The USA has only always gained greatly by setting up a world in which others fail. The faster the rest of the world realizes this, the better. *Washington DC power mongers employ the divide and rule technique of power.* In the past, and as one of the Big Three at Versailles, they covertly set up Europe for failure, masked behind overt expressions of "fighting for freedom and democracy." In reality, Versailles was a covert implementation of the divide and rule technique. _Europe was divided, with a ruling._ This strategy is often misunderstood, in narratives composed mostly of "being friends" or "being rivals/enemies", even though it only means that one can gain greatly if others are divided and fail. It _is_ as simple as that. "Friends" or "enemies" play no role: if others fail, the own systems gain. After Europe failed, the final domino stone Washington DC actively toppled was the British Empire. After two world wars, with countless emerging struggles in the colonies, so by 1945 the already seriously weakened and overextended Great Britain was an easy pushover... When Europe failed, as all states fought to mutual exhaustion, who gained most? From "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire." -- Michael Hudson, 2nd edition 2003 "What actually occurred was that Britain and other countries became hopelessly indebted to the United States once again (edit: during World War 2) ... “We have profited by our past mistakes,” announced Roosevelt in a speech delivered on September 3, 1942. “This time we shall know how to make full use of victory.” This time the U.S. Government would conquer its allies in a more enlightened manner, by demanding economic concessions of a legal and political nature instead of futilely seeking repayment of its wartime loans (of World War 1). The new postwar strategy sought and secured foreign markets for U.S. exports, and new fields for American investment capital in Europe’s raw materials producing colonial areas. Despite Roosevelt’s assurances to the contrary, Britain was compelled, under the Lend-Lease agreements and the terms of the first great U.S. postwar loan to Britain, to relinquish Empire Preference and to open all its markets to U.S. competition, at a time when Britain desperately needed these markets as a means by which to fund its sterling debt. Most important of all, Britain was forced to unblock its sterling and foreign-exchange balances built up by its colonies and other Sterling Area countries during the wartime years. Instead of the Allied Powers as a whole bearing the costs of these wartime credits to British Empire countries, they would be borne by Britain itself. Equally important, they would not be used as “blocked” balances that could be used only to buy British or other Sterling Area exports, but would be freed to purchase exports from any nation. Under postwar conditions this meant that they would be used in large part to purchase U.S. exports. (page 115/116) By relinquishing its right to block these balances, Britain gave up its option, while enabling the United States to make full use of its gold stock as the basis for postwar lending to purchased generalized (primarily U.S.) exports. At a stroke, Britain’s economic power was broken. What Germany as foe had been unable to accomplish in two wars against Britain, the United States accomplished with ease as its ally.(Page 117) Furthermore, under the terms on which it joined the International Monetary Fund, Britain could not devalue the pound sterling so as to dissipate the foreign-exchange value of these balances. Its liability thus was maximized - and so was America’s gain from the pool of liquidity that these balances now represented." (end of) *Only ONE attribute decides whether a system is THE DIVIDER, or becomes a part of "the divided": POWER.* After 1945 London was turned from its role of "divider of the world" into the role of "one of the divided" (the role of FAVORITE junior partner, the "peaceful handover of power" and related "special relationship"-narrative. "Special"-relationship in a power balance. These Washington DC power mongers must be rotfl...) Whatever... If your state or nation is "not at the table," you are "lunch" (Anthony Blinken). The dividers telling everybody in no uncertain terms, that their interests and even their lives don't count. *There is no doubt that Washington DC is attempting to repeat this "success" (pov) in the rising powers of Asia. The strategy can be observed to be implemented in the same way as was set up post-1900 in Europe, but in Europe the "buck catchers" (John Mearsheimer theory) were Great Britain and France. Today, it is India being used in the same role as France was 100 years ago. In case of a wider war in Asia, as India is set up against China, qui bono if _all_ lose?* The technique Washington DC employed up to the year 2000, is an almost exact repeat of the technique they used to overpower Europe around the year 1900: DIVIDE AND RULE. Divide and rule *creates* all that follows in its wake: 1) The terrorist. 2) The state of terror. 3) The terror state.
@missvegasableАй бұрын
Thank you for this lovely interview! Such a treat to hear my favorite author speak. I adore her written words. Ms. Johnson, perish the thought that your works could ever be less than treasured.
@DenH-hq4ddАй бұрын
It's strange how much effort the British media is putting into creating a fake hate between Croats and Serbs. Why are the British so afraid of unity between Croats and Serbs? They seem to be desperately searching for any small, unimportant, or nonexistent issues that can be used to perpetuate hate between the two groups. In every country, there are typically two main football clubs in rivalry - for example, Manchester United and Arsenal in the UK, or Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain. In Yugoslavia, it was Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade, and now in Croatia it is Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split. But the difference are that bloody clashes between fans of Manchester and Arsenal, Barcelona and Madrid are a daily occurrence. This trend makes it hard to keep a track on every incident. This explains why is much easier to focus on one incident, like the Zvonimir Boban case in 1990 to perpetuate the belief that Croats and Serbs are sworn enemies who cannot coexist peacefully. This incident is being blown out of proportion by the media in order to fuel hate between the two groups. As a summary, in this video Zvonimir Boban made it clear that he doesnt and he never had anything against the serbs or the other yugoslav nations. Just because he wanted independent croatia, that doesnt mean that he is a hater, or that he hates the other yugoslav nations. He talked about the freedom of speech in his former communist country, and not about the hate to the people of the other nationalities in Yugoslavia.
