Now to write an intelligent, and particularly poignant comment about B.R. Hey wait, look-at-dat. Phwooor, it's Joan Bakewell - the thinking mans crumpet, way-hay!!!
@stevjen1 Don't define yourself as an Atheist. That only creates a social norm of Beliver as the default which we do not want. Nobody grows up naturally thinking there is a God. its a Story like Santa Claus. I don't believe in Santa but I do not define myself by this understanding. Nobody can really define themselves. once they do they become boxed in and sheltered. Its ok just to be.
@AgowTisro Trust me I have called myself an Atheist just to piss people off! I just think the Word Atheist tends to slap Religious people were it hurts. I just let them wonder in ignorance.
When I read "Why I am not a Christian", my life changed. It enabled me to cast off the false dogmas thrust upon me from about 4 years old and start to grow up. I am still growing up and fondly remember the early days of realising that I could have my own opinion about the world. My guiding principle being to ask "Does it sound like magic? If so, then don't believe it!"
Interesting video. Obviously this video does not give you the valuable insights for which this man is known, but is interesting as a way to get to know the person. Bertrand Russell was a giant in philosophy.
Wouldn't it be brilliant to have Bertrand Russell and Stephen Fry over for a dinner party and discuss all the wonderful topics that can enlighten one's mind.
My comments are intended seriously, and should be taken seriously.
I realise they're necessarily brief, and could do with expansion, but they express my true feelings and opinions on the matter.
I would be interested in knowing in what way you hope them to be "wry send-up to pretense". Do you have any particular part in mind, or do you refer to the entire post?
As an addenda, and as a matter of interest, Russell was not a Christian, but he inherited the Platonic-Christian intellectual tradition, and represents a form of it in extreme development and therefore in extreme decadence. His great contribution is not as a philosopher, but as a mathematician.
To consider idea, as the product of the intellect, more worthy of intelligent conversation than either event or people, therefore, is to expose the speaker as the heir to Plato and the following Christian tradition in his or her belief in the primacy of the intellect.
My feeling is that we must break with this tradition if we are to free the humanity that for over two millennia has been been imprisoned, bound and gagged.
The intellect should be put back where it belongs, as the generator of rational thought. It is useful for problem-solving; I would not like to fix a car engine without it.
But we cannot fix life with it, as every attempt at social engineering has proved. We cannot live within the purely rational and remain sane. To attempt to do so is to resign from life, with all its absurdities and irregularities. The world of ideas is absorbing, but it is in the end a barren world.
And so back to the original point. The old sore about the relative importance of ideas, events and people is based entirely on the Western Christian tradition (with its roots in Plato) that the intellect is the most important human attribute. The whole of our society is now based on this assumption.
I would challenge this by saying that the intellect over-valued, and needs to be put in its proper place. It is necessary, but should not be regarded as the leading attribute of life.
And by religion, I don't mean organized religion, which I heartily detest as just another collection of dead ideas. I mean a proper reverence for life, as experienced every day, as it is lived in our relationship with others, our sexuality, our emotions and our perceptions.
Put simply, it is not fact that matters, but truth. All facts are true, but truth is a greater category than fact, and embraces both fact and that which we perceive or feel to be true.
When I say that people are the only thing worth discussing, I am not talking about idle gossip, which, again, is the product of idea. I mean the essential relationship of our selves to the rest of the living world, and to one another; how we, as individuals, connect (or not) with the rest of sentient and non-sentient existence. This might be seen as a reference to philosophy, but I am inclined to think it comes closer to religion.
People must have primacy, because if they did not, we would not be here to discuss either this matter or any other. Neither would there be anyone present to initiate either ideas or events.
Events come and go, but underneath them nothing really changes. Also, they repeat themselves continually, with minor differences. Most events are merely contingent, are not organic, and are usually the product of ideas. The exception to this is the natural event, such as a volcanic eruption, over which we have no control.
People, on the other hand, are always with us in the sense that if they were not, there would be nobody to experience either ideas or events.
It's not irrelevant whether ideas are sterile or not. It's very much to the point. If we spend too much time with sterile things we make ourselves sterile. That's (gradually) what's happening to the world. Russell was a good example of such a man. Although he lived to a grand age, he had died in his soul long before. That's why he was so unhappy.
I'll have to split this reply into sections to get round the word limit...
@eastwood1941 That's pretty stupid, just because ideas maybe "sterile" and "dead" can still be worth discussing, whether or not their sterile or dead is irrelevant.. People come and go as well, we are not infinite.. I think you're confused, think!
@ToneAnote old in these video's? Yes. Booring, Hell no.
