication of "fear God" and that it is possibly one of the main reasons that he views religion the way he does. I would love to talk with him some more.

[@Mind_OM]

I can see Donald Glover through him

[@malaikamckee-culpepper261]

How prescient...

[@Toddalotapodamus]

I dig Saul Williams, but I don't get this comment section. Genius? Artistically maybe, but there was nothing in this interview that implied anything more than above average intelligence. The only part that could be said to have been spot on was the "fear to control" bit. The only bit that was interesting was the his take on the mysterious, which I disagree with. There are different kinds of mystery and the mystery that was glorified in the past is the same type that is glorified today and the kind that is reviled today was reviled even more so in the past. Everything else about this was fairly trite. One thing that's been funny and ironic to me ever since actually reading anything on history and economics is how artists typically have an anti-capitalist slant, but art is among the first things to go in the absence of capitalism. Bite the hand that feeds indeed.

[@mrkaiman1995]

ASAP rocky prestige 6

[@CyberDocUSA]

Awesome video! #BernieSanders2016

[@emokilla51]

Free shit!

[@chainsawteddybear]

basic free rights

[@DaemonWulf7]

garbage in, garbage out

[@nottrotsky3309]

This video has 98 comments. How much does all the oppulent bullshit have? Take that in and you realize quality is different then quantity.

[@saoul-dean.af1a1fa.89]

Every day is Ashurah and every land is Karbala Lord 🙏 help us. [De] finitivety is for the Trump2020. Fiction though that story is there. :Chief-Russell-J.-:Gould. Fact as well s the Q;72. 6th century through now space. Thanks for the video and your service is valued.

[@lamontbrooks626]

Im just now noticing that Saul Williams is gay. His head movements and speech are 🌈 💯

[@fredsavage4925]

... says the "guy" who wouldn't have left his hipster coffeehouse gigs without reznor. Ok buddy.

[@nickc.8031]

Why are you not SUPER FAMOUS!?

[@Falconpunch82]

hope he doesn't mean that people were more open minded in the film noir era than today - that's patently false

[@jacksoncrick5115]

more like they were brainwashed in a different way than they are today.

[@geminikid609]

It's more like the film noir era is us in love with mystery

[@rajahjain5559]

Stop ingesting it I guess. Start ingesting your faith in The Universe and Gods Sun!

[@joyangels6726]

real talk.. love it... become Anonymous like me.

[@dwightryder3052]

I find it amazing that people like this wax on about what they don't like, yet offer zero solutions. Blah, blah, blah. So, instead of solutions, do exactly what many they cry about are doing, exploit the gullible with their full-time nonsense via producing nothing and calling it something.

[@theseventhworld2990]

Since when did talking about a situation without offering solutions mean your opinion is void? Only in the minds of vapid idiots could this kind of thinking take hold. And sorry, what was that, Saul Williams 'exploits the gullible with (his) full-time nonsense'? Saul Williams is a poet who will be remembered hundreds of years after he is dead, just like Allen Ginsberg et al. He is the only modern poet worth a damn, and history will remember him as such, mark my words. Of course, I'm not going to get into the dialectics of why poets themselves are extremely important, especially in a modern world full of vacuous corporate culture. So you know, just go and listen to him perform Coded Language, and then maybe come back here and think about what you said, because you're dead wrong. Furthermore, I'm doubting 'Dwight Ryder' could produce a piece of art that came anywhere close to what this man does.

[@dwightryder3052]

Thanks for your reply. Talking and walking makes the difference. "Waxing on" has never produced a thing. Stating the obvious fills itching ears. Creating and employing solutions is life.

[@kamalrhudd2547]

I comprehended with everything up to 4:21 mark after that he lost me

[@justindc5362]

just watch fox news and you'll know what he's talking about

[@kamalrhudd2547]

Tommy Generico I'm specifically talking about his perspective on religion, and what fear means in the eyes of God to his vessels here on Earth

[@NvikIngsN]

Just look at the UK and why Brexit passed...

[@kamalrhudd2547]

NvikIngsN Again what does fear means?

[@NvikIngsN]

Polls show Trump and the people who mostly voted for Brexit are older white people and uneducated. I don't like using the term uneducated to label people dumb though. Basically they fear immigrants and minorities are destroying their social structure. I'm white and know people who are not racist, but get scared around black people. Or think their job will be replaced by some minority. They believe immigrants get all of this free stuff that's bankrupting their country. Religion has an element of fear depending on who the messenger is. My church basically implies if your gay you're going to hell and not welcome even though to me it is no worse a sin to have affairs. Or any of the other commandments. Then you have religions that promote God rewards those who live right and pray right. Then a person has a miscarriage or illness and think God is punishing them or even worse, people in that church when you need them most start ignoring you thinking you're cursed. Shame is big too. If you never feared god this might sound like I'm going overboard. Religion as fear has been around since the beginning of time.

[@skinnykenny1371]

Saul Williams equals Babel random words and terms randomly strung together sick how it passes for wisdom

[@emptyclaw1265448]

He's to smart to use the word " shit" so often this Coulter of low standards is rubbing off on him.

[@joyangels6726]

real talk.. love it... become Anonymous like me.