@lindamiller2648Ай бұрын
Quite interesting. Always pleasant to hear Proust talk. If only the interviewer would stop fiddling with her face!
@sarahnichols4439Ай бұрын
Have just started listening to the audio. Thank you! What others are you considering? The Paris opera house perhaps?
@kacie5012 ай бұрын
We learned so much from Alice Kaplan, my daughter did a living wax museum and is very proud to have represented her works.
@adaashish28893 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this!!!
@b.15653 ай бұрын
Ayelet Waldman ❤
@sergioalves52784 ай бұрын
Obrigado, Caroline, aqui do Brasil. Sei que vou parecer presunçoso, mas " descobri" Proust aos 30 anos, estou com 61 e já li e reli a série 6 vezes, com descobertas e com mais prazer a cada releitura. Penso que sou proustmaníaco( sei que não existe claro, este termo). Proust é um mundo.
@kerrydennison79475 ай бұрын
Has anyone ever considered a possibility that Charles de Gaulle had him killed so he would not be someone to oppose him coming to power up on liberation of France? You notice how quickly to go had the resistance Marquis disarmed at the end of the war, it is much easier to make a power grap if you are doing it in an unarmed country,
@sulevisydanmaa99816 ай бұрын
KRISTEVA s book on Pr : Time And Sense - care to comment ? 2) Germaine BREE s book on Pr 3) CUKOR s film RICH AND FAMOUS where the Jacqueline Bissett character says sth concerning Pr to the Candice Bergen character, but I can t recall exactly what. C a n s b y fill us in on those ? O er
@sulevisydanmaa99816 ай бұрын
NDE - RESEARCH & its achievements toward Proust s "findings" and their insights in relation to I Ching... =what do we know about anything, and can we know more while staying on this side of the Ignorance ... (?). My dissertation that will NEVUHHHH be ..
@yolandasilverio12057 ай бұрын
I am about to start reading In Search of Lost Time. I have all 7 volumes and will journal my reading as I go along.
@ianjamesparker23157 ай бұрын
Caroline Weber's energetic love of Proust is such a joy to witness. Presently reading 'Proust's Duchess' by Caroline Weber, such a captivating read.
@ericchristen26238 ай бұрын
Americans are so stuck into their stupid universities. So little individuality...
@dinkster17298 ай бұрын
One of the more interesting theories about why General DeGaulle shouted, "Vive le Québec! Vive le Québec libre" from the high balcony on Montréal's City Hall" in 1967 when Canadians were joyfully celebrating Canada's Centennial is that he was still nursing a grudge because the Canadian government under William Lyon Mackenzie King (a Liberal) did not recognize DeGaulle's Free French government until 1943 because it didn't want to tick off the Québecois who were under the sway of the far right Roman Catholic church and the Quebec Duplessis government at the time. The Revolution Tranquille in Quebec hadn't happened yet in the 1940s and is even said to have been inspired by the presence of Free French agents and sympathizers in Montreal who couldn't believe how under the thumb of the Roman Catholic church Quebec was. This interview provides me with food for thought. History is a very complicated business, isn't it?
@Ruimte88 ай бұрын
Why are they shouting all the time?
@arsnovaarsnova8 ай бұрын
Talking slower will ennoble you, will show that you are really one and behind each word, each phrase, each concept and not letting your mind and your ego push an push words way faster than you would want, beauty nobility clarity and ability to convince others will only happen when there is a slowing down, a humility to know that `simple` is very difficult, as far as Proust, one comment below I think nails it, Proust goes around in circles,eternally so, enjoying floating from thought to thought and from the ability (or disability) to render his thoughts clear and in so doing stronger, and unable to enhance drama, reading it is a good training intellectually, but there is not much in it, perhaps his internal disorder did not allow him to achieve real literary beauty and strength.
@user-btmbangalore9 ай бұрын
WW2/WW1 was result of denying sovereignty of a few European nations, Germany, Hungary, Austria, felt they were being dictated on internal matters. How do you decide who is the other? Old views against new truth. A new confidence or new circumstance to reject an old equation. World can never remain the same, a new power is born every century.
@kenjohnson63269 ай бұрын
I'd like to hear what that first husband of hers has to say about getting to really know people. I will say my first impression is of a very entertaining introduction to Proust.
@jimmartin18039 ай бұрын
Thank you for this. Do you have anything on James Joyce and the novel Ulysse?
@sulevisydanmaa99816 ай бұрын
@jimmartin1803 DO YA have anything on Woolf s BETWEEN THE ACTS ? (and not just THE WAVES ...).
@Thomas-fu8vp10 ай бұрын
One does not simply read Proust, one studies and passionately so, or otherwise it is futile.
@ilonabaier604210 ай бұрын
very helpful per se but I found the discussion about having reading in French superfluous. Of course if one can read the given language reading it in the original is more than a no-brainer. Imagine forgoing reading things in only the language you can speak. How ridiculous is that? For the majority of the native English speakers it rules out all of the Greek classics, all of renown religious and many philosophical writings. I need not expand.
