Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis | THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK | Podcast 3

This podcast is released alongside the acclaimed new docuseries 'In The Eye Of The Storm - The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis'. Watch it here: www.eyeofthestorm.info
Brian Eno is an iconic musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. To find out more, go to: www.brian-eno.net/
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. To find out more, go to: www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/
Raoul Martinez is a philosopher, author and filmmaker. To find out more, go to: www.creatingfreedom.info
'Eye Of The Storm Podcast' will release new episodes each week with renowned guests from the world of politics and the arts. Our first episode, however, kicks off with an in-depth interview with Yanis Varoufakis. Please like and subscribe.
Photo credit: the picture of Brian Eno used in the thumbnail was taken by Cecily Eno.
PRODUCED BY DAVIDE CASTRO AND FRANCESCA MARTINEZ.

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  • @EyeOfTheStorm.Podcast
    @EyeOfTheStorm.Podcast24 күн бұрын

    Please like, subscribe, comment and share to help our conversations reach a wider audience.

  • @philipcollier7805
    @philipcollier7805Ай бұрын

    What a pleasant surprise to find two of my favorite people, gathered together for a talk. Thank you, Brian and Yanis.

  • @bladdnun3016

    @bladdnun3016

    Ай бұрын

    I think they're friends. They've certainly spoken in public together before.

  • @mariettestabel275

    @mariettestabel275

    Ай бұрын

    And the fantastic filmmaker Raoul Martinez...

  • @GabrielHellborne
    @GabrielHellborneАй бұрын

    "The one lasting, remaining American value: buying shit!" - George Carlin. It applies to Europe too.

  • @PeppermintPatties
    @PeppermintPatties15 күн бұрын

    "There's nothing more toxically political than the statement 'politics doesn't matter '." Thanks, guys, for verbalising what I've been trying to communicate so unsuccessfully to those around me for decades. Art does matter. We mustn't leave a vacuum for the right to fill. We can all do something to help.

  • @TennesseeJed
    @TennesseeJedАй бұрын

    Art should be a basis for civilization not an extra. It makes meaning for a human existence, and we need meaning more than ever in our profound overshoot.

  • @Fran330
    @Fran33016 күн бұрын

    As a French speaking person, I very much appreciate the mixing, in one conversation, of not only art & politics but also of spirituality & politics. In the French culture, things a much more separated. It's usually totally different people who would talk about those different dimensions of existence. Pitty! Thank you so much for the depth of this talk in particular and for the depth of the whole series really ♥♥♥

  • @d-5037
    @d-5037Ай бұрын

    Eno is a legend. Can't wait to listen to this one.

  • @benjaminmitchell5345
    @benjaminmitchell5345Ай бұрын

    Yanis is so right. The only way I know of the Spanish Civil War is from the Picasso depiction. For me my whole understanding of the event is from his interpretation.

  • @lorilea3188

    @lorilea3188

    Ай бұрын

    it's not too late to read For Whom the Bell Tolls and understand a little more .

  • @JeanSparrow
    @JeanSparrowАй бұрын

    A heartfelt thank you to Raoul for this so important podcast. In these bleak times (thoughts of the people in Gaza) we need to be reminded of what our soul is crying out for - namely people that give us hope and inspire us to go out there and do something the world needs (thank you, Brian!). Yanis, yes we need you to speak!

  • @GlobeHackers
    @GlobeHackersАй бұрын

    It's a pleasure to hear from Brian on these issues. Thanks, Yanis.

  • @clivebroadhead4381

    @clivebroadhead4381

    Ай бұрын

    There aren't any council houses to be sold as they have already been sold to the banks, via the owners by the Tories.

  • @mylenek241
    @mylenek241Ай бұрын

    Brian Eno is one of the greatest musicians in the world, one of my icons who marked my youth and more... Thank you Brian Eno for your courage... 💕💕❤❤

  • @roryofarrell1488
    @roryofarrell1488Ай бұрын

    Yanis: Don't give up because we need you to speak. Raoul: Don't give up beacuse we need you to speak. Brian: Don't give up beacuse we need you to speak.