This man led all but a boring life. His thinking is as far removed from boring as can be. Not forgetting his thinking and realizations were far ahead of his time.
I'd have to say that this is a man I could talk to for days on end.
Hi,everybody could you help me please, i don´t understand english very well, but i like the interview is very interesting. somebody has this video whit subtitules in spanish.
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I am unsure what to make of this man. Going by first impressions and appearances he seems amiable and caring. On the other hand, I was greatly disturbed, to say the least, by his writings in "The Impact of Science on Society".
I would like to go on the record as being someone who has both added to the views of this video and to the views of "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga. It's not impossible for an intelligent person to enjoy both.
@supahsekzy You stupid fucking asshole. Principia Mathematica is a work by Russell, and Snoop Dogg is a 21st Century glamorized musician, like Gaga. Shut your mouth you stupid, ignorant retard.
@bobdy9988 I'm the retard? You completely missed my point. Snoop Dogg is a bad ass and your preference for him needs no defense. Lady Gaga on the other hand...IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE SAME THING.
You might like decent music but god you're a dumbass.
So sad this kind of interview gets ~165k views while "Lady" Gaga gets by factors more. There is a saying "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, simple minds discuss people." So true, don't you think so?
@TheMeanEYE LOL. That is an interesting point. I do think if one is discussing people, one had better bring up interesting people, to have an interesting conversation. For example, Russell was brilliant and his actions are admirable.
@TheMeanEYE I agree it is sad. I think part of the problem is that intellectual snobs,and there are so many of them, want to keep these great minds and great ideas to themsleves and exclude the commons from them.
@TheMeanEYE I think people are much more interesting to discuss than events. And what about ideas about people? Is that a degradation of ideas? I guess "great minds" are interested in things like number theory and nothing else. Whoever made that saying is a narrow-minded idiot.
@TheMeanEYE You hit the hail so hard on the head that it went straight through the fucking wood. I am absolutely amazed yet completely unsuprised by the lack of television programs that have actual philosophical themes like this. There's just not a single program where people just sit down and talk about this stuff. I'm glad that YouTube hosts a buttload of interviews and programs like this but the lack of modern versions is appaling.
@Stygian9 This was recorded long time ago but I agree. I don't remember when was the last time I watched television. Besides Bertrand Russell I enjoy watching Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins. Endless fun. :)
My fave Russell quote in is my video series..it's video "2/42"...Russell had his blunders but he certainly had his moments, but he always had an eloquent quote.
What a thoughtless and arrogant comment. Both were brilliant philosophers and mathematicians; it is utterly absurd to describe Russell as 'laughable' because one of his theories was later disproved by Godel. By such ridiculous logic, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant and others would all be undeserving of respect. They are rightly revered because of their influence in the development of philosophy, not because they were ultimately right or wrong.
Russell thought Hegel was a nobhead. They had a fight in 1900, about logic. Hegel said, "It is logical through principle of reason punch thou in the head" Russell lost the fight. hahaha. In a book
There's peace amongst prisoners in filthy cells. There's peace in Chinese orphanages whereat the children are tied to their beds & chairs. The cemetery is a peaceful place as are shark-infested waters once all the sailors have been eaten. Justice entails fair-play, property rights, privacy, self-sovereignty.
So were many people of the era. Most people pre-1945 were racist and anti-semetic too. A hundred years before Russell lots of people thought slavery was a-okay and before that it was natural for Kings and Nobles to rule and that commoners were born dirty.
Fifty years from now who knows what viewpoints will be held as backwards.
I doubt there is any famous hsitorical figure who didn't think someone we regard as backwards today.
Was it not isaac newton who wrote principia??? --------- Comment: And was it not : Gallileo Gallilei, who got in there earlier @ Leaning Tower of Pisa experiments? Measured plumb weights? Gravity and all that. Not meant to be provocative but GG' Gallileo Gallileo got there before either I- Isaac Newton, or B Russell much afterwards, - By over a hundred, possibly much more, years. - E pur si muove. Kind regards Michael
It never changes- At the heart of every Atheist is his desire to have no accountability for sexual deviances and perversity. Oh what a tangles web we weave when we at first seek to deceive.
@whiteliketar all life exists first and foremost to pass on its genes and perpetuate itself. Sex is the method of that perpetuation. The reason sex feels so pleasureable is fairly obvious to grasp as an evolutionary outcome.
Sex is the most important thing we do - we are compelled to do - and the pleasure of it is one of the aspects which helps better facilitate the activity.
The notions of deviance and pervesity are nonsense with sex between viable partners. Your views of sex are ignorant.