@garry_b10 ай бұрын
Always great to hear - or read - Margaret McMillan.
@Antoniosamaran10 ай бұрын
he was a good player, but he is a great nationalist, almost a fascist, and everyone knows that in the former Yugoslavia. he will never tell the truth that the Serbs and Belgrade saved him when he attacked a policeman in Zagreb, otherwise he would have ended up in court and in prison.
@icewaterslim726011 ай бұрын
Soviet Air Groups were ahead of rge AVG in support of the Nationalists from the battle of Shanghai in 1937 until the summer of 1941. Chennault wasn't even allowed to recruit on US military bases until Indochina was occupied by the Japanese. Until then it was Japan that we supported with the overwhelming majority of their oil needs even through and after the USS Panay attack and sinking.. I saw "The 800". with English soundtrack. It was kind of like the Alamo but with summary executions and cursing. Pretty good movie actually.
@ellenpaasch474311 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this interview
@smalltown222311 ай бұрын
I’ve never been a fan of Brussel Prousts, even though they’re very popular with a Roast Dickens dinner.
@Kevinsouth11 ай бұрын
"I feel like I didn't understand the whole thing but wanted to cry anyway." (Paraphrasing the host.) You have summed up all of Proust to so many!
@melissahouse1296 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved this. So look fwd to reading PDuchess when ive completed In Search.. You were both wonderful to listen to thank you!
@timothymitchell8310 Жыл бұрын
Nice video! I’m living in Japan and they have wonderful French breads. I have not knowingly had any other French style breads. In the past, when I’ve used American flours, I did not wow over the taste and texture but, I loved the smell. Is it possible to get French tasting bread using American flours?
@McIntyreBible Жыл бұрын
M.MacMillan knows a great deal about WWI and the consequences that followed!
@Prudence01 Жыл бұрын
Scream much?
@user-jb4oh8jo2n Жыл бұрын
I am currently creating an online French literature course to be marketed and sold by my company, LinguaTute. This would be an 8-week long course consisting of one live class (1.5hrs) every week, which will be taught by a PhD French literature student at Oxford University. I'd really love to hear people's opinions on what should be included in this French literature course - in return I can offer you a 10% discount on the course (which we will begin delivering around the end of May/beginning of April - specific date is still to be decided). If you would like to have a chat with me and help to shape the future of this course, please respond to this comment. Thank you!!
@joeoconnor5400 Жыл бұрын
Interesting programme, but Macmillan does not declare she is related to Lloyd George. To the Irish he was crafty, duplicitous and in the words of one historian spoke out of both sides of his mouth. His meddling in the Greek-Turkish conflict during 1922-23 led to the massacre at Smyrna. There was still conflict in Europe and the Middle East into the early 1920's.
@Longleyta Жыл бұрын
If you've never seen it, try to find a video of the Monty Python game show spoof of the "All England Summarize Proust" competition. Classic!
@CHUCKRYALS1234 Жыл бұрын
Nice presentation. I just started vol 4. I learned a lot. Thanks.
@willemvanlent6955 Жыл бұрын
WOUW, THE SOE DID ALSO BETRAY ABOUT 200 DUTCH RESISTANCE FIGHTERS TOO!!! JUST TO KEEP UP A SCAM GAME THEY PLAYED AGAINST GERMAN INTELLIGENCE!!! THEY KEPT ON PARACHUTING THOSE AGENTS INTO THE NETHERLANDS, WHILE THEY KNEW, THE GERMANS WERE WAITING FOR THEM!!!
@jabbalechat79105 ай бұрын
Please stop shouting and better inform yourself on this subject...
@MrDavewashington Жыл бұрын
Love her writing so much. Love listening/watching her interviews. Looking forward to her next novel.
@emmanuelboudot9631 Жыл бұрын
During the war France was occupied by the nazis (after 100000 casulties in 1940); there was no possibility to oppose efficiently when you have the nazis in front of you, in France just like everywhere in occupied Europe and the german didn't impose to sign the armistice at the same place than the 1918 capitulation as a mark of respect for France ..... Antisemitism in France today has nothing to see with the past war but is the consequence of the muslim mass emigration brainwashed by saudi propaganda , but Saudi are the new good friends of USA or Israel so it's certainly more politicaly correct to spit on the frenchs....
@anodyne57 Жыл бұрын
"What would Proust say is the meaning of life?" The dumbest possible line of curiosity.
@patriciapendlbury2603 Жыл бұрын
Too loud! 😫 why is she yelling?
@MrsKastell Жыл бұрын
2 things: Chanel who could not start people eating in the next table would have been annoyed by the ts ts of the… what is it? chewing gum? Also the pronunciation of. the name is atrocious.
@tommurray6407 Жыл бұрын
I had thought of marcel as a gleefully vicious gossip. Celeste albaret's book shows another much kinder version. But then we are all multitudes as whatshisname said.
