don't ever delete this masterpiece of intellect

This is favorite talk by Hitchens. I go back to it time and time again. He was so sharp, and around a such small cozy crowd of what seems just like friends... that he came off as just a guy you could sit and talk with for hours upon hours just picking his brain apart trying to find out what makes him tick. He clearly loved Jefferson and the core ideals that Jefferson, I'm sure, would have been most proud of people referencing about him hundreds of years later. Hitch's eloquence and personality really shines through here and it remains consistently my favorite talk throughout the years.

@chrispywilliams1992

Жыл бұрын

i think this is my new favourite too

@mr.jazzbodkelsey58

Жыл бұрын

Well said ✌️

We don’t see great minds like Mr. Hitchens too often. Especially today. I miss him dearly.

He's so fucking cool, I envy how much he oozes charisma.

@3leon306

2 жыл бұрын

Weird, sad

Hitch? Whiskey? Jefferson?...strap in.

@arlen1630

6 ай бұрын

Hitch ... marijuana??..... cocaine??? tobacco 😢

@placebojesus5652

6 ай бұрын

Dicks out for Harambe

@edwardsmith1060

5 ай бұрын

My people.

He may be gone but he will forever be my teacher.....

Having watched surely all of Hitchens videos over the years in binges, this has to be his most receptive and on board audience. He’s on fire as a result.

0:31 That look to the whisky. So lucrative and genuine.

Wonderful man!! So sorry he is not with us anymore, I don't know why they do not show him to the world through tv

@TechnoBoizzz

Жыл бұрын

Because most people are religious and Christopher is too intelligent for them to dare share his words or ideas on certain ways of thinking that contradict what most people have. It would be the end of religion and dogma IMO

Now Jefferson's own descendants are petitioning to remove his monuments from our nation's capitol

@nativevirginian8344

11 ай бұрын

That’s because they are 21st century morons.

Christopher died, and the world went to shit. Would love to hear him respond to current mess.

@benaffleckisanokayactor

Жыл бұрын

You made that comment and the world went to shit even more

@hazeshi6779

Жыл бұрын

I think the cracks must've existed back then. Now it's up to us to uphold our principles in this age.

Miss this man.

@RedRider1600

7 жыл бұрын

A great American . . .

@dubgrug89

6 жыл бұрын

I wonder what we would say about the current affairs in the U.S. today

@isaiahl444

6 жыл бұрын

Well he is in Hell, theres no communion there. And the fire never dies.

@0mnicide

4 жыл бұрын

Isaiah L Yes hes in hell. So is everybody else who isn’t the same religion I am. That’s what these people get for not belonging to the right religion. Tortured for eternity for not agreeing with me. You’ll probably go to hell as well because my religion has a hell and you’ve never heard of it sooooo sucks to be you.

@boblozaintherealworld3577

4 жыл бұрын

@@0mnicide And so hence, my mother and father in-laws reside in this "hell" as they were not only not Christians, but not even "good" Jews. I can only assume then, that all the real estate in 'Heaven" is still in a bidding war among Christians, Jews, Muslims, and yes the Mormons. Well, there goes the neighborhood.

We all love that he looks like he hasn't slept and has been wearing the same clothes for a week. :-)

@painstruck01

5 жыл бұрын

aka linen. he wore linen suits because that's most comfortable for the more portly gent who may enjoy a drink or two in good, and especially in bad, company. linen is a bitch to iron - but it's breathable.

@painstruck01

5 жыл бұрын

fyi Turnbull & Asser shirt

He was pretty smashed here (see the whisky in the mug), but his intelligence and fluency just shone through amazingly.

@MUFFINHEAD1985

2 ай бұрын

charm

@2Worlds_and_InBetween

Ай бұрын

sometimes you need to blunt the interlect to make it available to a greater number of users

I envy anyone who got to see him and get that close to him in person, asking him questions.. RIP

53:55 - Best part. Christopher Hitchens was so witty.