Bertrand Russell is a dirty Eugenicist..........The mark of a noble man is a man who uses his gifts for the overall betterment of humanity.......Russell's idea was to eliminate the "unfit" because they were scum, unworthy of life............Russell is the real piece of scum!
@ChiefClickClack well, wouldn't eliminating the unfit result in the betterment of humanity? less people to feed, less resources used, less unwanted pregnancies and broken families that dont provide love to their children.. who end up fucked up children, join gangs, and then repeat the process. doesnt he have a point? not that i agree with it at all, but its got a degree of truth in it
You have clearly never read even a sentence of any of Russell's work. He spent a good deal of his life campaigning against such ideology in both words and deeds. Even in his appraisal of Plato, in History of Western Philosophy, he makes clear the abomination of such practices.
Please, produce even a morsel of evidence that Russell was a Eugenicist, or else back off.
@ChiefClickClack No. Check your facts. He was a tireless antiwar lobbyist, and an advocate of the less privileged. Don't just repeat things without checking their validity! It makes you look stupid.
Our progressive evolution is dependent upon the collapse of our current society with the opportunity of rebuilding a new world based on sustainable foundation that is in harmony with the planet.. Only with complete transparancy wiil we be able to chart a more viable future for humanity. Quantum physics emphasizes a fundamental truth the" observer creates the world". Once we share the planet as ONE HUMAN COMMUNITY IN COOPERATION can the entire population make history consciously
Our world is hostage to the insatiable rampaging of the ruling class private gain and greed, dominating,dehumanising,devaluing everyone and everything in the midst. We can and must change the wage slavery of immense humanity in a market system of artificial scarcity . We can share the world for our common needs and well being in harmony within and without.
Let us celebrate our illustrious/industrious/infamous/notorious eugenicists Maggy Sanger, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Konrad Lorenz, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Darwin, Teddy Roosevelt, Barry Soetoro. There has always been crowding. Too many people in an apartment house, on a bus, on a plane. Population reduction begins with you.
@GBfuryattacks Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead coauthored a book, or rather an intended series of books, entitled "Principia Mathematica," which had as its aim the execution of the logicist program, namely, demonstrating that all pure mathematics (Cf. Russell's "Principle of Mathematics" for a definition of "pure mathematics") could be deduced from a small set of logical axioms. That is, Russell and Whitehead intended to show that pure mathematics is in fact logic.
First thanks jjvanka....He was a lovely man,I read many of his books as a young man and thoroughly enjoyed them.I have no idea what idiocy most of these comments represent but they bear little resemblance to Philosophical observation.Russel was a creature of and from his Time and place ,there is no reason to apologise on his behalf.A great thinker and Humanitarian
Joan Bakewell may have been the last person to use the word "humbug"
andyrooney12 3 days ago
genius
leebeer 4 days ago
He looks primed to be made into a Disney animal.
PrivateAckbar 6 days ago
What lady introduces us to Russell?
MrScratchy9 2 weeks ago
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@MrScratchy9 As Mr. rob16248 mentioned in his peculiar manner, she is Joan Bakewell.
peoman2 2 weeks ago
@MrScratchy9 - Joan Bakewell
jjvanka 1 week ago
4:15 he's so funny!
diogotomediogo 2 weeks ago
Now to write an intelligent, and particularly poignant comment about B.R. Hey wait, look-at-dat. Phwooor, it's Joan Bakewell - the thinking mans crumpet, way-hay!!!
rob16248 2 weeks ago
One of the best things about this is that he is 85. :D
TKStoddart 1 month ago
Thumbs up for Russell!
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MagnaVeritasEst 1 month ago
i could have used this mans wisdom, many years ago...
and now that i have it. I SHALL us it.
bagoodtube 2 months ago
@bagoodtube Yes me too. I shall use it.
peoman2 1 month ago
WOW! a '' real Human ''
bagoodtube 2 months ago
idol too look up to
Nothing2Nothing90 2 months ago
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tastytamago 2 months ago
LIKE. THUMBS UP.
dopeasfuckk 2 months ago
A wonderful man and champion for atheists. Bit like Christopher Hitchens. I too would have love to speak with him.
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@stevjen1 Don't define yourself as an Atheist. That only creates a social norm of Beliver as the default which we do not want. Nobody grows up naturally thinking there is a God. its a Story like Santa Claus. I don't believe in Santa but I do not define myself by this understanding. Nobody can really define themselves. once they do they become boxed in and sheltered. Its ok just to be.
HyperColours 2 months ago
@HyperColours In times when it matters, I see nothing wrong with calling yourself an atheist.
