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In a strong feild of terrible moderators over the years this guy is far and away the worst.
“No favours are done by prolonging fairytales into adulthood.”
1:15:50 Recorded in 2018 "Which is mindblowingly unethical" We are living in a mindblowingly unethical times. 1:17:50 1:19:03 "If you accept principles then you have to be critical of everyone"
Listening more and more to Donna Tartt, I literally and strongly wanna go back to our old kind, a bit naive soviet fairy-tales.
When can you come to England love to see them on a stage with David Olusoga , and Kehinde Andrews
This is truly fascinating and empowers us all in tackling and understanding racism
cerebral narcissism writ upon regional dysfunction, the descent of intellectual hubris into sociopathy by subjects so distastefully entitled they bring the bullingdon club to mind. a distasteful reminder of a reality as callous as the metastasis of an old england into a shallower yet darker new winter. a corrupt hopelessness. when i put the book down i did so with relief and finality.
It's astounding how these American states got away with such blatantly targeting discriminatory practices yet claiming to be democratic. But I guess it wasn't so conspicuous since it was always shrouded in lies and misdirects.
Run for Governor of BAMA poor people are poorly represented, and I mean poor whites, Blacks,
The main problem I had with Chris Hichens was his air of omniscience. No one is that.
Awsome topic. Definitely busted some seriously flawed myths (photographic memory...I've always doubted that this existed). Your using science and research to prove your points was top notch. You get an A+ for your frank honesty. Harry Lorrayne covered a large number of memory techniques and published them years ago. It is unfortunate that I went through 24 years of education and don't recall anyone in the system recommending these techniques. Fortunately for me, I stumbled on the topic when I started college . I used it to memorize my American History lectures. Our professor had a lot of essay questions on her exam, and I aced it. I have used the techniques to retain important, professionally relevant facts with solid retention and recall. I like your breakdown of the topic. It has cleared up many questions that I have had over the years about memory techniques (especially your comment about revisiting). Some of the memory experts have made ludicrous claims that you will never forget anything once you use their techniques. Thank you so very much for speaking out as an authority who has truly done his research.
Bravo.
Trumpism? You misspelled SANITY.
This book blows my mind. Its so ambitious and the stories so brilliantly told.
Ellroy strikes me as someone who's read Raymond Chandler and decided "I can do better." 😂😂😂
looking at Martin's impressive ouvre (and the noticable dropoff in quality towards the end) it becomes evident that the adage is correct: as soon as an artist gets political, their work turns to sh*t, or vice versa
MFA/CIA/MONEY LAUNDERING
That was AWESOME - to 43:13
Single for 10 years 💪🏽😎
20:05 - love 🎯 this
It's a great book: 'Empire of Pain.' The Sacklers: a family of scurrying rats. It is awful and annoying how the Sackler-type corrupt behavior goes on with the powerful in our society. Pat Keefe explains how they control everything including the narrative so well, explaining how it's done- use the same Doctors (for recommendations), use the same Accountants, same Lawyers, own the magazines who print the stories and ads, shroud yourself in secrecy. And, in this case, inject the mice (humans) with whatever they (Sacklers) want, i.e. Valium, OxyContin, and watch the bank account grow. Usually these people get away with it, and are worshipped by the masses, so it's nice to see them get caught at least once in a while. People like the Sacklers aren't our friends.
Good interview: Shriver is sharp, perceptive and funny, and what an appropriate surname for a writer.
Oh to hear what he would have to say about the global state of affairs now. Wow
I watched this Documentary it’s racist and trash 🗑️ disgusting.
Hitchens' opponent is obviously very well read, but maaaaan. He DROOOONED on and on and only caressed something similar to a point
I don't know if that was sarcasm that I missed, but after opening with "I want to assure you that the earth is flat because in the Qu'ran it says "habala haba", so we know it's established fact and we can move on"... I just automatically zoned out and stopped listening.
The interviewer is insufferable.
Thanks very much.❤
The interviewer cracks me up. He’s clearly got one prejudiced agenda and wants to hyper-focus on that and the author doesn’t fall for it
A very good interview, but sound is uneven and hard to listen to. A sound guy could balance the levels.
Listening to this 5 years later, knowing what Dr. Snyder said has worked its way to 2024, is a horror. We dodged a bullet in the 1930s, but can we do so now?
Oh dear I found Christopher Hitchens very late in life. I didn't know the awful details of all organized religions. I have seen the evils first hand of the worst of humanity. It is the history of the poets ans scribes trying to account for this wonderful gift of life and creation. Then evil steps in against love. I have discovered life and creation are all about and are love. I have discovered that life and creation are about infinite perfection. And those who are evil do not know love and are quite defective just born blind to life's beauty and the perfection of all that is created.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Carol Anderson, I have always wanted to ask a question, but I didn't know who until I watched your videos. Carol, the white man, has met so many other races in our world. Why is it that for the last 600 or 700 years we have met white people? Why are we such an existential threat to them? What is this fear of the black man, and where is it coming from?
I just finished 'She's Come Undone' for the 12th time--and the first time in audiobook form. It's my favorite book of all time. Every so often, I google the book and read some reviews and whatnot, and this time, I happened to find this video.
The “real” proposal of Carbon Quantitative Easing and the inspiration of the the novel is the work of Dr Delton Chen. It’s credited in Chapter 42 as the “Chen plan” and Carbon QE is eventually adopted by central banks. The real proposal is quite brilliant and more practical as the banks have a minor role of supporting a price floor of the asset. Research Global Carbon Reward for a deeper understanding.
He is such a hard writer to interview. I’ve seen him a number of times when he came to the Netherlands on booktours, there is always an undercurrent of akwardness, he really does not seem to enjoy it. The Shards is a great book.
I know what you're getting at. Maybe he just really sees it almost as a burden but a necessary evil for his fans and public relations.
Wow, here I am 100 pages into Anna Karenina and Jeffrey Eugenides has to come and spoil the whole plot for me. Nice going :( interesting talk though
All Americans might want to go from their position of certainty around their ideology to a position of curious.
Ty her environment engineer 😂😢😮
Freud ov Thomas 🎉❤❤❤ ❤
How ashamed Adams would be of Harvard today, headed by plagiarist and antisemites.
How ashamed Adams would be of Harvard today, headed by plagiarist and antisemites.
Boy this is one fierce Lady! Intellect of the highest order! Wow!
Wonderful it’s got 2 comments. Lightweight neoliberal secular Jew comes to Amsterdam to talk about “fear” Wonder if he realizes epi-genetics are more at play here than his less than courageous plea for humans to oppose tRump, antisemitism and other boogie men lurking around his leafy, liberal and loaded townhouse located somewhere west of Gaza. Free Gaza Foer. And stop acting like a neocon.
He's an amazing orator writer narrator. He actually takes my mind off nonsense social media and people like Donald Trump and refocuses it on history
Why no English language audio books?
Depunked
Mr.Carr is correct when he says that internet is a interrupting technology, it doesn't help us to become more imaginative, contemplative, empathetic because it is a source of mere information. Just as T.S .Eliot says that ' we don't have wisdom any more, but only knowledge, and only information rather then true knowledge, we aren't able to pause and go into a thought ful reverie but are over loaded with information. We need to cut back our internet usage.
It's a shame it was cut off. Like Amis himself.
Aristotle used to be true sexist. Anaksagor is much more worthy to mention.
A monumental mind.