@sebastianzeitblom4668 Жыл бұрын
No question Americans, Canadians, British, French, Italians, Czechs and many other victorious nations were and are still happy about the so-called Peace settlements and defend it until this day. The view of the loser, Germans, Austrians or Hungarians, are ignored at best, or labeled revanchist. Why can´t ignorant Tyrolean or Hungarian peasants just forget their language and culture and accept that they are Italian or Romanian?
@milanSK1980 Жыл бұрын
Since I have seen the documentary "Last Yugoslavian football team" I started to be a big fan of their football may it be Serbia or Croatia or even Slovenia. At that time legends like Savicevic, Boban, Prosinecki, Mihajlovic, Mijatovic, Suker, Boksic. Creme de la creme. And basketball is superb too..
@novakperunovic3698 Жыл бұрын
Very much enjoyed the conversation and thank you for bringing Zvone and Branko together for us. The questions were quite good, the answers - shall we say diplomatic (like when Branko couldn't remember who he rooted for back in 1998 ;-) And yes, most people in former Yugoslavia are still quite fond of one another despite all the scars. Perhaps like an old couple, divorced 30 years ago, each having their own second (or third) family now. For hobby historians, Simon included, Zvone tried to highlight (twice) that there was in fact the whole other dimension to the whole conflict and that was the one of a Communist regime vs Democracy. Ethnic tensions were obviously there but for many that was not the main reason for the rebellion.
@jukee67 Жыл бұрын
Maurice Samuels, for the most part is an unknown person to most but has lived his life within university institutions making him one of their chosen ones. I am almost certain he would deny being an unknown but enjoy the praising of his studies. The topic being discussed is a metaphor for the inner cities across America today or at the moment of this videos release. What this clown does not understand is that he only exists as he does today because he bought in to the programs of study he excelled in and was chosen as one that can be manipulated to continue and push the message that is in the lead on television, social media, and in public that was building up to the pandemic which accelerated the agenda. He states as fact that in 1832, bodies piled up, just as we saw during this pandemic only alot worse back then. I call that complete BS. Lets leave the dramatic words at the door. Bodies dont pile up. Why? Because you must dig and put them in the ground even if its a shallow hole because the decomposition is so foul and intense no one can even remain around such conditions to see the piles and write of them. Its a fiction writers words that give it away. Unless your a John Wayne Gacy type or lived with that type who had the gradual smell of one decomposing body in crawl space will lye covering the soil and some of the foul odor but not all...now lets add 20+ corpses to it and only the serial killer can deal with the stench. It would cause a paralyzed man from the waist down, crawl out and dig with those working arms to cover that specific odor. No bodies piled up back then and none piled up during this pandemic. This entire thing is all about wealth, power, and politics. The reset in play is all about what divides all of us to conquer us for various reasons. Modernity is not a good thing as it harms humanity. It is a disease in itself. We are all being played like fools as society has been played in the past. The same families and groups are using the strings they control that are tied to most of us. They are successful with this pathetic approach because of people that push the agenda like this guy. He will most likely witness the death of the American empire which he may hope and cheer for up to the moment he realizes they used him and then left him for those that resort to violence to beat him into his own pile once they get to him. Mr. Samuels is a stooge. I feel sorry for him and others like him because its all about covering up what those in power know but will not share with the public until it happens and they go under into hiding or even maybe into low earth orbit while the shake, rattle and roll of the poles or via a CME burst becomes chaos on the surface only to return as maybe gods when it settles down. This has happened on multiple occasions in the past...deny it or tell me science does not say that so its false. Maurice Samuels fits the profile. Some have the look, some live a certain way, some have it in the sound of their voice and some got it all going on - happy as all hell...HAPPY. Being that happy is like being a professional drunk that functions and thinks no one knows but everyone knows and laugh when he is not around...The drunk that avoids mirrors. If you dont understand then you have not lived life...your a square, a recluse or lacked the guidance when young into different things to brake from your shell in youth. Everything comes down to either irresponsible sexual behavior and/or bad parenting. Every point he hits on are just repetitive motions from back then and being used against humanity all over again. Racism and antisemitism only exists if you allow it to or introduce it into the narrative like the mainstream media does to divde and rule over all of us fools. I wonder if you read this comment do you notice the sun, moon and sky being a bit off as of late, meaning over the past few years? If this is the first time you were asked about the sky you better consider my opinion and not write it off. History is written by the winners or survivors but only published by those with the means necessary to publish what they approve to distribute to the masses. The transfer from farms to inner city and from city to farms is large scale global gentrification or how the rich get richer and keep it that way...Its all part of a big plan or group and none of us are in it. Lock me and Mr. Samuels in a room so he cant run from the debate or cancel ir block me and I am confident we would find a middle ground to agree on and the disagreements that remain will be written down to seek middle ground at a later time. I know it might be a tough moment but we humans can not run from a tooic or person or anything in this life. This guy is a runner and is in need of a genuine moment of debate with no outs to flee the room. Best of luck to everyone...The reset is real and it is close...Read between the headlines and dont pick sides...Remember governments and those with power and wealth want us to need them. We dont need them. They die without us. They are vampires. In chaos they push the idea that humanity will eat itself. That is false. In chaos or times following a horrible event, the best of humanity across the board comes to the forefront. That is the good that exists in us all when money becomes meaningless fiat like it always has been and always will be. If you fear death then you bought in during this pandemic...And do you know how foolish you all look? Most wont admit it. Its that crutch you hold on to to feel as though you fit in somewhere. We all die in the end. Dont fear the unknown which death is...simply the unknown. Embrace the unknown and avoid those that know it all and repeat the message over and over and over again and again. They only know how to manipulate the minds of anyone who pays attention to them. Shut them off. Pay attention to the sky and to those you pass by each day with eye contact and a smile when saying hello. I started to do that with each I pass and I realized how connected and alike we all are when face to face even if only for a second or two. Leave the labels at the door or better yet since they are piling up and stink...bury them. After that try and gain some balance with nature on an individual basis. Remember more CO2 is just more that trees need to breath and grow. More trees, sustains more people. Its by design...the design of an unknown divide you can call whatever you choose to. Climate change or global warming is all about allowing corporations to poison the land, air and water like usual and even more. We the people and our internal combustion engines are at the peak of efficiency...you dont see smoke coming out of all exhaust pipes for a reason. Lithium batteries and more magnesium on the roads will be the nail in the coffin. Nuclear plower plants probably already are that nail. We will see soon with the shake, rattle and roll coming. Its in the air and you can feel it in your gut if you focus and pay attention to nature...animals, birds, and bugs are messengers.