  • @ColtraneTaylor

    @ColtraneTaylor

    Ай бұрын

    Yeah, the same tedious old mantras. Eno has always been dull outside of his day job.

  • @stuartsmith5146

    @stuartsmith5146

    29 күн бұрын

    @@ColtraneTaylor😂

  • @ColtraneTaylor

    @ColtraneTaylor

    29 күн бұрын

    @@stuartsmith5146 😉

  • @mariaanadelgado9522
    @mariaanadelgado952219 күн бұрын

    Please don't stop! I need you to keep talking. I've watched all the episodes and I'm looking forward to the next one. The word is resistance. Many thanks to everyone involved in this project! ❤

  • @farinshore8900
    @farinshore8900Ай бұрын

    I love Yanis' great respect for the transcedence and for the transformative value of art.

  • @delfimoliveira8883
    @delfimoliveira8883Ай бұрын

    Two brilliant thinkers.

  • @mariettestabel275

    @mariettestabel275

    Ай бұрын

    Three....

  • @sspbrazil
    @sspbrazilАй бұрын

    I love when Yanis and Brian do these discussions.

  • @mariettestabel275

    @mariettestabel275

    Ай бұрын

    And the filmmaker Raoul.

  • @bryonyfearn2470
    @bryonyfearn2470Ай бұрын

    What a wonderful conversation. There was so much i related to. I've spent my life in the arts, as well as working on where and how that crosses into political movement - i think the arts have always been central to social discourse and therefor, politics - I have found one informs the other in a circular motion and this is where humankind can be so powerful, especially that point where surrender occurs, the ego gets out of the way and that wave gets ridden! I also had a radio show for a while called, 'The Arts and Politics" because, to me they are both practices that shape our lives and are capable of enhancing each other. Thanks again, i look forward to hearing more, Bryony, Australia.

  • @roblouw
    @roblouwАй бұрын

    Wow. Brian Eno and Yanis? What a treat.

  • @mariettestabel275

    @mariettestabel275

    Ай бұрын

    And the filmmaker Raoul Martinez.

  • @ericchristen2623
    @ericchristen2623Ай бұрын

    As a writer, artist, poet, philospher, inventor and tutor, I recently wrote a short story called School 2094. The 6 core subjects would be 1. Creativity & Invention 2. Appreciating the Earth 3. Ethics 4. Family 5. Languages and 6. Survival. Education is one of the biggest failures of the dark age we are going through.

  • @ingridnewman5256
    @ingridnewman5256Ай бұрын

    I so enjoyed listening to this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  • @Poetic_Justice1962
    @Poetic_Justice1962Ай бұрын

    That was a beautiful, meaningful conversation. Brian Eno belongs to my memories growing up, him being the collaborator on two albums with David Bowie in the 70's, albums that changed perceptions and conceptions of music, lyrics, and sound, or rather soundscaping in general. The albums were pioneering synthesizer music, picking up where the Beatles left off with the mellotron.

  • @SlavicRusa
    @SlavicRusa26 күн бұрын

    I love to see Brian Eno in our camp ❤️🎶 legend!

  • @scottmcneil1150
    @scottmcneil1150Ай бұрын

    fantastic broadcast, life affirming and very stimulating. wonderful, thank you

  • @stacyeleanza4917
    @stacyeleanza4917Ай бұрын

    What a great soul-feeding conversation! so many gems! Particularly Brian Eno's thoughts about the value of surrender. BIG thanks for this!🌷

  • @lindaespinoza2064
    @lindaespinoza2064Ай бұрын

    Don’t give up, because we need you!!!

  • @mariettestabel275
    @mariettestabel275Ай бұрын

    An Artist must look for light in his heart, in his emotions, in his suffering to extract possibly a breath of creation..

  • @mikewells6121
    @mikewells6121Ай бұрын

    Raoul makes a comment which made me sit up... that the entirety of environmental damage caused by industrial production has been externalised away from the owners of the means of that production. Yet another reason to my thinking that the allocation of money in our culture makes no sense... and is entirely without justice, thus making work generally also a dubious phenomenon.

  • @mariovicente
    @mariovicenteАй бұрын

    Totally agree with Varoufakis on the need to separate Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.

