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  • I supposed he's pissed Orwell wrote 1984 before him and cheated him out of all that money.

  • @NorthNorth2009 yeah, that must be it, you've figured him out, you've solved the world riddle.

  • Please listen to 1984 audio available on youtube. 40 parts. A a very powerful piece of work. G.Orwell a master of the English fiction.

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  • I just jizzed myself. Having read Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air and Keep the Aspidistra Flying all on my own accord after discovering Orwell, seeing Christopher talking about these novels just sent me through the roof. I could burn my house down with happiness.

  • @Zimnyification And I actually plan on reading the rest of his works, plus two anthologies of Orwell's narrative and critical essays. He's like a god.

  • you, sir, are no george orwell.

  • @alx90x I like how he says its encouraging that Orwell wasn't a genius with average integrity and intelligence. He obviously thinks he's smarter than Orwell. What can you expect from someone who adores Trotsky and Marx and supports the PNAC agenda?

  • @TiMMYSQUibbLES I absolutely agree...I for one think Orwell was not only a better writer than Hitchens (if they can even be talked about seriously in the same sentence, let alone compared), but actually more intelligent. I'm sure Hitchens would beg to differ.

  • @modularmaster Hitchins ego would ejaculate prematurely like a virgin in bed on prom night. lol

  • @modularmaster I have to draw public attention to your stupidity, for your benefit as much as my satisfaction. Did you actually listen to this interview? Hitchens himself denies any ambition to take Orwell's mantle.

    Secondly, you haven't read Hitchens - no-one who does can fail to be impressed with his clarity of mind and literary ability. Unless of course they are themselves less than literate.

  • That thing he said about reading Orwell as compared to Proust, Nabokov, or Eliot was absolutely true. I remember reading "Lolita" and thinking "wow, this is kind of interesting and all, but it really doesn't inspire me that much". Orwell on the other hand.....well let's just say I agree with Hitchens 100%. You get the same feeling reading Orwell that you get reading Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

  • why orwell matters great book

  • why orwell matter is a great book

  • With historical revisionist Hitchens: Perversity = Compassion. His desire for a planetary government founded & run by Luciferians & eugenicists won't be a family-friendly paradise.

  • @Asparagusville Luciferians and eugenicists? Hitchen makes no allusions to either of these belief systems. You are a small minded plagiarist to draw such conclusions.

  • @rooflee : Have an adult read to you.

  • @Asparagusville Rather a pointless reply. But I'm not surprised by it.

  • [Part Two] operation of these factors new species not only have been produced but organisms of widely differing groups may have arisen from common ancestors; broadly : biological evolution -- compare EVOLUTION 5b NEO=DARWINISM; LAMARCKISM, MUTATION [Fr. pps. 575-6 of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary -- 1967]

  • Orwell had "average...intelligence"? as much as I admire Hitchens, that's ridiculous

  • @oomploomp Rediculous indeed. The reasons Hitchen mentioned to why he infers that Orwell's intelligence level is no more than average are not the best indicators to assess someone's intelligence with. Those reasons are Orwell "never went to a univerisity, never had a steady job, or publisher".

  • And through this portal (hidden within this pot-hole): We have the dabbler in homosexual deviance, the eugenics' quean Chrissy Hitchens, on his high horse proclaiming that George Orwell was of common intellect.

  • he says orwell had average intelligence? that he was not a genius? hitchens, pull your head out of your arse

  • Obscurantist/plagiarist/histor­ical revisionist Christopher (bearer of Christ) Hitchens supports the eugenic policies of the modern-day Western World: carbon taxes (which'll double the price of grain); abortion (infanticide/genocide); endless warfare (as Orwell had warned in "1984"); confiscatory taxation; Zero Population Growth; "atheism"/Darwinism (the denigration of personhood/self-sovereignty) & internationalism (planetary govt.). If anyone is then surely: he's deserving of deportation.

  • @TheFutureUnquiet genocide and infanticide? go to the bible for references and brutal details. atheism is NOT evolution and there is NO SUCH THING AS "DARWINISM" how many times do we have to tell you people this.

  • [Part Two] operation of these factors new species not only have been produced but organisms of widely differing groups may have arisen from common ancestors; broadly : biological evolution -- compare EVOLUTION 5b NEO=DARWINISM; LAMARCKISM, MUTATION [Fr. pps. 575-6 of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary -- 1967]

  • hes growing weed behind him lol

  • Hitchens = fake opposition = gatekeeper

  • Orwell was a luddite. As Marx pointed out, the luddite puts the emphasis on the mode rather than the means of production. Capitalism, Communism & Fascism all have one thing in common: they are all technocracies in one form or another & Orwell hated them all.