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The USA has only always gained greatly by setting up a world in which others fail. The faster the rest of the world realizes this, the better. *Washington DC power mongers employ the divide and rule technique of power.* In the past, and as one of the Big Three at Versailles, they covertly set up Europe for failure, masked behind overt expressions of "fighting for freedom and democracy." In reality, Versailles was a covert implementation of the divide and rule technique. _Europe was divided, with a ruling._ This strategy is often misunderstood, in narratives composed mostly of "being friends" or "being rivals/enemies", even though it only means that one can gain greatly if others are divided and fail. It _is_ as simple as that. "Friends" or "enemies" play no role: if others fail, the own systems gain. After Europe failed, the final domino stone Washington DC actively toppled was the British Empire. After two world wars, with countless emerging struggles in the colonies, so by 1945 the already seriously weakened and overextended Great Britain was an easy pushover... When Europe failed, as all states fought to mutual exhaustion, who gained most? From "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire." -- Michael Hudson, 2nd edition 2003 "What actually occurred was that Britain and other countries became hopelessly indebted to the United States once again (edit: during World War 2) ... “We have profited by our past mistakes,” announced Roosevelt in a speech delivered on September 3, 1942. “This time we shall know how to make full use of victory.” This time the U.S. Government would conquer its allies in a more enlightened manner, by demanding economic concessions of a legal and political nature instead of futilely seeking repayment of its wartime loans (of World War 1). The new postwar strategy sought and secured foreign markets for U.S. exports, and new fields for American investment capital in Europe’s raw materials producing colonial areas. Despite Roosevelt’s assurances to the contrary, Britain was compelled, under the Lend-Lease agreements and the terms of the first great U.S. postwar loan to Britain, to relinquish Empire Preference and to open all its markets to U.S. competition, at a time when Britain desperately needed these markets as a means by which to fund its sterling debt. Most important of all, Britain was forced to unblock its sterling and foreign-exchange balances built up by its colonies and other Sterling Area countries during the wartime years. Instead of the Allied Powers as a whole bearing the costs of these wartime credits to British Empire countries, they would be borne by Britain itself. Equally important, they would not be used as “blocked” balances that could be used only to buy British or other Sterling Area exports, but would be freed to purchase exports from any nation. Under postwar conditions this meant that they would be used in large part to purchase U.S. exports. (page 115/116) By relinquishing its right to block these balances, Britain gave up its option, while enabling the United States to make full use of its gold stock as the basis for postwar lending to purchased generalized (primarily U.S.) exports. At a stroke, Britain’s economic power was broken. What Germany as foe had been unable to accomplish in two wars against Britain, the United States accomplished with ease as its ally.(Page 117) Furthermore, under the terms on which it joined the International Monetary Fund, Britain could not devalue the pound sterling so as to dissipate the foreign-exchange value of these balances. Its liability thus was maximized - and so was America’s gain from the pool of liquidity that these balances now represented." (end of) *Only ONE attribute decides whether a system is THE DIVIDER, or becomes a part of "the divided": POWER.* After 1945 London was turned from its role of "divider of the world" into the role of "one of the divided" (the role of FAVORITE junior partner, the "peaceful handover of power" and related "special relationship"-narrative. "Special"-relationship in a power balance. These Washington DC power mongers must be rotfl...) Whatever... If your state or nation is "not at the table," you are "lunch" (Anthony Blinken). The dividers telling everybody in no uncertain terms, that their interests and even their lives don't count. *There is no doubt that Washington DC is attempting to repeat this "success" (pov) in the rising powers of Asia. The strategy can be observed to be implemented in the same way as was set up post-1900 in Europe, but in Europe the "buck catchers" (John Mearsheimer theory) were Great Britain and France. Today, it is India being used in the same role as France was 100 years ago. In case of a wider war in Asia, as India is set up against China, qui bono if _all_ lose?* The technique Washington DC employed up to the year 2000, is an almost exact repeat of the technique they used to overpower Europe around the year 1900: DIVIDE AND RULE. Divide and rule *creates* all that follows in its wake: 1) The terrorist. 2) The state of terror. 3) The terror state.
