what an absolute bellend this guy is and i fkn love him
@HughMorristheJoker2 жыл бұрын
The map is the territory
@komalp22403 жыл бұрын
solaris of Tarkovsky is a 1972 film
@livinghere19723 жыл бұрын
Self will talk shit about anything now.
@thefredgefredgerino50613 жыл бұрын
I have no idea what he's talking about, but I like it.
@stephensharp30335 ай бұрын
Brilliant.
@arthurfilemon60383 жыл бұрын
Interesting. In my ignorance I've never heard of Mr. Self. I found him in a debate with Zizek. His voice, tone and demeanor is very different in the debate, he sounds very presumptuos, sarcastic and not very humble. I found it distasteful and thought he was like that always. Well, here he sounds like a professional and intelectual adult and not a jealous child.
@zetaconvex19873 жыл бұрын
Better not show him a Michael Bay film, then. Those Transformers films, amiright? What a waste of CGI, they might just as well flash lights in our face.
@lesliecunliffe44503 жыл бұрын
Will Self has few insights. he confuses striking an attitude with genuine criticism; however, on the subject of the death of film, he is spot on. Why? That is because western culture is exhausted, as George Steiner's book Grammars of Creation brilliantly demonstrates.
@WORLDNEWREALITY3 жыл бұрын
She confuses the truth about what the fundamental universal values are and adopts the narrative of powerful imperialistic materialistic corrupt world order that is as far away from fundemental universal values as can be, but uses propaganda and dominance to force their views and make them as if they are the absolute righteousness thus contradicting their own claims. She is the soft subtle voice of evil. Where are women rights in her writings about the rapped and killed women in wars propogated by her supporters and financiers? Where are human rights in her writings about human trafficing and sex slave trade by the mafia who also runs the publishing houses that sells her books. I challeng her to write about the truth and be able to sell her books without the known publishing houses who dictate her narative and her success.
@laurencegoldman46393 жыл бұрын
Will Self is the modern self-appointed Bernard Berenson. An arrogant snob-but in a good way. At least he’s not down to forcing his students to cover their eyes in passing the Rubenses on their way to the Raphaels. I must say “The death of film” or anything else is only imagined. Doesn’t mean a thing. Great art continues to emerge despite anything Will Self says. Has anyone seen Stan Brakhage films recently? It’s like saying painting’s over. Then you see a late Cezanne Bathers and the body immediately relaxes-aaahhh. Doesn’t need to be figured out.Or Ozu. Or Kon Ichikawa-Alone Across the Pacific. Good is good. Even some Will Self sentences. Smug or humble, sophisticated or simple, don’t mean a thing.
@Spectrescup3 жыл бұрын
Will Self is at his best when he's funny, and at his worst when he's serious.
@sabineschwiese-liebl1283 жыл бұрын
She is amazing!I love every word of her!!!
@michealjohn71923 жыл бұрын
what did he say about jews in front of the tv ?
@nancymohass48914 жыл бұрын
Names of totalitarians must include Iran gov. and it’s wild dictators .
@muhammadayubkhan28594 жыл бұрын
Dear Shafak I have been listening and understanding to you in different videos with my deep inspiration as smart Motivational speaker and has been trying to understand your Perspectives in a diverse ways by your deep intellectual and political thoughts as writer . You have got a smart diversity in your thoughts and vision IN YOUR DEEP UNDERSTANDING ...you are a well educated intellectual woman in your political subjects understanding and HUMAN Rights . since how long you have been in teaching profession in your career .?? I would like to appreciate you as a political commentator BY YOUR DEEP POLITICAL ANALYTICAL APPROACH and an inspirational public speaker. in a very diverse ways with critical thinking approach and understanding the others . I would like to know Are you a Human RIGHTS ACTIVIST OR JUST A WRITER IN YOURS smart political THOUGHTS EXPRESSIONS ?? Thank You . Ayub Khan
@tomfreemanorourke15194 жыл бұрын
But does he still watch 'old films'?....For the best part of the last 25 years or more, I haven't viewed anything beyond the speed of Lost In Translation.......And in the film 'A Hundred-Year-Old Man Climbed Out of His Bedroom Window and Went Missing'......there is no CGI or special effects only excellent editing at its most pleasing...and in my many years of existence, experience and observation, learning and understanding and a most well-healed opinion ...the short Brechtian setups and a comedic conduit that doesn't break at all and above all is re-watchable is an uplifting piece of pure cinema storytelling that lasts..... Love always....