  • @mariettestabel275
    @mariettestabel275Ай бұрын

    Thank You so Much Raoul for making this interesting Documentary.

  • @davefionamaycockbrynaert9259
    @davefionamaycockbrynaert9259Ай бұрын

    Of course, Brian Eno and Yannis Varafoukis! Why didn't I think of that? Bravo to the three of you.

  • @conniekaler
    @conniekalerАй бұрын

    I don’t believe that artists, or anyone for that matter, are not doing “enough” just because they are not actively involved in politics. They are certainly not to blame for the rise of the extreme right. There are other ways of making a positive difference in life that are equally important.

  • @hexxan007
    @hexxan007Ай бұрын

    A warm bath, this talk about the beauty of life. This is what we should focus on if we want a more beautiful world... Thank you, guys.

  • @haydock18
    @haydock18Ай бұрын

    Art is not knowledge, it's questioning and investigating.

  • @Faus4us_Official

    @Faus4us_Official

    17 күн бұрын

    An astute observation.

  • @lindagarland5223
    @lindagarland5223Ай бұрын

    ~28th minute....profoundly stated!!!!!! Thank you to ALL three.❤ P.S. Yanis: we need you to continue speaking. 👂🏼🧠

  • @sama3033
    @sama3033Ай бұрын

    Eno is a national treasure.

  • @PeppermintPatties

    @PeppermintPatties

    Ай бұрын

    Eno is a world heritage site! 😆

  • @noelward1367
    @noelward1367Ай бұрын

    At the 15 minute mark. The Welsh artist (rapper, singer, etc) calls art an "empathy window," in that one of the essential features is you have to be able to imagine and sympathise with an other, that is, feel empathy. Empathy becomes a window into difference. If this is the case, then the program of austerity, which feels no empathy for the other, is not merely cutting budgets but waging war on those things that can produce that empathy which will naturally be critical of it.

  • @RedBrigades
    @RedBrigadesАй бұрын

    Wonderful✊️✊️✊️

  • @globalcitizen6309
    @globalcitizen6309Ай бұрын

    Thank you all for this beautiful and meaningful conversation 👍🏼🕊️

  • @Mimicry161
    @Mimicry161Ай бұрын

    Love these. Keep it up.

  • @stewartcohen-jones2949
    @stewartcohen-jones2949Ай бұрын

    I didn’t know I needed this until I needed this . Fascinating conversation.

  • @Cactuspractice12
    @Cactuspractice12Ай бұрын

    egg-heads united!

  • @tracysample6942
    @tracysample69423 күн бұрын

    Those first words from Brian lamenting the state of the arts and the lack of resistance from artists themselves is just heartbreaking. Everybody still wants to be a pop star though.

  • @leenissa1473
    @leenissa1473Ай бұрын

    What a beautiful conversation. Thank you🙏❤

  • @nicks9321
    @nicks932119 күн бұрын

    The active choice that is required to surrendering control to being a part of an ecosystem… it seems logical and succinct when presented like that, but until I heard it framed this way, I never realized how there’s power in the active choice, and it’s not a surrendering of agency! Stimulating conversation! Thanks for sharing!

  • @davidjones4050
    @davidjones4050Ай бұрын

    Art is alchemical, it has transformative power.

  • @mariettestabel275
    @mariettestabel275Ай бұрын

    Brian Eno "Discreet Music " Beautiful! Thank You Yanis. Also thanks to Raoul.

  • @chanademoura
    @chanademoura15 күн бұрын

    Beautiful! Thank you all.

  • @rainbowpeace13
    @rainbowpeace13Ай бұрын

    Excellent discussion,,,,thank you!

  • @peterboytRaKs
    @peterboytRaKsАй бұрын

    Great guests and program. Thanks. "Art is for sissies"., Who do not or cannot know the difference between fantasy and reality. A simple photograph 'artistically' taken/edited etc. can transform an industry. A piece of music can calm the spirit of the most insidious warring criminal. A portrait of a vase of flowers and a violin can be the inspiration for a prosperous family genealogy or a pedigree, make a grown man cry, heal the spiritual wounds of trauma or unite a civilization. Let us not underestimate the profound power of the 'arts' and music more specifically. It's the only endeavour nobody needs permission or license to engage in.