Thank you for this lovely interview! Such a treat to hear my favorite author speak. I adore her written words. Ms. Johnson, perish the thought that your works could ever be less than treasured.
It's strange how much effort the British media is putting into creating a fake hate between Croats and Serbs. Why are the British so afraid of unity between Croats and Serbs? They seem to be desperately searching for any small, unimportant, or nonexistent issues that can be used to perpetuate hate between the two groups. In every country, there are typically two main football clubs in rivalry - for example, Manchester United and Arsenal in the UK, or Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain. In Yugoslavia, it was Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade, and now in Croatia it is Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split. But the difference are that bloody clashes between fans of Manchester and Arsenal, Barcelona and Madrid are a daily occurrence. This trend makes it hard to keep a track on every incident. This explains why is much easier to focus on one incident, like the Zvonimir Boban case in 1990 to perpetuate the belief that Croats and Serbs are sworn enemies who cannot coexist peacefully. This incident is being blown out of proportion by the media in order to fuel hate between the two groups. As a summary, in this video Zvonimir Boban made it clear that he doesnt and he never had anything against the serbs or the other yugoslav nations. Just because he wanted independent croatia, that doesnt mean that he is a hater, or that he hates the other yugoslav nations. He talked about the freedom of speech in his former communist country, and not about the hate to the people of the other nationalities in Yugoslavia.
Quite interesting. Always pleasant to hear Proust talk. If only the interviewer would stop fiddling with her face!
Have just started listening to the audio. Thank you! What others are you considering? The Paris opera house perhaps?
We learned so much from Alice Kaplan, my daughter did a living wax museum and is very proud to have represented her works.
Thank you so much for this!!!
Ayelet Waldman ❤
Obrigado, Caroline, aqui do Brasil. Sei que vou parecer presunçoso, mas " descobri" Proust aos 30 anos, estou com 61 e já li e reli a série 6 vezes, com descobertas e com mais prazer a cada releitura. Penso que sou proustmaníaco( sei que não existe claro, este termo). Proust é um mundo.
Has anyone ever considered a possibility that Charles de Gaulle had him killed so he would not be someone to oppose him coming to power up on liberation of France? You notice how quickly to go had the resistance Marquis disarmed at the end of the war, it is much easier to make a power grap if you are doing it in an unarmed country,
KRISTEVA s book on Pr : Time And Sense - care to comment ? 2) Germaine BREE s book on Pr 3) CUKOR s film RICH AND FAMOUS where the Jacqueline Bissett character says sth concerning Pr to the Candice Bergen character, but I can t recall exactly what. C a n s b y fill us in on those ? O er
NDE - RESEARCH & its achievements toward Proust s "findings" and their insights in relation to I Ching... =what do we know about anything, and can we know more while staying on this side of the Ignorance ... (?). My dissertation that will NEVUHHHH be ..
I am about to start reading In Search of Lost Time. I have all 7 volumes and will journal my reading as I go along.
Caroline Weber's energetic love of Proust is such a joy to witness. Presently reading 'Proust's Duchess' by Caroline Weber, such a captivating read.
Americans are so stuck into their stupid universities. So little individuality...
One of the more interesting theories about why General DeGaulle shouted, "Vive le Québec! Vive le Québec libre" from the high balcony on Montréal's City Hall" in 1967 when Canadians were joyfully celebrating Canada's Centennial is that he was still nursing a grudge because the Canadian government under William Lyon Mackenzie King (a Liberal) did not recognize DeGaulle's Free French government until 1943 because it didn't want to tick off the Québecois who were under the sway of the far right Roman Catholic church and the Quebec Duplessis government at the time. The Revolution Tranquille in Quebec hadn't happened yet in the 1940s and is even said to have been inspired by the presence of Free French agents and sympathizers in Montreal who couldn't believe how under the thumb of the Roman Catholic church Quebec was. This interview provides me with food for thought. History is a very complicated business, isn't it?
Why are they shouting all the time?
Talking slower will ennoble you, will show that you are really one and behind each word, each phrase, each concept and not letting your mind and your ego push an push words way faster than you would want, beauty nobility clarity and ability to convince others will only happen when there is a slowing down, a humility to know that `simple` is very difficult, as far as Proust, one comment below I think nails it, Proust goes around in circles,eternally so, enjoying floating from thought to thought and from the ability (or disability) to render his thoughts clear and in so doing stronger, and unable to enhance drama, reading it is a good training intellectually, but there is not much in it, perhaps his internal disorder did not allow him to achieve real literary beauty and strength.
WW2/WW1 was result of denying sovereignty of a few European nations, Germany, Hungary, Austria, felt they were being dictated on internal matters. How do you decide who is the other? Old views against new truth. A new confidence or new circumstance to reject an old equation. World can never remain the same, a new power is born every century.
I'd like to hear what that first husband of hers has to say about getting to really know people. I will say my first impression is of a very entertaining introduction to Proust.
Thank you for this. Do you have anything on James Joyce and the novel Ulysse?
@jimmartin1803 DO YA have anything on Woolf s BETWEEN THE ACTS ? (and not just THE WAVES ...).