@morningstar92334 жыл бұрын
Yes, but if the lectern was better positioned those unsightly electric cables could have been concealed in its housing.
@GreatWaterCircus4 жыл бұрын
to trick the eye you require 44 frame per second ... that is why the projector flashes the image twice and 60 Htz is used etc... .. and to quote "The human eye can physiologically detect up to 1000 frames per second. The trick is can it detect the difference when run in sequence .... " otherwise interesting stuff
@DellDuckfan3134 жыл бұрын
A lightyear is a unit of distance, not time. C'mon Will, this is entry-level.
@patrickmccormack43184 жыл бұрын
Coronacation 2020 has me thinking of a career in writing. I now say to myself, "Not so fast McFly." Oh...what to do when our lives travel at the speed of light? We buy books and more books, but have only time to read the covers. Where is adventure, where is romance? We have only drama of violence...and that becomes horrifically boring. Careful as we will, careful as we go.
@andreykapustin6324 жыл бұрын
What is the part of Solaris’ title sequence which he is referring?
@Uncompletedrecall3 жыл бұрын
The long shot of weeds in a moving river. It is hypnotic and beautiful imo.
@user-xc8pv4ip2f4 жыл бұрын
He behaves like drug addict. Disgusting.
@andrewmartin64454 жыл бұрын
What an insufferably pretentious creep this man is. He is constantly trying to impress an audience with the use of obscure long words and 'facts' that turn out to be demonstrably incorrect, as lots of comments here have pointed out. He is like a slightly more sophisticated version of Russell Brand, a middle-aged rebellious adolescent trying desperately hard to impress.
@Amalgafiend4 жыл бұрын
The polish linguist he is talking about is Korzybski, not korzbyski. Name-dropper. I bet he's never read a word of that promiscuous linguist. Probably only Robert Anton Wilson ever read it to completion.
@Spectrescup3 жыл бұрын
Burroughs was a huge fan of Korzybski, too. Still, nice to see Robert Anton Wilson get a namedrop on here.
@newforestpixie52974 жыл бұрын
Will has used words I’ve never heard in 35 years of BBC Radio 4., “ The Singularity “ is a tune by KillingJoke - Plus about 30 yers back , thrashmetal music combo ‘ Anthrax ‘ had a number called “ kill the superheroes “ - at 20 I thought that rather rebellious and now it sounds like a jolly good idea..Thankyou Will & all concerned with this production.
@newforestpixie52974 жыл бұрын
Ten years ago I sat with my 16 yr old son at The Odeon in Bournemouth, watching James Bond get caught in North Korea whilst doing something I’d never seen him achieve before .- he looked like Jesus Christ Superstar . -. Unfortunately itt soon became business as usual as another 30 minutes or years of continuous Explosions gave me the excuse to never watch such nonsense again. I could never call myself intellectual but Action Movies make me feel smarter by the second 🏴😇😁love from wessexshire PS without bbc R4 I’d never heard of this guy so they aren’t all bad.
@newforestpixie52974 жыл бұрын
Spongecake Squareshoes last christmas I sat with family through “ the Martian “ - rooting for our hero but surely that’s Sci - Fi ! And a Japanese “ manga “ animated tale of a little girl living next to the sea complete with underwater Wizard ( looking like a member of Hawkwind ) was brilliant too - but that was “ manga “ - I’ll warn you of any headache material I stray too near 😁regards from the elephants graveyard.
@abooswalehmosafeer1734 жыл бұрын
Bravo Elif.i really connected with this message. The world is collapsing. Expression in all its forms must triumph ... Then again...anyway ..
@abooswalehmosafeer1734 жыл бұрын
I can listen and listen to this lady until the end of Time. She is so inspiring. Routine becomes extraordinary. Routine blends into Narrative as the Raconteur takes one into the beyond ...
@sebek22424 жыл бұрын
This guy is fake as hell. Just like his name. Old school fart that complains about everything new and glorifies the old.
@maureencalder99114 жыл бұрын
Stay forever brave Elif Shafak
@csrathman4 жыл бұрын
I love every utterance about this!!
@gmorren4 жыл бұрын
Nostalghia
@RSEFX5 жыл бұрын
Self is self on self.