  • @kaeltkottmir

    @kaeltkottmir

    Ай бұрын

    People who said about the art is for siss are the worst kind ever heard

  • @peterboytRaKs

    @peterboytRaKs

    Ай бұрын

    @@kaeltkottmir But they do exist just about everywhere you look.

  • @HillbillyHippyOG
    @HillbillyHippyOGАй бұрын

    STEM makes modern life possible, but the Arts make modern life worth living. ✌🏼

  • @LokiBeckonswow
    @LokiBeckonswowАй бұрын

    yanis is GOAT 🙌

  • @giovannimondo4113
    @giovannimondo4113Ай бұрын

    Great discussion on those topics and their relations , coking out with the only question that wouldn t be taken in consideration

  • @1augustots
    @1augustotsАй бұрын

    Grande Brian Eno Um gigante ❤❤❤❤

  • @MohaTahlil
    @MohaTahlilАй бұрын

    Greetings from all the way Somalia, What a great discussion, two brilliant minds.

  • @mariettestabel275

    @mariettestabel275

    Ай бұрын

    Three....

  • @MohaTahlil

    @MohaTahlil

    Ай бұрын

    @@mariettestabel275 thanks for the correction. Three beautiful minds

  • @mariettestabel275

    @mariettestabel275

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@MohaTahlil❤

  • @apolloforabetterfuture4814
    @apolloforabetterfuture481424 күн бұрын

    8:33 David Graber was such a gift

  • @r.w.bottorff7735
    @r.w.bottorff7735Ай бұрын

    So pleased to see an artistic hero of mine on your wonderful podcast. Excellent installment.

  • @mindfulawareness1
    @mindfulawareness125 күн бұрын

    Riding on a bus through Kilburn... Great conversation.

  • @barbaragood7844
    @barbaragood784427 күн бұрын

    Thank you very much for this very important conversation 🌼💛🌷

  • @claudetteleece8076
    @claudetteleece8076Ай бұрын

    Such an amazing conversation from a generally control freak, who was taught a lot today, on a different view of control.

  • @diegob8319
    @diegob8319Ай бұрын

    "All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda." U. Sinclair (I think)

  • @sebbyknight
    @sebbyknight22 күн бұрын

    What a sparkling (if tired *wink) 60 minutes of film. Thank you for the insight, enlightenment and bleak inspiration for an unlikely better future.

  • @criscris5061
    @criscris5061Ай бұрын

    Wonderful conversation. Inspiring

  • @JL88
    @JL88Ай бұрын

    Always good to hear Eno speak…very engaging. As was Veroufakis. Thank you for the video.

  • @ericrobinson7184
    @ericrobinson7184Ай бұрын

    Excellent conversation...you guys plowed over a lot of ground...I'm tired!

  • @liveontheverandah
    @liveontheverandahАй бұрын

    Fabulous discussion as always. Thank you.

  • @alexanderguryev2416
    @alexanderguryev24166 күн бұрын

    Thanks so much for this discussion! The world desperately needs this kind of discussion to heal. In the end of the conversation, you mentioned an interesting thought, i.e. that the modern society tries to apply the left brain logics to solve complex problems we are now dealing with, but that only makes it worse. The similar thoughts are found in the work of a British philosopher and specialist in neurocognitive science, Iain McGilchrist. Moreover, he also underlies the importance of art, humanities, and imagination for the well-being of the society, in the era where many things - that make us human - are more and more reduced to algorithms and metrics. It would be lovely to see him as your guest, especially in the company of such a great thinker and artist as Brian Eno.

  • @jameelaahmed5239
    @jameelaahmed52392 сағат бұрын

    Loved this ❤

  • @avtwvns
    @avtwvnsАй бұрын

    The temple of Efea and the setting at Aegina is indeed stunning.

  • @susannegerber7360
    @susannegerber7360Ай бұрын

    art, art, art ... within and without ... real and rlevant ... the aesthetic regime ... always present always available ... here and now and transcendent as well ... like the breath, like life, like death as well ...

