All these years later, Kurt Vonnegut is still one of my favorite friends on the bookshelf!

@MadonnaGrogan

12 күн бұрын

Same

ive always been HONORED that i saw him in Stratford

So it goes.

@Shmarful

Жыл бұрын

well done.

@allencollins6031

11 ай бұрын

Po tweet

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

@mikescott4195

Ай бұрын

Aw man that epitaph always hit hard

"if this isn't nice I don't know what is" I love you all God bless you May we all find our own peace

Watching these 2 'preserved ghosts' talk about "time"; to help revive the value of living. 🤔 Thanks for this.

James Mossman, the interviewer here, killed himself a year after this interview. What an excellent interviewer he was, and obviously a sensitive soul.

@andydixon2980

Жыл бұрын

That's very tragic. I could never have guessed from what I've just seen.

@pistachiowarcrimes6885

6 ай бұрын

His suicide note read "I can't bear it anymore, though I don't know what 'it' is"

@richardchason

5 ай бұрын

​@@pistachiowarcrimes6885What a terrifying note. I don't envy his psyche.

@liammcooper

5 ай бұрын

Jesus

@DemonetisedZone

4 ай бұрын

I was certain that was Alan Watts😂

Oh my. I love Kurt Vonnegut- my absolute favorite writer. @1:27 his response to why he writes briefly about women, is just perfect in every sense. Thank you, Kurt!

@cappuccinobean2442

2 ай бұрын

I found it a bit disappointing...Why does it have to be a love story if a woman is involved? Kind of makes it seem like women only exist as objects of desire and can't drive a deeper plot.

@Karaokuma

12 күн бұрын

​@cappuccinobean2442 It's not so much about the involvement of women as it is the perspective from which the story is told. If a man writes about a woman, there's always a degree of separation because life is different for men and women. A female character from a male writer can only ever be an estimation.

8:40 this is so brilliant - these are the ideas explored in Fight Club and Mr. Robot - that computers and machines would have to be factored in when overthrowing a society. And Kurt knew back in 1970 🤯

@lewis5384

4 ай бұрын

I do believe it was the subject of his first book. You would be surprised how many of our problems today were predicted in the 50s and 60s.

This was absolutely wonderful.

Great writers often have these slightly crazy theories about why certain things happens in the world, their own mythos. I don't necessarily agree with him but it doesn't matter, he wasn't running for office, he can have "interesting" ideas that make us think about the world differently, if only for a minute or two.

@shakazulu5665

Жыл бұрын

But was he wrong? Do you not see the Orwellian world we now live it? 1984 is literally the status quo nowadays. Science is now a dogmatic cult like religion and "the science is settled" when thats not how scientific discoveries work

@Daniel-nh3qr

10 ай бұрын

Beautifully said.

@cappuccinobean2442

2 ай бұрын

Very good way of thinking :)

My dad was a fan of his writings. What can I say.. Don't worry. It's not the end of the world. 🙂👍

@bluepvp900

Жыл бұрын

That made me laugh like hell.

@A-432-Zone

7 ай бұрын

And yet, ironically, this IS the end of the world. And Vonnegut foresaw the whole thing in every word he spoke here. And still, people in the very comments here are lightly passing him off as gifted but a little "crazy." They cannot she through the poetry when the truth becomes so nullified. This truly is the curse of the great artists.

@proto-geek248

3 ай бұрын

It's not the end of the world. Mankind's belief that he can harm the Earth is the most pompous of notions. "The world isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!" George Carlin

@naomigee1109

Ай бұрын

Yes it is

@christopher_ecclestone

10 күн бұрын

It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.

"There's something about my teachings, or about my writings, I think that discourages everybody from reproducing."

My Favorite Author. Started out with Cat's Cradle and I was hooked ❤❤

really and truly on a higher plane

The absolute man. So happy to see new footage. Love all you. Here we go again!

An impressive deep thinking man. The story of his survival in Dresden is pretty mind blowing and deeply ironical and I think it must have jolted him awake.

My favourite book of all time.

@soundspace7467

Жыл бұрын

It’s a good one.

Great mind great interview

D quality of d audio is top notch. Thanx.