@chomskysarmy39655 жыл бұрын
Onyly three minutes in and I like Will Self, but this is bullshit. He seems to accept a reality defined by propogandists.He has set me up, hopefully..
@AlexthunderGnum5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Will for reminding me of the methods of jumping out of reality. The film used to be one of these methods, but it soon became part of reality from which it is now harder to escape. You are right - fiction is also dead, just as much as film, and so is literature... What is next?
@Gozzillacia5 жыл бұрын
It's a good thing Self's books are shite or his opinions might be taken seriously.
@lanceaugust5 жыл бұрын
It is incomprehensible how Will Self could be so bothered by a 20 billion pound expenditure for a British naval base in Bahrain. Projecting naval power of a civilized nation into a lawless violent region is a stabilizing, humanizing investment.
@chrisbaker39005 жыл бұрын
For someone who's favourite film is 'Solaris', he seems to be unaware of modern filmmakers working primarily with sustained shots - Bela Tarr and Nuri Bilge Ceylan spring to mind.
@yanikkunitsin14663 жыл бұрын
Agree with previous poster. Only for novelity or niche genres (read "auteur"). And it's so unusual for modern movie-goer (ok, movie-renter) that they even had to come up with such stupid term as "slow movies". God forbid them seeing Tarkovsky, Antonioni or even Bahrani. Well, at least you would need this contraptions for eyes from Clockwork Orange
@marcomartinez86082 жыл бұрын
Modern or contemporary filmmakers? Tarkovsky come be considered modern. If you meant contemporary, Bela Tarr could hardly be considered that, as well. If anything, he's a contemporary of Tarkovsky.
@zetetick3953 ай бұрын
C'mon now fella, It's a movie he fell in love with as a kid / young man, I think we ALL choose the same way with our own personal preferences, rather than the best of contemporary examples. It's not like newer stuff super-annuates his choice, does it. (And what with Blu-Ray etc we can all enjoy these movies visually like never before, outside of the cinema)
@ManfromuncoolBlogspotstars5 жыл бұрын
Would have been better if he'd done a cover of the old Rod Stewart Song, "Do You Think I 'm Skeksi?" as an outro.
@80thiconoclast5 жыл бұрын
All hail the god of pretension.
@TheGrafixbox5 жыл бұрын
Utterly one sides bollocks! He's just looking at the most negative sides of film and capitalising on that! I've seen loads or really incredible films over the last few years. It's about art and entertainment, and there are many films which are exactly that! Not all films are Marvel blockbusters FFS. Seriously who is buying this guys books??? What the he'll has a beheading video got to do with not wanting to watch any other artistic film again???
@Massivecarcrash5 жыл бұрын
What Will Self is referencing here is 22-24 frames per second is the lower limit allowed for us to percieve it as constant motion, not a collage of still images flashing before our eyes. We dont see in 24 frames per second, we dont percieve things visually in frames at all. We can observe an image in a 200th of a second, that's 200 frames per second. They did this test in the airforce where pilots were asked to not only identify if there was an image, but also managed to identify the object (in this case, fighter jet types and builds) within 160th of a second. There is no "upper limit" to how we percieve visual information. We percieve time slower when adrenaline pumps through our veins as anyone who has been in a car accident or taken a nose dive off the top step of a staircase can testify. That "oh shit this is it, I am going to die, this will hurt so much" momment. A technicality, but I am so tired of hearing it repeated.
@Massivecarcrash4 жыл бұрын
@@Dyotar0 I am member of the "I dont give a shit, I own all kinds of platforms because I have a fucking job".
@trombone73 жыл бұрын
I thought the same thing. 16 fps for flashing image to appear constantly on. 24 for motion on that screen to appear smooth. ------------------ There is a limit to what we, *consciously* see in that some clinical psychology experiments flash images faster than the subject is aware of. But even then they unconsciously see it. Because tests will reveal they were influenced by it. But they will not report seeing it even if asked.
@zetetick3953 ай бұрын
Ahhh, the KZread comment section : Natural habitat for the exercising of bugbears! .....Little blighters need an airing, or they can stink up your life otherwise. 🐻_👍🏾
@joshscannell99105 жыл бұрын
we need more robots
@bradmodd78565 жыл бұрын
when we are old we are filled with wonder, then when we get old we are filled with whatever this is called, tergiservation perhaps
@mechabits1975 жыл бұрын
I saw the beheading video...one of them, didnt want to but it was the full thing. If you want to see the wagon wheel moving in the right direction...change the shutter speed, or frame rate, want the Solaris look get some Lomo Anamorphic lenses, russian glass formulations difficult to reproduce.