  • @EsmeClutterbuck-xi9uk
    @EsmeClutterbuck-xi9uk11 күн бұрын

    This was a fantastic conversation. So glad I heard it. Thank you

  • @catythatzall4now
    @catythatzall4nowАй бұрын

    Brian you are an artist I really like - you have held me with your music - and we have never met - you make me feel connected to people are like me

  • @ivanklass1
    @ivanklass122 күн бұрын

    The philosophy of 21st century politics are: "There isn't such a thing as society or there's such a thing as art that projects the society as itself to be monoculture." Written by Ivan Klass

  • @BrunoWiebelt
    @BrunoWiebelt18 күн бұрын

    outstanding thank you to you 3

  • @hoodparticles
    @hoodparticlesАй бұрын

    Brain Eno motivated me to make ambient compositions. Great show!!!!

  • @jillfryer6699
    @jillfryer6699Ай бұрын

    'Religion as a form of art', says Eno. I'd love to see the paper when he writes it. This is fascinating, I only ever thought of him as an innovative musician, never imagined he'd have the whatever left over to be proper innovative thinker.

  • @kensurrency2564
    @kensurrency2564Ай бұрын

    There are those of us who cling to the existing paradigm, and then there are the rest of us who want to change and know we MUST change and who are willing to do what is necessary for the benefit of everyone and the planet as a whole. The current system is unsustainable and everyone knows it, even those who fear changing it. But we must. Status quo is not an option.

  • @PeppermintPatties

    @PeppermintPatties

    Ай бұрын

    Yes ✊

  • @davidjohnhull
    @davidjohnhull18 күн бұрын

    Brilliant

  • @samloutalbotmusic
    @samloutalbotmusic6 күн бұрын

    Another brilliant convo btw these two !

  • @papi5377
    @papi5377Ай бұрын

    Jesteś na dobrej drodze.

  • @christinaoconnell6460
    @christinaoconnell646011 күн бұрын

    Thankyou ... each ... inspired and inspiring ... art , heart and hearth 🙃

  • @nevtrainor8574
    @nevtrainor857417 күн бұрын

    This is such an amazing and insightful conversation which would be broadened and contextualised further I think by bringing to people’s awareness the work of Iain McGilchrist (see his books The Master snd His Emissary and The Matter With Things Vols 1 & 2). McGilchrist cites Murdochs’s book on the sovereignty of the good amongst close to 6000 other references in showing how the brain’s left hemisphere with its narrowed (and so limited/blindspot attention) values power, control, utility and pleasure over all else while the right hemisphere stands back in open and curious receptivity to experience (a precursor to surrender) and is guided by values aligned to integrity/virtue, wisdom (beauty, goodness and truth) and the sacred connectedness of all things. The left and right hemispheres are in a dialectical tension just as at a societal (political, economic, spiritual) level their is tension between the individualistic and collectivist forms of organising and governing a community/nation. What is missing at the individualistic end of the continuum is the willingness to surrender to virtue, wisdom and sacredness due to the myriad distorted beliefs that are generated by the myopic vision of the left hemisphere so confidently occupied by the political right. McGilchrist would be an excellent person to invite into the Eye of the Storm discussions. Love and admire the work you are doing ❤️ please keep it up because we need you !!

  • @troygaspard6732
    @troygaspard6732Ай бұрын

    Voltaire made his first success with a play. The arts are the beginning of movements.

  • @nailadr
    @nailadrАй бұрын

    Amazing 👍

  • @lindalauwers391
    @lindalauwers391Ай бұрын

    Thank you all so inspyering

  • @-m4nGo-
    @-m4nGo-Ай бұрын

    BRIAN ENO, ENNIO MORRICONE, ERIC SERRA My solid top ever evers.

  • @Nine-Signs
    @Nine-Signs18 күн бұрын

    I write music, it's all that keeps me living. But I cant make money from it, I wouldn't know how, but it's what I do, and anything else destroys my soul, as 20 years of working in customer services did.

  • @lemilemi5385
    @lemilemi5385Ай бұрын

    Brian eno seems, surprisingly, intellectually mundane! And yanis appears spiritually equivalent.