@loafersheffield

5 жыл бұрын

Oooh put your hand in. Oooh, put your other hand in. Yes! Yes!! Now, CLAP! I can't clap! Told you I was tight!

Whether you agree or disagree with this man, there is no doubt that he was noble and independent in his thinking compared with his contemporaries. Well read and relentlessly led by reason and fact. Nonsequitor side note: when he mistakenly says cholera in place of small pox

55:00 pissed my self laughing... What a wit that man had!

It kinda bums me out that Hitch was such a fan of "Q and A", because honestly the audience is almost never on the same intellectual playing field and I end up wishing he'd have just spoken for the whole period. It was a good lecture, though.

@brianjacob8728

10 ай бұрын

exactly. They try, but the questions fall short of his intellect.

@mountjlswgoh7111

20 күн бұрын

I get it in retrospect - we with the luxury of rewatching could learn more. That said, nothing helps the individuals present *at the time* than interactive discussion, particularly when the speaker was a sharp wit like Hitch. I was a naive, mid-20-something year old and had little to no interest in politics or religion at the time of this recording. I’m just grateful to be able to see this content today.

'Before it's too late' was completely perfect.

I like this. It's the most..."informal" video of him I've ever seen.

@qounqer

7 жыл бұрын

he's drunk as hell

@Biyer11

7 жыл бұрын

Thats the awesome bit :)

If you're looking for a video with Hitchens at his most hilarious, this is your video.

@fredthemanish

7 жыл бұрын

Aaron Warren he has done jokes on stage.

@Anicius_

Жыл бұрын

I am always looking for videos where he's more serious. His jokes deviate the attention from knowledge to ®≠^€¥π¥×™ and i cant get through it

19:00 Can't do that anymore (Chris having a square during Q&A). It's hard to have a cigarette on planet Earth anymore these days.

@lebens_muede

Ай бұрын

bro just go outside

Dawkins released your last interview on my birthday this year. Pure coincidence, no significance… except for me, it was a nice birthday present!

Wonderfull

The core of Hitchens it's here: Sec 27:00 to 27:32

IT’S HIS CRYSTAL BLUE EYES AND HIS SEXUAL CHARISMS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miss hitch 😪

What a guy, he would be running rife with criticism on the current state of affair's.

Did Dennis Hopper introduce him?

Bottle of red, cigarette and the hitch x

18:30 23:25 37:05 40:57 55:00

Latin quote at start is from Horace.

Comrades

....drink your beer before it gets cold. I'll have to use that phrase at some point.

@brianjacob8728

10 ай бұрын

only in europe

The poster of this wonderful talk; is that James "V" o r James the 5 th 😄

That was below the belt! George did not engage in any act of oil for profit.

When in 2006 was this?

Folder of time

@JeremyHelm

5 ай бұрын

1:10 'change only the name and the story is about you' Virgil (in Latin)

@JeremyHelm

5 ай бұрын

2:25 once people work out God is not going to help you, you get the enlightenment

@JeremyHelm

5 ай бұрын

3:44 Thomas Paine enters the chat

@JeremyHelm

5 ай бұрын

5:07 rewriting John Locke

De te fabula narratur. - one of Karl Marx's favourite quotes. ( from Horace ).

Aw, it faded out at a critique of Winston Churchill pre 1946. It did not go on to, in some way absolve WC of his failings up to this point and presumably go on to praise WC of his resolute and steadfast opposition to the threats of fascism. "we shall go on to the end....."

Did the woman at 38:00 not know where she was?

There's so much that I like in what Christopher Hitchens says, here and elsewhere. But I think his remarks here about the relationship of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings are simplistic. Maybe he hadn't read _Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy_ (1997), by Annette Gordon-Reede (a remarkable biographer of Jefferson), which is the fairest analysis of the controversy that I've ever encountered.

@smadaf

9 ай бұрын

He's also in error, at 17:30, when he says that all Sally Hemings's children "passed as white" in the 1830 census. For one thing, two of them, the elder Harriet and an unnamed daughter, had died, in 1797 and 1799, respectively. Two of her sons chose to be known in their adult lives as black, even though they were seven eighths white.