AgowTisro 1 month ago
@AgowTisro Trust me I have called myself an Atheist just to piss people off! I just think the Word Atheist tends to slap Religious people were it hurts. I just let them wonder in ignorance.
HyperColours 1 month ago
@HyperColours How juvenile.
mikelheron20 1 month ago
"exemplified unashamedly".. Why don't people speak like this anymore?!
poklar 2 months ago
"to my great surprise, I was in the wolves stomach and not in heaven" O________________O
t3hpez 2 months ago
nice video
DanielWppslander 2 months ago
the ''extremely lovely lady'' introducing Bertrand has completely captured my
heart .. i can't stop watching this classy ''WOMAN''
bagoodtube 2 months ago
Bertrand Russell boring? He is always considered to be one of the greatest philosophical minds of all times with his undesputed reason for fact.
martenfr 3 months ago
Ghandi with a suit!
SShamit1 3 months ago
When I read "Why I am not a Christian", my life changed. It enabled me to cast off the false dogmas thrust upon me from about 4 years old and start to grow up. I am still growing up and fondly remember the early days of realising that I could have my own opinion about the world. My guiding principle being to ask "Does it sound like magic? If so, then don't believe it!"
tedgrant2 3 months ago
@tedgrant2 researching is more accurate :) magic is real
MrMinutemen 3 months ago
Interesting video. Obviously this video does not give you the valuable insights for which this man is known, but is interesting as a way to get to know the person. Bertrand Russell was a giant in philosophy.
gaijinwill 3 months ago
Wouldn't it be brilliant to have Bertrand Russell and Stephen Fry over for a dinner party and discuss all the wonderful topics that can enlighten one's mind.
nriab23 4 months ago
My comments are intended seriously, and should be taken seriously.
I realise they're necessarily brief, and could do with expansion, but they express my true feelings and opinions on the matter.
I would be interested in knowing in what way you hope them to be "wry send-up to pretense". Do you have any particular part in mind, or do you refer to the entire post?
eastwood1941 4 months ago
Part 9..
As an addenda, and as a matter of interest, Russell was not a Christian, but he inherited the Platonic-Christian intellectual tradition, and represents a form of it in extreme development and therefore in extreme decadence. His great contribution is not as a philosopher, but as a mathematician.
eastwood1941 4 months ago
@eastwood1941 I hope you're being deliberately facetious in these comments and are giving a wry send-up to pretense. Otherwise wow.. just wow.
xxcrysad3000xx 4 months ago
Part 8...
To consider idea, as the product of the intellect, more worthy of intelligent conversation than either event or people, therefore, is to expose the speaker as the heir to Plato and the following Christian tradition in his or her belief in the primacy of the intellect.
My feeling is that we must break with this tradition if we are to free the humanity that for over two millennia has been been imprisoned, bound and gagged.
eastwood1941 4 months ago
Part 7...
The intellect should be put back where it belongs, as the generator of rational thought. It is useful for problem-solving; I would not like to fix a car engine without it.
But we cannot fix life with it, as every attempt at social engineering has proved. We cannot live within the purely rational and remain sane. To attempt to do so is to resign from life, with all its absurdities and irregularities. The world of ideas is absorbing, but it is in the end a barren world.
eastwood1941 4 months ago
Part 6...
And so back to the original point. The old sore about the relative importance of ideas, events and people is based entirely on the Western Christian tradition (with its roots in Plato) that the intellect is the most important human attribute. The whole of our society is now based on this assumption.
I would challenge this by saying that the intellect over-valued, and needs to be put in its proper place. It is necessary, but should not be regarded as the leading attribute of life.
eastwood1941 4 months ago
Part 5...
And by religion, I don't mean organized religion, which I heartily detest as just another collection of dead ideas. I mean a proper reverence for life, as experienced every day, as it is lived in our relationship with others, our sexuality, our emotions and our perceptions.
Put simply, it is not fact that matters, but truth. All facts are true, but truth is a greater category than fact, and embraces both fact and that which we perceive or feel to be true.
eastwood1941 4 months ago
Part 4...
When I say that people are the only thing worth discussing, I am not talking about idle gossip, which, again, is the product of idea. I mean the essential relationship of our selves to the rest of the living world, and to one another; how we, as individuals, connect (or not) with the rest of sentient and non-sentient existence. This might be seen as a reference to philosophy, but I am inclined to think it comes closer to religion.
eastwood1941 4 months ago
Part 3...
People must have primacy, because if they did not, we would not be here to discuss either this matter or any other. Neither would there be anyone present to initiate either ideas or events.
eastwood1941 4 months ago
Part 2...