@rossleeson86265 жыл бұрын
Can't wait until some kid makes a sick arse indie and just posts it online for it to become a hit. Film isn't dying there are a million kids who are picking up cameras aged 11 and going out trying to copy Casey Neistat. It's the democratisation of technology, tools, learning. There will be a New Wave soon we need one. The big studios are resembling those in the 50's now, but I think where as before the New Wave came from film school kids and critics, the new wave will be video makers who have learnt the technical aspects by doing and repeating.
@dm68015 жыл бұрын
So if I read some Baudrillard and inflame my ego, can I too get paid as much as this guy?
@jeffjuhre14945 жыл бұрын
Not to pile on the criticism, but it would be light years from here, not light years from now. A light year is a unit of distance not time. I did find moments of this talk insightful.
@joeakajoe15 жыл бұрын
I fucking love Will Self. I must try reading one of his books one day
@nikharrith96252 жыл бұрын
I hope you had read one now, btw Will Self is a pure gold im glad i had discover him
@stephensharp30334 ай бұрын
His story about a rock of crack is from the perspective of a black man and uses the N word.
Пікірлер
Toucan nosed twat
Bravo
what an absolute bellend this guy is and i fkn love him
The map is the territory
solaris of Tarkovsky is a 1972 film
Self will talk shit about anything now.
I have no idea what he's talking about, but I like it.
Brilliant.
Interesting. In my ignorance I've never heard of Mr. Self. I found him in a debate with Zizek. His voice, tone and demeanor is very different in the debate, he sounds very presumptuos, sarcastic and not very humble. I found it distasteful and thought he was like that always. Well, here he sounds like a professional and intelectual adult and not a jealous child.
Better not show him a Michael Bay film, then. Those Transformers films, amiright? What a waste of CGI, they might just as well flash lights in our face.
Will Self has few insights. he confuses striking an attitude with genuine criticism; however, on the subject of the death of film, he is spot on. Why? That is because western culture is exhausted, as George Steiner's book Grammars of Creation brilliantly demonstrates.
She confuses the truth about what the fundamental universal values are and adopts the narrative of powerful imperialistic materialistic corrupt world order that is as far away from fundemental universal values as can be, but uses propaganda and dominance to force their views and make them as if they are the absolute righteousness thus contradicting their own claims. She is the soft subtle voice of evil. Where are women rights in her writings about the rapped and killed women in wars propogated by her supporters and financiers? Where are human rights in her writings about human trafficing and sex slave trade by the mafia who also runs the publishing houses that sells her books. I challeng her to write about the truth and be able to sell her books without the known publishing houses who dictate her narative and her success.
Will Self is the modern self-appointed Bernard Berenson. An arrogant snob-but in a good way. At least he’s not down to forcing his students to cover their eyes in passing the Rubenses on their way to the Raphaels. I must say “The death of film” or anything else is only imagined. Doesn’t mean a thing. Great art continues to emerge despite anything Will Self says. Has anyone seen Stan Brakhage films recently? It’s like saying painting’s over. Then you see a late Cezanne Bathers and the body immediately relaxes-aaahhh. Doesn’t need to be figured out.Or Ozu. Or Kon Ichikawa-Alone Across the Pacific. Good is good. Even some Will Self sentences. Smug or humble, sophisticated or simple, don’t mean a thing.
Will Self is at his best when he's funny, and at his worst when he's serious.
She is amazing!I love every word of her!!!
what did he say about jews in front of the tv ?
Names of totalitarians must include Iran gov. and it’s wild dictators .