@smadaf

9 ай бұрын

It's also not true that "you can get a wonderful book now with pictures of all the descendants from both sides of Jefferson's family", if the pictures are supposed to be from life.

Pat Robertson has gone to our reward.

40:15 - 'huge surplus'? You mean the £40billion deficit he ran in 2005/06? (Not huge in percentage terms - under 3% of GDP, I think - but hardly a surplus, let alone a huge one.)

Not one time did I see him exhale from each drag of a cigarette 😮

Too much booze and cigs. If only he practised moderation he probably still be alive today.

15:30 31:50 41:25 43:37 59:30 1:05:40 1:07:05 😂46:23

😊

42:20 - He could very well be describing America since the separatists took power.

53:55🤣

Look how deeply he takes in the cigarette. No wonder he got cancer.

@seninha12321

9 жыл бұрын

журналист RIP Christopher Hitchens

@tteedghihh

8 жыл бұрын

***** Why are "skeptics" always complete arseholes?

@tteedghihh

8 жыл бұрын

***** I'm not referring to your supposed dialectic superiority (usually just Dunning-Kruger effect at work), but your general psychiatric malaise, and unpleasantness, which manifests itself in wanting to argue everything no matter how trivial and masturbate your ego at every chance.

@tteedghihh

8 жыл бұрын

***** Talk about projection. You were the one who started the 'holier than thou' tone.

@DocC993

7 жыл бұрын

Hitchens actually had the same form of esophageal cancer from which his father had died

29:50 This somewhat inaccurate. For instance, in the case of Germany it is somewhat of a misappropriation to say that despotism, in the shape of Emperor Willhelm II., caused the German "Empire" to join the war. The British angle on history usually completely omits to mention that the German Realm had a parliament. In fact the parliament was there before the "empire". This "Empire" was "founded" in 1871 at the end of the Franco-German war, while democracy in the shape of a parliament had existed in differing iterations since 1848. The social reforms Realm Chancellor Bismarck introduced represent his considered effort to thwart the SPD, which he despised and persecuted. In this context it needs to be said that this parliament supported the war, the declaration of war actually enjoyed wide spread public support. Hence democracy was co-responsible for WWI. And the UN had a predecessor, the League of Nations.

*"The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that, by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen. These considerations, and others such as these, may enable us in some measure to surmount the difficulties thrown in our way; to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under the burden of life; and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation, till we arrive at our journey's end, when we may deliver up our trust into the hands of Him who gave it, and receive such reward as to him shall seem proportioned to our merit." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Page, Jul. 15, 1763*

the roman empire never fell it's even bigger now

@RollingCalf

6 жыл бұрын

I somewhat agree. did you know that all of Maria Medici's children were kings, queens, and consorts of such of England, France, Spain, and half of the rest of Europe. Maria Medici is Roman/Italian.

@painstruck01

5 жыл бұрын

lol. riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

@NormanDubowitz

2 ай бұрын

America Romans of the modern world

I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. -- Thomas Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman on June 24, 1826

It may have been a blessing that Christopher passed before he would have witnessed this hapless administration. I think that would have killed him for sure.

@brianjacob8728

10 ай бұрын

Biden was in the same ilk as Clinton. Hitchens would have lambasted him. And Trump as well.

OMG. it's the " here in my backyard, asshole, again!

Cat

Aaaand today your choice is Biden, or Trump ~ the candidacy has shrunk even more!

The comment at around forty minutes is interesting. He has already mentioned Hillary Clinton, then he says he thinks we have seen the end of social democracy. In a rare instance here, Hitch has missed the tells of some important players.

@brianjacob8728

10 ай бұрын

Hillary isn't a leftist. She just decided to pose as one with Bill.

Paine: Who, Trump? I'm going back to England. In fact, I would be very interested to see if the 'American experiment' has been for the better or worse, according to lives saved, lives lost, and so on.