Events come and go, but underneath them nothing really changes. Also, they repeat themselves continually, with minor differences. Most events are merely contingent, are not organic, and are usually the product of ideas. The exception to this is the natural event, such as a volcanic eruption, over which we have no control.
People, on the other hand, are always with us in the sense that if they were not, there would be nobody to experience either ideas or events.
More to come..
eastwood1941 4 months ago
It's not irrelevant whether ideas are sterile or not. It's very much to the point. If we spend too much time with sterile things we make ourselves sterile. That's (gradually) what's happening to the world. Russell was a good example of such a man. Although he lived to a grand age, he had died in his soul long before. That's why he was so unhappy.
I'll have to split this reply into sections to get round the word limit...
eastwood1941 4 months ago
I believe the exact opposite is true. Ideas are sterile, dead. Events come and go. Only people, who are always with us, are worth discussing.
eastwood1941 4 months ago
@eastwood1941 That's pretty stupid, just because ideas maybe "sterile" and "dead" can still be worth discussing, whether or not their sterile or dead is irrelevant.. People come and go as well, we are not infinite.. I think you're confused, think!
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One of the most boring philosophers to have ever lived.
ToneAntone 4 months ago
@ToneAntone - You should hear him singing...! ;-)
jjvanka 4 months ago
@ToneAntone I don't find him boring at all.
Waranoa 3 months ago
@ToneAntone Boring to listen to? Certainly not boring in a general sense.
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@ToneAnote old in these video's? Yes. Booring, Hell no.
This man led all but a boring life. His thinking is as far removed from boring as can be. Not forgetting his thinking and realizations were far ahead of his time.
I'd have to say that this is a man I could talk to for days on end.
enlightendbel 3 months ago
@enlightendbel time has caught up. the "one generation" has passed.. happy now?
MrMinutemen 3 months ago
@ToneAntone ..not as boring as the rosary...
euroman32589 3 months ago
/LIKE/
MClollolol 5 months ago
He's fuckin cool.
iowntwocats 5 months ago
Hi,everybody could you help me please, i don´t understand english very well, but i like the interview is very interesting. somebody has this video whit subtitules in spanish.
Danir181 5 months ago
I like this
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TheServiceWeb 6 months ago
Bohr, Russel and Eistein must have had some good debates
Birgeyful 6 months ago
7:11 What was the remark? What did he say?
pran1zzle 7 months ago
@pran1zzle This is very nice port they've given me but why have they given it me in a claret glass. (It's funny is you're an aristocat)
SurftuftJJ 6 months ago
I would have very much liked to hit the like button on this video. Sadly it has been disabled...
skywize 8 months ago
@skywize - You told us now, and without a button. ;-)
jjvanka 8 months ago
@jjvanka I would like to like your comment but sadly, it has been disabled... :(
cazkelly 1 month ago
@cazkelly - Well, thank you! I like your hat. ;-)
jjvanka 1 month ago
I am unsure what to make of this man. Going by first impressions and appearances he seems amiable and caring. On the other hand, I was greatly disturbed, to say the least, by his writings in "The Impact of Science on Society".
imatube2 8 months ago
why are people even mentioning lady gaga on here, why acknowledge her existence, she is rubbish, just listen to bertrand
jonterranova25 9 months ago
milf
inkstersco 9 months ago
I would like to go on the record as being someone who has both added to the views of this video and to the views of "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga. It's not impossible for an intelligent person to enjoy both.
DerWhiteRabbit 9 months ago
@DerWhiteRabbit I completely agree. I have Principia Mathematica here at my desk, with Snoop Dogg in the back ground :)
bobdy9988 9 months ago
@bobdy9988 @DerWhiteRabbit What the F, guys?
martindj88 8 months ago
@martindj88 What?
bobdy9988 8 months ago
@bobdy9988 nvm, saw your avatar :)
martindj88 8 months ago
@martindj88 :P
bobdy9988 8 months ago
@bobdy9988 That's not even close to the same thing.
supahsekzy 8 months ago
@supahsekzy You stupid fucking asshole. Principia Mathematica is a work by Russell, and Snoop Dogg is a 21st Century glamorized musician, like Gaga. Shut your mouth you stupid, ignorant retard.
bobdy9988 8 months ago
@bobdy9988 I'm the retard? You completely missed my point. Snoop Dogg is a bad ass and your preference for him needs no defense. Lady Gaga on the other hand...IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE SAME THING.
