Lions and Cannibals (Part II)

[unclealand]

Even Susan Sontag could make mistakes.

[jsmithers87]

Full interview on pbs.org

[nicholasjameswisdom]

Where's the rest?

[StLennyBruce]

Too bad the interviewer talked so much. It would've been cool to hear more of their thoughts.

[sebastianquilt]

Ironic that the camp of intellegentsia of today is in antithesis to the views of these women. I think I enjoy the hosts comments more. And, yes, on a personal note I think all high art is not high at all.

[coolioto]

what is the camp of intelligentsia?

[marcolopolis55]

I doubt you know what you are talking about, so it is best you don't say anything at all.

[dancewomyn1]

I wish I could see the rest of this...It's great!

[bobtheantman1]

@dancewomyn1 I completely agree. I have looked elsewhere for the rest of this discussion, without any luck. Susan Sontag is indispensible, I recommend her books to anyone interested in things that make us human.

[oslo1893]

would be great to see the rest of this

[smurfieboo]

was susan sontag a heavy smoker?

[divinafan2]

she smoked for most of her life but managed to quit a few years before she died.

[manatsunoshi]

@smurfieboo i think almost everyone smoked in the sixties-seventies

[forgibas]

It's amazing to think that this interviewer was being genuine and relfective of society and conventions.

[bobtheantman1]

@forgibas The interviewer made it clear that he was speaking as a devil's advocate for the larger bourgeois society who had been challenged by the film and by Sontag in her critique of art and literature.

[hotwlmf]

She went to stage free performances of "Waiting for Godot" while Sarajevo was under siege, largely to draw attention to the West's slowness in intervening and stopping the bloodshed. I'm not quite sure how that makes her actions pro-"islamofascist" rather than just antiwar.

[FSTA54]

want to chat with singles

great vid WQ

[wilsparky]

Whilst reading "Unholy Terror" by John R. Schindler (who worked for the NSA as an intelligence analyst) he referred to this Susan Sontag's sojourn in Sarajevo. She put plays on and he noted the incogruity of the PR job that a Lesbian liberal did for an embryonic, islamofascist government headed by a friend of Bin Laden, Alija Izetbegovic. Schindler used her as a good example of how the western, liberal, celebrity driven media were duped into supporting a regime which advocated beheading. Ironic

[theemonumental]

Now now. If you make a COHERENT statement people might engage with you.

[CondorFlyingHigh]

Who knows, maybe Schlinder was right. But let's hope Susan Sontag's time in Sarajevo left a mark on the Bosnians. At a time when Muslims were being butchered by the thousands and Sarajevo was being strangled and Clinton hesitated on whether to intervene or not, she was one of the few Westerners eager to build bridges to the Eastern world.

[benj008]

this shows that youtube is'nt just about bored people's shit...

I've actually used it in my studies... thank you youtube!

[ElFrankus]

Is this the only Susan Sontag on Youtube??

[partygirlvox]

It's ridiculous, this is the only half decent thing I can find! (thankyou, whoever uploaded this by the way!)

[TrentBrad]

And then there was YouTube.

[Andreox]

Is there a part III??