One does not simply read Proust, one studies and passionately so, or otherwise it is futile.
very helpful per se but I found the discussion about having reading in French superfluous. Of course if one can read the given language reading it in the original is more than a no-brainer. Imagine forgoing reading things in only the language you can speak. How ridiculous is that? For the majority of the native English speakers it rules out all of the Greek classics, all of renown religious and many philosophical writings. I need not expand.
Always great to hear - or read - Margaret McMillan.
he was a good player, but he is a great nationalist, almost a fascist, and everyone knows that in the former Yugoslavia. he will never tell the truth that the Serbs and Belgrade saved him when he attacked a policeman in Zagreb, otherwise he would have ended up in court and in prison.
Soviet Air Groups were ahead of rge AVG in support of the Nationalists from the battle of Shanghai in 1937 until the summer of 1941. Chennault wasn't even allowed to recruit on US military bases until Indochina was occupied by the Japanese. Until then it was Japan that we supported with the overwhelming majority of their oil needs even through and after the USS Panay attack and sinking.. I saw "The 800". with English soundtrack. It was kind of like the Alamo but with summary executions and cursing. Pretty good movie actually.
Thoroughly enjoyed this interview
I’ve never been a fan of Brussel Prousts, even though they’re very popular with a Roast Dickens dinner.
"I feel like I didn't understand the whole thing but wanted to cry anyway." (Paraphrasing the host.) You have summed up all of Proust to so many!
Absolutely loved this. So look fwd to reading PDuchess when ive completed In Search.. You were both wonderful to listen to thank you!
Nice video! I’m living in Japan and they have wonderful French breads. I have not knowingly had any other French style breads. In the past, when I’ve used American flours, I did not wow over the taste and texture but, I loved the smell. Is it possible to get French tasting bread using American flours?
M.MacMillan knows a great deal about WWI and the consequences that followed!
Scream much?
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Interesting programme, but Macmillan does not declare she is related to Lloyd George. To the Irish he was crafty, duplicitous and in the words of one historian spoke out of both sides of his mouth. His meddling in the Greek-Turkish conflict during 1922-23 led to the massacre at Smyrna. There was still conflict in Europe and the Middle East into the early 1920's.
If you've never seen it, try to find a video of the Monty Python game show spoof of the "All England Summarize Proust" competition. Classic!
Nice presentation. I just started vol 4. I learned a lot. Thanks.
WOUW, THE SOE DID ALSO BETRAY ABOUT 200 DUTCH RESISTANCE FIGHTERS TOO!!! JUST TO KEEP UP A SCAM GAME THEY PLAYED AGAINST GERMAN INTELLIGENCE!!! THEY KEPT ON PARACHUTING THOSE AGENTS INTO THE NETHERLANDS, WHILE THEY KNEW, THE GERMANS WERE WAITING FOR THEM!!!
Please stop shouting and better inform yourself on this subject...
Love her writing so much. Love listening/watching her interviews. Looking forward to her next novel.
During the war France was occupied by the nazis (after 100000 casulties in 1940); there was no possibility to oppose efficiently when you have the nazis in front of you, in France just like everywhere in occupied Europe and the german didn't impose to sign the armistice at the same place than the 1918 capitulation as a mark of respect for France ..... Antisemitism in France today has nothing to see with the past war but is the consequence of the muslim mass emigration brainwashed by saudi propaganda , but Saudi are the new good friends of USA or Israel so it's certainly more politicaly correct to spit on the frenchs....
"What would Proust say is the meaning of life?" The dumbest possible line of curiosity.
Too loud! 😫 why is she yelling?
2 things: Chanel who could not start people eating in the next table would have been annoyed by the ts ts of the… what is it? chewing gum? Also the pronunciation of. the name is atrocious.
I had thought of marcel as a gleefully vicious gossip. Celeste albaret's book shows another much kinder version. But then we are all multitudes as whatshisname said.
No question Americans, Canadians, British, French, Italians, Czechs and many other victorious nations were and are still happy about the so-called Peace settlements and defend it until this day. The view of the loser, Germans, Austrians or Hungarians, are ignored at best, or labeled revanchist. Why can´t ignorant Tyrolean or Hungarian peasants just forget their language and culture and accept that they are Italian or Romanian?
Since I have seen the documentary "Last Yugoslavian football team" I started to be a big fan of their football may it be Serbia or Croatia or even Slovenia. At that time legends like Savicevic, Boban, Prosinecki, Mihajlovic, Mijatovic, Suker, Boksic. Creme de la creme. And basketball is superb too..
Very much enjoyed the conversation and thank you for bringing Zvone and Branko together for us. The questions were quite good, the answers - shall we say diplomatic (like when Branko couldn't remember who he rooted for back in 1998 ;-) And yes, most people in former Yugoslavia are still quite fond of one another despite all the scars. Perhaps like an old couple, divorced 30 years ago, each having their own second (or third) family now. For hobby historians, Simon included, Zvone tried to highlight (twice) that there was in fact the whole other dimension to the whole conflict and that was the one of a Communist regime vs Democracy. Ethnic tensions were obviously there but for many that was not the main reason for the rebellion.