  • @bondurango They have many things in common. The endgame of all of them involve total complacancy of the general public. It always unravels in the end, though. At a certain point, the general public wake up after being lulled for ages, much like what is happening in china now, the internet being the catalyst. the oposite happening ever so slowly in the united states because Bush decided to push forward with the agenda too quickly, using 9/11 as a catalyst for furthering the rightwing agenda.

  • @TheFutureUnquiet Your comment is bad and you should feel bad.

  • @TheFutureUnquiet If you can't stand defeat , stay out of the Kitch hens.

  • I'm a fan of Orwell but asimov has some good criticism of Orwell's work:

    Google:

    "REVIEW OF 1984

    By Isaac Asimov"

  • are you kidding me? Orwell aligned himself with no one - he was 'socialist' only in spirit after the spanish civil war - hitchens was right about orwell taking down imperialism-stalinism-fascism all at once -

  • Orwell was not just socialist in mind. He was a assured marxist. And yes, Orwell took opposition to all of those forces.

  • Hitchens is not even remotely aligned with neocons. The problem with political discourse in the US is solidified in your statement.

    There is no left or the right, just different arms of the same machine. Hitchens doesn't play to those games. He takes a realistic approach to foreign policy, based on fact and real world experience. He has been on the ground and witness and analyzed a lot of the world, and as such can make remarkably honest indictments of its realities.

    That impresses me.

  • Exactly and well said sir. The readyness, willingness and in fact, desperate need to label one especially in political spheres in the United States is rather troubling. It is simplistic and foolish, afaic, to suggest he is a neocon simply because he backed the intervention.

  • @megalman1 Well said!

  • @megalman1

    So he's a liberal mugged by reality? Why does that sound familiar?

  • @megalman1 I don't have anything about Hitches; he's done some great work - trials of henry Kissinger and his analysis of Mother Teresa come to mind. But one cannot forget the fact that he supported the war in Iraq, showed a great deal of arrogance and contempt towards Chomsky (who knows way more than him) and held, probably still does, racist views. I mean, I don't dislike the guy, but it seems that he has a penchant promoting for counter cultural thoughts in order to look "cool" or something.

  • @megalman1 In my opinion, anyone who aligns themselves with an ideology and says, "I believe everything that X says about politics, religion, the economy etc." should never be taken seriously. Such people have no real opinions of any worth. Thats why I love Hitchens

  • @megalman1 A realistic approach to foreign policy is not perpetual warfare that is funded by the Federal Reserve and China.

  • @megalman1 "He takes a realistic approach to foreign policy, based on fact and real world experience. " CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS???? THIS MAN? This man who enthusiastically supported the American-led war in Iraq? The same war which was trumped up on dubious charges? This man, who remained unapologetic about the war even after its colossal failure could no longer be denied? This man, who “attacked” Kissinger, but was just as big of a warmonger? That impresses you? Cool.....
  • @malma1 George von Gorgeous sorted that out.

  • fuck the dark ages

  • woah woah woah.....this stuff isnt importnt what is.....is that christopher hitchens has good sence of style. lol

  • So basically, get an education, stop using childish insults, learn to notice the irony of telling someone to get smart whilst ignoring the points they made and making comments showing your lack of intelligence. Oh and check out the hypocracy of calling me a negative person in the same comment where you called me an asshole. I backed up my points aimed at you, you are just flinging them round like a 12 year old. Grow up. Oh and seriously, you dont believe in evolution? That is just hilarious!

  • Right so I should get smart enough to be like you and believe in an invisible man in the sky and not know about any history? Or know about many countries either by the sound of things as countries like Japan, Denmark, Sweden etc are mostly religion free and have some of the lowest crime rates and largest political freedoms in the world. Above US and UK .

    Statistically the group most likely to be religious which has been shown in countless studies is the least educated of society.

  • Uhuh..remember a period in history where religion was viewed as the most important part of a man and womans life? Remember what it was like? Remember what it was called? The dark ages, get an education and maybe one day you can take a few steps towards not making a complete fool of yourself.

  • Haha!

    Like Japan or Sweden..?

    Gotta say if your an American then those two countries have far less serious problems in terms of murder rates, divorce, crime.. etc

    In fact it's more like the opposite, if you look at the Roman Catholic church of the middle ages & the archaic regimes of some arab countries then you can see that a theocracy is very similar to the Big Brother (god) scenario of 1984..

  • Atheism doesn't lead in any particular direction.

  • Who is the smug, matey prick interviewing him?

  • Prick?? Duude, the guys prolly shitting his pants just trying to keep it 2gether interviewing a kat a fuckin cool as Christopher Hitchens. Goddamn, everytime he speaks, my fuckin brain swells, AND I LOVE IT!!!!!

  • yes Well Done that man.

  • 02:30 Orwell managed to disprove Imperialism, Stalinism and Fascism in one lifetime.

    Thank you!

  • Orwell was a proud Trotskyist and men like him are few and far between,

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