You might like decent music but god you're a dumbass.
supahsekzy 8 months ago
@supahsekzy Oh ok, fair point. I thought you meant "modern music" in general. Fair point
bobdy9988 8 months ago
Thanks for posting this. Truly excellent. Oh and re the accents - its because we speak English V01.
paddyfin 10 months ago
never trust someone who got married 4 times
father042 11 months ago
The woman has such an amazing accent. This is why I think British English accent is sooo much better than American English accent.
FarhadTv 11 months ago
So sad this kind of interview gets ~165k views while "Lady" Gaga gets by factors more. There is a saying "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, simple minds discuss people." So true, don't you think so?
TheMeanEYE 11 months ago
@TheMeanEYE
Hahaha! Very well said indeed.
jjvanka 11 months ago
@TheMeanEYE
You discuss people with this statement
pieterjanbrouwer 11 months ago
@pieterjanbrouwer So are you! :)
TheMeanEYE 10 months ago
@TheMeanEYE
Well said. that is so true:)
Cochmazh 11 months ago
@TheMeanEYE Flawed minds discuss how intelligent they are.
kershawwma 10 months ago
@kershawwma And you are a fine example.
watayapupuya 9 months ago
@TheMeanEYE LOL. That is an interesting point. I do think if one is discussing people, one had better bring up interesting people, to have an interesting conversation. For example, Russell was brilliant and his actions are admirable.
nogodsexist1 10 months ago
@TheMeanEYE
However, there is another saying: "If you have a delicacy on your dish, you shouldn't look at the crumbs of the poor..."
Aberwitz88 10 months ago
@TheMeanEYE
Eh... Incidentally, I believe that you fit well in "simple minds".
Have you mentioned to Lady Gaga? lol
Aberwitz88 10 months ago
@Aberwitz88 Was that comment supposed to be funny? Cuz it definitely wasn't. Are you German or of German descent?
melTorino 9 months ago
@TheMeanEYE -Elanor Roosevelt
LilEd37 9 months ago
@TheMeanEYE Not to be an ass, but you do realize that you said that quote whilst discussing the person of Bertrand Russel, right? ;)
martini1179 9 months ago
@martini1179 Yeah. :) That was one of those "damn" moments :)
TheMeanEYE 9 months ago
@TheMeanEYE That just about hit's the nail on the head indeed.
Keep evolving...
WillKoS 9 months ago
@TheMeanEYE It's called the bell curve
barringtonthedog 9 months ago
@TheMeanEYE
So, why are we discussing people? ;)
edgeArchitect 7 months ago
@TheMeanEYE I agree it is sad. I think part of the problem is that intellectual snobs,and there are so many of them, want to keep these great minds and great ideas to themsleves and exclude the commons from them.
tubesteakZ 7 months ago
@TheMeanEYE you are discussing an event, and a person.
dylanischillinnn 6 months ago
@TheMeanEYE no not really.
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@TheMeanEYE I love that saying! I've added it as my signature at my debate site (Online Debate Network) as it's so applicable.
ApokalupsisODN 4 months ago
@TheMeanEYE I think people are much more interesting to discuss than events. And what about ideas about people? Is that a degradation of ideas? I guess "great minds" are interested in things like number theory and nothing else. Whoever made that saying is a narrow-minded idiot.
talgkjertel 4 months ago
@talgkjertel Could be, could be! :D
TheMeanEYE 4 months ago
@TheMeanEYE You hit the hail so hard on the head that it went straight through the fucking wood. I am absolutely amazed yet completely unsuprised by the lack of television programs that have actual philosophical themes like this. There's just not a single program where people just sit down and talk about this stuff. I'm glad that YouTube hosts a buttload of interviews and programs like this but the lack of modern versions is appaling.
Stygian9 4 months ago
@Stygian9 This was recorded long time ago but I agree. I don't remember when was the last time I watched television. Besides Bertrand Russell I enjoy watching Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins. Endless fun. :)
TheMeanEYE 4 months ago
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@TheMeanEYE Sounds like you are discussing people.
giantbelly 4 months ago
@TheMeanEYE eleanor roosevelt said that.
Piccolo7126 4 months ago
@TheMeanEYE
you seem to be implying you have a simple mind...
accordingly that might not have occured to you xD
hansiraber 4 months ago
@TheMeanEYE Very true!
Gymbruden 4 months ago
I'm afraid I was very...very...drunk
matthewgoose 1 year ago
1872 - 1970 ..... wow... that man had witnessed some crazy revolutions that happened in his lifetime....
alquiora 1 year ago
@alquiora And he fought for human rights through it all when most people didn't give a shit. Incredible man.