Whether you agree with his ideas or not, one of the 20th Century's great thinkers. Full of wisdom amd humour.

@sexobscura

9 ай бұрын

Humour is the wisdom that is like a warm breeze in winter

@A-432-Zone

7 ай бұрын

Yes. In a way he was THE modern-day Mark Twain.

"To win or to quit" Wow.

I feel the same about an infinite regress, we are doomed to repeat this for eternity

@Kyoto_Ed

8 ай бұрын

I think we all experience every living things life for infinity

@proto-geek248

3 ай бұрын

Now is forever.

6:36 in… “ They ( his children) don’t see life as an amusing opportunity, and I’d hoped they would.”

This is a reminder for me to either watch the Slaughterhouse-Five movie / read the book or both.

@kamandi1362

Жыл бұрын

Just read the book.

@soundspace7467

Жыл бұрын

Read the book. Now.

@ryang7759

7 ай бұрын

read it!!!

@proto-geek248

3 ай бұрын

Both. Book 1st.

@MadonnaGrogan

12 күн бұрын

Book excellent

Good interview, I can’t believe I haven’t read Slaughterhouse Five. It’s on my list!

@M05tly

14 күн бұрын

I am sure you will enjoy it greatly, it is a truly excellent book!

he will be in the canon. mark my words. if i had heros, joe, fred, robin... those, and this guy.

@proto-geek248

3 ай бұрын

Palooka, Flintstone & Hood?

Woosh! ... 1:20... right over the dull perception of the interviewer. At the end, Vonnegut manages to provide the bona fides for eternal recurrence or multiple worlds with the Spinoza reference, but makes clear he came by the opinion honestly (even as a American).

"Spinoza had already said all of this" ...

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is!

Good vibrations

so it goes

As much as I love Kurt Vonnegut, it is perfectly possible to write about women as people and not simply introduce them as a love story 😳

@alexanderacostaosorio

9 ай бұрын

Women represent something that's not present in Vonnegut's work, hence, the limited and almost non-existent reference.

@dylanhatesyou

8 ай бұрын

@@alexanderacostaosorio maybe not in Slaughterhouse 5 but there are female characters in other novels

@A-432-Zone

7 ай бұрын

Oh, I don't think that's what he was saying all. He almost always "speaks" between the lines. Same thing for his novels.

@SearchIndex

7 ай бұрын

That’s not what he was saying

@LuminousTurtle2029

5 ай бұрын

It also is a sign of intelligence when you know yourself so well that you know you can't write female characters aside from their being in a romantic setting. I'm not saying this is how he felt. This is how I interpret what he said. I could be wrong.

🌻

Peace.

Kilgore Trout is not a very good writer, he's more of an ideas man🤩

We just have to learn navigating infinity a bit better

14:05 What is Vonnegut saying here? Where was he?

@BBCArchive

Жыл бұрын

Biafra.

@stephenburke7108

Жыл бұрын

Republic of Biafra (part of Nigeria, Africa today)

Looking remarkably like Swiss Toni. Being a famous novelist...

@alancawfield6549

Жыл бұрын

Writing a novel is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman, you find a quiet place to do it, you make sure you have enough lead in your pencil and then you keep going until you've reached a satisfying climax.

@MartinCellarDJ

Жыл бұрын

​@@alancawfield6549 superb.

A true Christian AND Buddhist! We love 'ya, Kurt!

I am not responding well.

I had to laugh like hell

THAT happiness is mine.

Just finished Hocus Pocus a few minutes ago. Cough.

System ..........is presently......dying.

We All Live Like that...mind in the present, past & future

" ... doesn't give you the right to rule the universe "

Alan Arkin was sick of Acting in 1970, he's still doing it now, sort of feel sorry for him now.😆

@proto-geek248

3 ай бұрын

Mr. Arkin passed away June, 29 2023 RIP 🙏

Hi Ho

Hi ho.

Poo tee weet 🐦

Hare Krishna

James was not listening... Kept asking the same questions... Glad it was Kurt that he kept talking...

I mean, clearly, he's no Ballard, but he's alright.

america, the collective narcissist