  • @TennesseeJed

    @TennesseeJed

    Ай бұрын

    I think serious more than mundane because it is very important to him.

  • @ColtraneTaylor

    @ColtraneTaylor

    Ай бұрын

    What hope does a Marxist have in that area?

  • @moustafachoucair506
    @moustafachoucair506Ай бұрын

    Here because of Sunshine Jones.....and Yanis and Brian! Love

  • @conniekaler
    @conniekalerАй бұрын

    Very interesting talk. Ask Charles Eisenstein on 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @ivanklass1
    @ivanklass119 күн бұрын

    If on any jobs an individual applies for, there is such legal information and issue as "Profiling of the individual" that they company are aware from any social media being used by the interviewer, this is a breach of the UK article 8 of Human Rights Act 1988 from which it clearly states that: "An individual do have the right to correspondence and privacy and family." and it's also a breach of UK Data Protection Act 2018, "data should be used very fairly, proportionate and not against the individual" therefore such breaches could lead to up to 30 years imprisonment under the UK laws..of the HR jobs Department.. Best to you, Ivan Klass

  • @LokiBeckonswow
    @LokiBeckonswowАй бұрын

    pls keep speaking yanis 35:52 and pls i hope many people continue to share yanis's technofeudalism book, every human deserves to understand our shared cloud serfdom

  • @stephenthestoryteller3139
    @stephenthestoryteller3139Ай бұрын

    Yes 🙏

  • @stavroskarageorgis4804
    @stavroskarageorgis4804Ай бұрын

    Deliberate artistic alienation.

  • @KassJuanebe
    @KassJuanebe4 күн бұрын

    Wonderful conversation. Thank you. I can't figure out how to buy the actual documentary. I don't have Amazon Prime. I can't seem to get it on Vimeo either.🙄

  • @Vrailly
    @VraillyАй бұрын

    I can tell Raoul has* been watching Schmachtenberger, Vervaeke et al. 😂

  • @ivanklass1
    @ivanklass120 күн бұрын

    "The Odysseus mythology of a great social friendship that never surrender..." Written by Ivan Klass

  • @criscris5061
    @criscris5061Ай бұрын

    I would like to know at least one example of a dangerous art

  • @hawkstrike18
    @hawkstrike18Ай бұрын

    Just the first 10 minutes present the normal logic that's missing from most ppl; and we wonder what's going wrong and why... I have no idea what political views Brian Eno has and I'm not truly familiar with his own art, but he's a gem for these few words alone. This is a win. But it's a win that few appreciate and understand, much like the good music that goes largely unnoticed by most. It's why I've been mentioning things about vicious cycles and paradoxes and self-inflicted prophecies... We don't really get what we choose every day (well, most of us again). And yes, marketing and the capitalistic greed is ingrained in us now, and i don't see many truly determined to resist anything about it, lol... Choices speak volumes no matter how much some ppl shout against things and situations. When you say you oppose the roots of evil you should at least, dunno, not have the same goals-incentives as the ones you criticize. It's all quite ridiculous by now, and we always choose the most self-destructive way to view life. And blame whatever we want to blame on whoever it is we want to blame (beat). No matter how successful such strategies are in achieving sabotaging others etc, we cannot get more stupid than that. Pfft. Yes, what we like and choose says everything about us (and shows the level of deep hopelessness, and the type of enjoyment in that despair - been seeing even younger ppl, not necessarily teens, unable to enjoy the normal things they should be enjoying, and instead being turned into trolls and cynics of the worst type). But how many are looking (with the right balance) at themselves to see what they've become?

  • @hawkstrike18

    @hawkstrike18

    Ай бұрын

    ...in the words of Frodo: Can you protect me from yourself? 🤔

  • @ivanklass1
    @ivanklass119 күн бұрын

    I hope one day to be able to buy that basement in Portobello road... Love IK

  • @davidwright8432
    @davidwright8432Ай бұрын

    The areas addressed particularly near the end, of 'meaning', 'surrender', and 'love' are utterly alien to libertarianism, and neoliberalism; but core to being human. Externalities rule OK!