MrDarkbloom 1 year ago
sweet man
christuimbirek 1 year ago
This dude makes me laugh
760virus 1 year ago
A remarkable and great man! One of my heroes. I enjoy reading his books. Many thanks for this great clip.
surena1374 1 year ago
foolish arogant man.
keeyk118b 1 year ago
hes a rocket
danr1ch 1 year ago
@100inkersell russell's ideas and spirit, not his physical being.
EstoyLigado 1 year ago
He's too funny.. lol
lffm07 1 year ago
My fave Russell quote in is my video series..it's video "2/42"...Russell had his blunders but he certainly had his moments, but he always had an eloquent quote.
GaryGeckDotCom 1 year ago
Long live Russell!
94jmcorrea 1 year ago
Russell seems brilliant until you learn about Godel. Then he becomes laughable.
TheTypicalGirl 1 year ago
@TheTypicalGirl
What a thoughtless and arrogant comment. Both were brilliant philosophers and mathematicians; it is utterly absurd to describe Russell as 'laughable' because one of his theories was later disproved by Godel. By such ridiculous logic, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant and others would all be undeserving of respect. They are rightly revered because of their influence in the development of philosophy, not because they were ultimately right or wrong.
thompben 1 year ago
@TheTypicalGirl Id rather call Gödel laughable considering he believed in an afterlife.
Necroimpaler 1 year ago
i wish that bitch would shut up i just want to hear him talk
downcard11 1 year ago
Russell thought Hegel was a nobhead. They had a fight in 1900, about logic. Hegel said, "It is logical through principle of reason punch thou in the head" Russell lost the fight. hahaha. In a book
bobdy9988 1 year ago
Read his "Why I Am Not A Christian."
romeoechomike369 1 year ago
Someone can put english sub, o where I can find a transcript?
His accent it's hard to understand....
Thx
antiteista83 1 year ago
@antiteista83 really ? just out of interest where are from ? Scotland ?
justicelevi 1 year ago
what is chilling to me is that i am just like bertrand russell
LeonVonWolfstein 1 year ago
this guy is hillarious, creppy, and terrifying all at once.
TheNewport2009 1 year ago
@TheNewport2009 How come man? I think I know what you mean....
bobdy9988 1 year ago
Proud to be British.
ExtremeBogom 1 year ago
There's peace amongst prisoners in filthy cells. There's peace in Chinese orphanages whereat the children are tied to their beds & chairs. The cemetery is a peaceful place as are shark-infested waters once all the sailors have been eaten. Justice entails fair-play, property rights, privacy, self-sovereignty.
ScientificalnessUSA 1 year ago
"Russell was a eugenicist"
So were many people of the era. Most people pre-1945 were racist and anti-semetic too. A hundred years before Russell lots of people thought slavery was a-okay and before that it was natural for Kings and Nobles to rule and that commoners were born dirty.
Fifty years from now who knows what viewpoints will be held as backwards.
I doubt there is any famous hsitorical figure who didn't think someone we regard as backwards today.
SerPinkKnight 1 year ago
@SerPinkKnight but eugenics arent bad and they are still a main concern today
mjufpn 1 year ago
I love Bertrand. He's so badass.
katyc130890 1 year ago
redoler 1 year ago
Bertrand Russell was a game old defiant and lucid anti-establishmentarian.
They don't make them like that any more.
Thanks to original poster jjvanka for making this available.
Russell was wispy-white haired Trafalgar Square CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) protester, before Michael Foot.
Viewing this footage, I'd say that he had the confidence of assurance. Imparting no negative vibes. And also talking tremendous sense.
Thanks again for posting. Kind regards.
redoler 1 year ago
It never changes- At the heart of every Atheist is his desire to have no accountability for sexual deviances and perversity. Oh what a tangles web we weave when we at first seek to deceive.
whiteliketar 1 year ago
@whiteliketar all life exists first and foremost to pass on its genes and perpetuate itself. Sex is the method of that perpetuation. The reason sex feels so pleasureable is fairly obvious to grasp as an evolutionary outcome.
Sex is the most important thing we do - we are compelled to do - and the pleasure of it is one of the aspects which helps better facilitate the activity.
The notions of deviance and pervesity are nonsense with sex between viable partners. Your views of sex are ignorant.
GraeHall 1 year ago
didn't bertrand russell support eugenics?
equallyeasilyfuqyou 1 year ago
Alguien tiene una versión subtitulada de este video? Por favor!
luisaraujodramaturgo 1 year ago
Bertrand Russell is a dirty Eugenicist..........The mark of a noble man is a man who uses his gifts for the overall betterment of humanity.......Russell's idea was to eliminate the "unfit" because they were scum, unworthy of life............Russell is the real piece of scum!
