He doesn't seem to believe in himself. He spouts his opinions and subjective assumptions but always asks the interviewer what she thinks in order to attain reassurance. Someone who is truely confident and believes in themselves is not worried by what other people think. He is insecure but he is very logical and humble. Next book I'm going to read is "Infinite Jest".
@superduperbard Yeah if only he had more depth as a reader he would have not suffered the consequences of an incurable illness. You really think he had not read Marx? Tell us more about how you liked his footnotes real good.
1. @ 7:13 his obsession with what we drive (our interest in material wealth) & what it says about us as a culture ("how we live & what we drive"). = garden-variety liberal arts Marxist drivel.
2. @ 3:20 he says that his generation is endlessly articulate about their complaints (in a way that a blue collar bloke is not). Whiny, self-important navel-gazing.
I was more offended by the way he sloppily characterized the factory-worker.
3. He's not as bright as I'd always assumed he was.
@TheShannon76 about your second point, he says it's "a start" and "his guess'. As you said, he uses "generation"- but uses it to include everyone. He explains that no one is "nourished", but we all are able to talk about how malnourished we are. He says the blue collar man isn't nourished by his job "either", which implies the white collar man is just as malnourished. I don't see how he discriminates between blue and white collar. Your offense appears to me to be misplaced and hastily assumed
@TheShannon76 also, "how we live and what we drive" is an important factor in the point he is trying to make. reform will come via cataclysm. Yet, despite 9/11 (a recent event in respect to this interview and perhaps the cataclysm he was discussing) people attempt to protect themselves and validate their own safety rather than coming together, as in his reference to the Great Depression. He's "more scared of us" using power against innocents because of our love of comfort. We are unpredictable.
@TheShannon76 And what would the opposite be? If you aren't conscious of class division, then what are you? Ignorant of its existence? I think the smarter a person is, the harder it is to not appear like an elitist to less intelligent people.
I have read many of his non-fiction essays: penetrating work and done with humor - I was very impressed with D.F. Wallace's work.
howseth 1 week ago
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Smaruku 2 months ago
The entire tone of the interview shifts at 4:23.
Lovetricity 3 months ago
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Lovetricity 3 months ago
He doesn't seem to believe in himself. He spouts his opinions and subjective assumptions but always asks the interviewer what she thinks in order to attain reassurance. Someone who is truely confident and believes in themselves is not worried by what other people think. He is insecure but he is very logical and humble. Next book I'm going to read is "Infinite Jest".
ecaepevolhturt 3 months ago
@ecaepevolhturt
hall mark quality of massive intelligence to be sure
mopman1337 2 weeks ago
Love him. Go somewhere else to fight, please. These videos are the only thing keeping me happy right now.
ohfoolishworkerbee 5 months ago 13
@ohfoolishworkerbee Oh realy? Now that's interesting.
destybenway 3 months ago
capitalism. He should've read more Marx. It might have saved him.
superduperbard 6 months ago
@superduperbard Yeah if only he had more depth as a reader he would have not suffered the consequences of an incurable illness. You really think he had not read Marx? Tell us more about how you liked his footnotes real good.
yfhjfhjlj 6 months ago 2
it is a fine interview. It is hardly perfect. I like it better than his prose. but not as good as his footnotes.
superduperbard 6 months ago
1. @ 7:13 his obsession with what we drive (our interest in material wealth) & what it says about us as a culture ("how we live & what we drive"). = garden-variety liberal arts Marxist drivel.
2. @ 3:20 he says that his generation is endlessly articulate about their complaints (in a way that a blue collar bloke is not). Whiny, self-important navel-gazing.
I was more offended by the way he sloppily characterized the factory-worker.
3. He's not as bright as I'd always assumed he was.
TheShannon76 8 months ago
@TheShannon76 about your second point, he says it's "a start" and "his guess'. As you said, he uses "generation"- but uses it to include everyone. He explains that no one is "nourished", but we all are able to talk about how malnourished we are. He says the blue collar man isn't nourished by his job "either", which implies the white collar man is just as malnourished. I don't see how he discriminates between blue and white collar. Your offense appears to me to be misplaced and hastily assumed
starius1154 8 months ago
@TheShannon76 also, "how we live and what we drive" is an important factor in the point he is trying to make. reform will come via cataclysm. Yet, despite 9/11 (a recent event in respect to this interview and perhaps the cataclysm he was discussing) people attempt to protect themselves and validate their own safety rather than coming together, as in his reference to the Great Depression. He's "more scared of us" using power against innocents because of our love of comfort. We are unpredictable.
starius1154 8 months ago
@TheShannon76 Not everyone can be a total genius like you.
TommyTomato93 7 months ago
@TheShannon76 He's brighter.
defenestration1000 7 months ago
@TheShannon76 you're a stupid cunt
chewbacca15 7 months ago
wow....he's kind of a class-conscious elitist.
TheShannon76 9 months ago
@TheShannon76 And what would the opposite be? If you aren't conscious of class division, then what are you? Ignorant of its existence? I think the smarter a person is, the harder it is to not appear like an elitist to less intelligent people.
leafydog 8 months ago
@leafydog well then, by your logic, he must seem like the most impossibly elitist person in all of human existence, no?
TheShannon76 8 months ago
2:09
golden moment
LittleZaklzLZ 9 months ago