Dear Shafak I have been listening and understanding to you in different videos with my deep inspiration as smart Motivational speaker and has been trying to understand your Perspectives in a diverse ways by your deep intellectual and political thoughts as writer . You have got a smart diversity in your thoughts and vision IN YOUR DEEP UNDERSTANDING ...you are a well educated intellectual woman in your political subjects understanding and HUMAN Rights . since how long you have been in teaching profession in your career .?? I would like to appreciate you as a political commentator BY YOUR DEEP POLITICAL ANALYTICAL APPROACH and an inspirational public speaker. in a very diverse ways with critical thinking approach and understanding the others . I would like to know Are you a Human RIGHTS ACTIVIST OR JUST A WRITER IN YOURS smart political THOUGHTS EXPRESSIONS ?? Thank You . Ayub Khan
But does he still watch 'old films'?....For the best part of the last 25 years or more, I haven't viewed anything beyond the speed of Lost In Translation.......And in the film 'A Hundred-Year-Old Man Climbed Out of His Bedroom Window and Went Missing'......there is no CGI or special effects only excellent editing at its most pleasing...and in my many years of existence, experience and observation, learning and understanding and a most well-healed opinion ...the short Brechtian setups and a comedic conduit that doesn't break at all and above all is re-watchable is an uplifting piece of pure cinema storytelling that lasts..... Love always....
Yes, but if the lectern was better positioned those unsightly electric cables could have been concealed in its housing.
to trick the eye you require 44 frame per second ... that is why the projector flashes the image twice and 60 Htz is used etc... .. and to quote "The human eye can physiologically detect up to 1000 frames per second. The trick is can it detect the difference when run in sequence .... " otherwise interesting stuff
A lightyear is a unit of distance, not time. C'mon Will, this is entry-level.
Coronacation 2020 has me thinking of a career in writing. I now say to myself, "Not so fast McFly." Oh...what to do when our lives travel at the speed of light? We buy books and more books, but have only time to read the covers. Where is adventure, where is romance? We have only drama of violence...and that becomes horrifically boring. Careful as we will, careful as we go.
What is the part of Solaris’ title sequence which he is referring?
The long shot of weeds in a moving river. It is hypnotic and beautiful imo.
He behaves like drug addict. Disgusting.
What an insufferably pretentious creep this man is. He is constantly trying to impress an audience with the use of obscure long words and 'facts' that turn out to be demonstrably incorrect, as lots of comments here have pointed out. He is like a slightly more sophisticated version of Russell Brand, a middle-aged rebellious adolescent trying desperately hard to impress.
The polish linguist he is talking about is Korzybski, not korzbyski. Name-dropper. I bet he's never read a word of that promiscuous linguist. Probably only Robert Anton Wilson ever read it to completion.
Burroughs was a huge fan of Korzybski, too. Still, nice to see Robert Anton Wilson get a namedrop on here.
Will has used words I’ve never heard in 35 years of BBC Radio 4., “ The Singularity “ is a tune by KillingJoke - Plus about 30 yers back , thrashmetal music combo ‘ Anthrax ‘ had a number called “ kill the superheroes “ - at 20 I thought that rather rebellious and now it sounds like a jolly good idea..Thankyou Will & all concerned with this production.
Ten years ago I sat with my 16 yr old son at The Odeon in Bournemouth, watching James Bond get caught in North Korea whilst doing something I’d never seen him achieve before .- he looked like Jesus Christ Superstar . -. Unfortunately itt soon became business as usual as another 30 minutes or years of continuous Explosions gave me the excuse to never watch such nonsense again. I could never call myself intellectual but Action Movies make me feel smarter by the second 🏴😇😁love from wessexshire PS without bbc R4 I’d never heard of this guy so they aren’t all bad.
Spongecake Squareshoes last christmas I sat with family through “ the Martian “ - rooting for our hero but surely that’s Sci - Fi ! And a Japanese “ manga “ animated tale of a little girl living next to the sea complete with underwater Wizard ( looking like a member of Hawkwind ) was brilliant too - but that was “ manga “ - I’ll warn you of any headache material I stray too near 😁regards from the elephants graveyard.
Bravo Elif.i really connected with this message. The world is collapsing. Expression in all its forms must triumph ... Then again...anyway ..
I can listen and listen to this lady until the end of Time. She is so inspiring. Routine becomes extraordinary. Routine blends into Narrative as the Raconteur takes one into the beyond ...
This guy is fake as hell. Just like his name. Old school fart that complains about everything new and glorifies the old.
Stay forever brave Elif Shafak
I love every utterance about this!!
Nostalghia
Self is self on self.
Onyly three minutes in and I like Will Self, but this is bullshit. He seems to accept a reality defined by propogandists.He has set me up, hopefully..
Thank you Will for reminding me of the methods of jumping out of reality. The film used to be one of these methods, but it soon became part of reality from which it is now harder to escape. You are right - fiction is also dead, just as much as film, and so is literature... What is next?