"Faith is not a virtue" as he takes a drag and sips his whiskey. Classic Hitch. Anyone who wants to evaluate ole Hitch merely has to watch his response at 35:00. Clearly an example of an overinflated ego and unjustified sense of worth.

Hitchens was a very good writer and orator but he made a great number of mistakes in his writings and was wrong about many things. But I guess that’s true for many thinkers

@brianjacob8728

10 ай бұрын

He started missing the mark after 911.

I see Mr. Hitchens fell for the fallacies begun by Fawn Brodie regarding Sally Hemings. This has been refuted by so much research.

@joeruiz4010

2 ай бұрын

What fallacies? John and Samuel Adams, Benjamin Rush, James Wilson, Roger Sherman, and George Mason all knew about Sally Hemmings being Jefferson's Sex Slave. Wilson, Sherman, and Samuel Adams reviled Jefferson. Heck, Jefferson practically plagiarized Benjamin Rush.

If self governance were a sport this man could not hold Thomas Jefferson's jock strap.

Hitchens' view of the so-called founding fathers was myopic at best. They delivered an unworkable political system based on the only political system they knew - the British monarchy - gave it a new name and called it a democracy. Then Americans spent a couple of hundred years amending the system to get it to work properly and it's still just as dysfunctional as it was back then. Rather than being revered, the founding fathers should be reviled and would be if they hadn't had the benefit of a few hundred years of great PR and a credulous audience.

@arriuscalpurniuspiso

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 💯

@breft3416

3 ай бұрын

Hitch is correct about at least having a Constitution that says otherwise. The top 1% chooses to amend or not follow it. Most of us are too myopic to do much but vote for the lessor of two evils. And the two evils are pretty much the same guy.

@joeruiz4010

2 ай бұрын

You sound like Kim Jong Un and Pol Pot. Such wonderful company to be in.

@hawkesworth1712

2 ай бұрын

@@joeruiz4010 and you sound like a clueless moron with nothing intelligent to say. Try telling me what was incorrect about what I said dickhead.

@hawkesworth1712

2 ай бұрын

@@joeruiz4010 . and you sound clueless. If that's all you can come up with as far as intelligent replies are concerned you probably should stop watching Hitchens videos and concentrate on basket weaving.

He sure likes himself and he likes others liking him.

@Bajro97

6 жыл бұрын

allamakee1397 A good thing that.

@rowesawyer4533

6 жыл бұрын

allamakee1397 What’s wrong with being content with yourself and deriving pleasure from others good nature towards you? If you’re not inherently evil or manipulative then it seems to me a perfectly good thing.

@painstruck01

5 жыл бұрын

envy is a deadly sin. i suspect you already know that.

@fishfingers8441

Жыл бұрын

@@painstruck01 lmfao you think he was worried

@painstruck01

Жыл бұрын

@@fishfingers8441 do i think who is worried?

If 'God' allows free will, it is clear that the Deity has no need to know whatever future humans bring forth, ergo the exclusivity of Calvinism is unnecessary.

an obelisk is a grave stone of a freemason.

The hijacking and misuse of religion is the problem . NOT RELIGION.Humanity requires a mechanism to express metaphysical depths that nature's under pinning's exist beyond the limits of lineal essential constraints for language to work..

@1984isnotamanual

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever read the bible?

@nathantaylor-gk5qm

11 ай бұрын

​@@1984isnotamanualAssuming you have read the bible. May I ask for a basic translation for the creation story for additional context or insight.

@PeterTaviawkNews

3 ай бұрын

Bingo

He would shit himself if he seen all the Islam left wing cucks and stupidity these days.

@Rannos22

7 жыл бұрын

stevie price shocking how quickly everything fell apart once we lost George Carlin, Hitchens and others like them.

I wish I could hear him shred The Trump administration... just one 5 minute stream of consciousness tirade.. I'm so fkng tired of the placated western media..

Such a brilliant man, shortened his life by sucking down those burning chemicals.. what a waste.