ChiefClickClack 1 year ago
@ChiefClickClack well, wouldn't eliminating the unfit result in the betterment of humanity? less people to feed, less resources used, less unwanted pregnancies and broken families that dont provide love to their children.. who end up fucked up children, join gangs, and then repeat the process. doesnt he have a point? not that i agree with it at all, but its got a degree of truth in it
junskey 1 year ago
@ChiefClickClack
You have clearly never read even a sentence of any of Russell's work. He spent a good deal of his life campaigning against such ideology in both words and deeds. Even in his appraisal of Plato, in History of Western Philosophy, he makes clear the abomination of such practices.
Please, produce even a morsel of evidence that Russell was a Eugenicist, or else back off.
ultraviolet99 1 year ago
@ChiefClickClack No. Check your facts. He was a tireless antiwar lobbyist, and an advocate of the less privileged. Don't just repeat things without checking their validity! It makes you look stupid.
sbergman27 1 year ago
Our progressive evolution is dependent upon the collapse of our current society with the opportunity of rebuilding a new world based on sustainable foundation that is in harmony with the planet.. Only with complete transparancy wiil we be able to chart a more viable future for humanity. Quantum physics emphasizes a fundamental truth the" observer creates the world". Once we share the planet as ONE HUMAN COMMUNITY IN COOPERATION can the entire population make history consciously
arzoyan 1 year ago
Our world is hostage to the insatiable rampaging of the ruling class private gain and greed, dominating,dehumanising,devaluing everyone and everything in the midst. We can and must change the wage slavery of immense humanity in a market system of artificial scarcity . We can share the world for our common needs and well being in harmony within and without.
arzoyan 1 year ago
Everyone ought to read the Principia like a work of art, simply to appreciate the sheer brain power invested into it.
infantileretard 1 year ago
love him
johnnyd101 1 year ago
i hate the fast show
matchbox555 1 year ago
death to the new world order. search new world order.
d1deej 1 year ago
Let us celebrate our illustrious/industrious/infamous/notorious eugenicists Maggy Sanger, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Konrad Lorenz, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Darwin, Teddy Roosevelt, Barry Soetoro. There has always been crowding. Too many people in an apartment house, on a bus, on a plane. Population reduction begins with you.
SufferInJuly 1 year ago
@SufferInJuly i look forward to reading your books on this and other important matters
dyansister 1 year ago
@SufferInJuly Always good to hear from the mushy-headed crackpot faction on these videos.
ultraviolet99 1 year ago
this guy kind of sux but I liked his Neitzche vs Buddha argument
gwhendri 1 year ago
WOW. I hadn't realized that film and the life of the great Russell overlapped!
iamthewalrusQ 1 year ago
does anyone know what the music on here is?
stevemarlet 1 year ago
@stevemarlet
Tune from the overture 'Les Francs-Juges' [Berlioz, Frank Chacksfield orchestra]
jjvanka 1 year ago
What is the music at the start please?
stevemarlet 1 year ago
...of course, I was very, very drunk.
JohnColt 1 year ago
he shouldnt have thinkered with philosophy.. he would have been a great mathematician.
PatrickLars 1 year ago
@GBfuryattacks Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead coauthored a book, or rather an intended series of books, entitled "Principia Mathematica," which had as its aim the execution of the logicist program, namely, demonstrating that all pure mathematics (Cf. Russell's "Principle of Mathematics" for a definition of "pure mathematics") could be deduced from a small set of logical axioms. That is, Russell and Whitehead intended to show that pure mathematics is in fact logic.
PErdosOne 1 year ago
haha "and i was in the wolfs stomach and not in heaven" I really love that mind
jrussell772 1 year ago
where is a world now... and what it could really be...... sad....
TheAtheistworld 1 year ago
First thanks jjvanka....He was a lovely man,I read many of his books as a young man and thoroughly enjoyed them.I have no idea what idiocy most of these comments represent but they bear little resemblance to Philosophical observation.Russel was a creature of and from his Time and place ,there is no reason to apologise on his behalf.A great thinker and Humanitarian
duboisdvoleur 1 year ago
google Doe's Account, mindblowing.
Nevyfling 1 year ago
Does anyone else think that Bertrand Russell could have been the model for Darth Sidious' speaking style?
(That's the Emperor in Return of the Jedi).
They sound eerily similar, especially when saying words like "wicked" or "evil".
nemirn 1 year ago
@nemirn ur absolutely right!