It's a good thing Self's books are shite or his opinions might be taken seriously.
It is incomprehensible how Will Self could be so bothered by a 20 billion pound expenditure for a British naval base in Bahrain. Projecting naval power of a civilized nation into a lawless violent region is a stabilizing, humanizing investment.
For someone who's favourite film is 'Solaris', he seems to be unaware of modern filmmakers working primarily with sustained shots - Bela Tarr and Nuri Bilge Ceylan spring to mind.
Agree with previous poster. Only for novelity or niche genres (read "auteur"). And it's so unusual for modern movie-goer (ok, movie-renter) that they even had to come up with such stupid term as "slow movies". God forbid them seeing Tarkovsky, Antonioni or even Bahrani. Well, at least you would need this contraptions for eyes from Clockwork Orange
Modern or contemporary filmmakers? Tarkovsky come be considered modern. If you meant contemporary, Bela Tarr could hardly be considered that, as well. If anything, he's a contemporary of Tarkovsky.
C'mon now fella, It's a movie he fell in love with as a kid / young man, I think we ALL choose the same way with our own personal preferences, rather than the best of contemporary examples. It's not like newer stuff super-annuates his choice, does it. (And what with Blu-Ray etc we can all enjoy these movies visually like never before, outside of the cinema)
Would have been better if he'd done a cover of the old Rod Stewart Song, "Do You Think I 'm Skeksi?" as an outro.
All hail the god of pretension.
Utterly one sides bollocks! He's just looking at the most negative sides of film and capitalising on that! I've seen loads or really incredible films over the last few years. It's about art and entertainment, and there are many films which are exactly that! Not all films are Marvel blockbusters FFS. Seriously who is buying this guys books??? What the he'll has a beheading video got to do with not wanting to watch any other artistic film again???
What Will Self is referencing here is 22-24 frames per second is the lower limit allowed for us to percieve it as constant motion, not a collage of still images flashing before our eyes. We dont see in 24 frames per second, we dont percieve things visually in frames at all. We can observe an image in a 200th of a second, that's 200 frames per second. They did this test in the airforce where pilots were asked to not only identify if there was an image, but also managed to identify the object (in this case, fighter jet types and builds) within 160th of a second. There is no "upper limit" to how we percieve visual information. We percieve time slower when adrenaline pumps through our veins as anyone who has been in a car accident or taken a nose dive off the top step of a staircase can testify. That "oh shit this is it, I am going to die, this will hurt so much" momment. A technicality, but I am so tired of hearing it repeated.
@@Dyotar0 I am member of the "I dont give a shit, I own all kinds of platforms because I have a fucking job".
I thought the same thing. 16 fps for flashing image to appear constantly on. 24 for motion on that screen to appear smooth. ------------------ There is a limit to what we, *consciously* see in that some clinical psychology experiments flash images faster than the subject is aware of. But even then they unconsciously see it. Because tests will reveal they were influenced by it. But they will not report seeing it even if asked.
Ahhh, the KZread comment section : Natural habitat for the exercising of bugbears! .....Little blighters need an airing, or they can stink up your life otherwise. 🐻_👍🏾
we need more robots
when we are old we are filled with wonder, then when we get old we are filled with whatever this is called, tergiservation perhaps
I saw the beheading video...one of them, didnt want to but it was the full thing. If you want to see the wagon wheel moving in the right direction...change the shutter speed, or frame rate, want the Solaris look get some Lomo Anamorphic lenses, russian glass formulations difficult to reproduce.
Can't wait until some kid makes a sick arse indie and just posts it online for it to become a hit. Film isn't dying there are a million kids who are picking up cameras aged 11 and going out trying to copy Casey Neistat. It's the democratisation of technology, tools, learning. There will be a New Wave soon we need one. The big studios are resembling those in the 50's now, but I think where as before the New Wave came from film school kids and critics, the new wave will be video makers who have learnt the technical aspects by doing and repeating.
So if I read some Baudrillard and inflame my ego, can I too get paid as much as this guy?
Not to pile on the criticism, but it would be light years from here, not light years from now. A light year is a unit of distance not time. I did find moments of this talk insightful.
I fucking love Will Self. I must try reading one of his books one day
I hope you had read one now, btw Will Self is a pure gold im glad i had discover him
His story about a rock of crack is from the perspective of a black man and uses the N word.