Maurice Samuels, for the most part is an unknown person to most but has lived his life within university institutions making him one of their chosen ones. I am almost certain he would deny being an unknown but enjoy the praising of his studies. The topic being discussed is a metaphor for the inner cities across America today or at the moment of this videos release. What this clown does not understand is that he only exists as he does today because he bought in to the programs of study he excelled in and was chosen as one that can be manipulated to continue and push the message that is in the lead on television, social media, and in public that was building up to the pandemic which accelerated the agenda. He states as fact that in 1832, bodies piled up, just as we saw during this pandemic only alot worse back then. I call that complete BS. Lets leave the dramatic words at the door. Bodies dont pile up. Why? Because you must dig and put them in the ground even if its a shallow hole because the decomposition is so foul and intense no one can even remain around such conditions to see the piles and write of them. Its a fiction writers words that give it away. Unless your a John Wayne Gacy type or lived with that type who had the gradual smell of one decomposing body in crawl space will lye covering the soil and some of the foul odor but not all...now lets add 20+ corpses to it and only the serial killer can deal with the stench. It would cause a paralyzed man from the waist down, crawl out and dig with those working arms to cover that specific odor. No bodies piled up back then and none piled up during this pandemic. This entire thing is all about wealth, power, and politics. The reset in play is all about what divides all of us to conquer us for various reasons. Modernity is not a good thing as it harms humanity. It is a disease in itself. We are all being played like fools as society has been played in the past. The same families and groups are using the strings they control that are tied to most of us. They are successful with this pathetic approach because of people that push the agenda like this guy. He will most likely witness the death of the American empire which he may hope and cheer for up to the moment he realizes they used him and then left him for those that resort to violence to beat him into his own pile once they get to him. Mr. Samuels is a stooge. I feel sorry for him and others like him because its all about covering up what those in power know but will not share with the public until it happens and they go under into hiding or even maybe into low earth orbit while the shake, rattle and roll of the poles or via a CME burst becomes chaos on the surface only to return as maybe gods when it settles down. This has happened on multiple occasions in the past...deny it or tell me science does not say that so its false. Maurice Samuels fits the profile. Some have the look, some live a certain way, some have it in the sound of their voice and some got it all going on - happy as all hell...HAPPY. Being that happy is like being a professional drunk that functions and thinks no one knows but everyone knows and laugh when he is not around...The drunk that avoids mirrors. If you dont understand then you have not lived life...your a square, a recluse or lacked the guidance when young into different things to brake from your shell in youth. Everything comes down to either irresponsible sexual behavior and/or bad parenting. Every point he hits on are just repetitive motions from back then and being used against humanity all over again. Racism and antisemitism only exists if you allow it to or introduce it into the narrative like the mainstream media does to divde and rule over all of us fools. I wonder if you read this comment do you notice the sun, moon and sky being a bit off as of late, meaning over the past few years? If this is the first time you were asked about the sky you better consider my opinion and not write it off. History is written by the winners or survivors but only published by those with the means necessary to publish what they approve to distribute to the masses. The transfer from farms to inner city and from city to farms is large scale global gentrification or how the rich get richer and keep it that way...Its all part of a big plan or group and none of us are in it. Lock me and Mr. Samuels in a room so he cant run from the debate or cancel ir block me and I am confident we would find a middle ground to agree on and the disagreements that remain will be written down to seek middle ground at a later time. I know it might be a tough moment but we humans can not run from a tooic or person or anything in this life. This guy is a runner and is in need of a genuine moment of debate with no outs to flee the room. Best of luck to everyone...The reset is real and it is close...Read between the headlines and dont pick sides...Remember governments and those with power and wealth want us to need them. We dont need them. They die without us. They are vampires. In chaos they push the idea that humanity will eat itself. That is false. In chaos or times following a horrible event, the best of humanity across the board comes to the forefront. That is the good that exists in us all when money becomes meaningless fiat like it always has been and always will be. If you fear death then you bought in during this pandemic...And do you know how foolish you all look? Most wont admit it. Its that crutch you hold on to to feel as though you fit in somewhere. We all die in the end. Dont fear the unknown which death is...simply the unknown. Embrace the unknown and avoid those that know it all and repeat the message over and over and over again and again. They only know how to manipulate the minds of anyone who pays attention to them. Shut them off. Pay attention to the sky and to those you pass by each day with eye contact and a smile when saying hello. I started to do that with each I pass and I realized how connected and alike we all are when face to face even if only for a second or two. Leave the labels at the door or better yet since they are piling up and stink...bury them. After that try and gain some balance with nature on an individual basis. Remember more CO2 is just more that trees need to breath and grow. More trees, sustains more people. Its by design...the design of an unknown divide you can call whatever you choose to. Climate change or global warming is all about allowing corporations to poison the land, air and water like usual and even more. We the people and our internal combustion engines are at the peak of efficiency...you dont see smoke coming out of all exhaust pipes for a reason. Lithium batteries and more magnesium on the roads will be the nail in the coffin. Nuclear plower plants probably already are that nail. We will see soon with the shake, rattle and roll coming. Its in the air and you can feel it in your gut if you focus and pay attention to nature...animals, birds, and bugs are messengers.
Great discussion
Excellent. Im on my second read-