Stephen Fry - Hay Sessions 2009 1/6

Part 1 of 6

Stephen Fry talks to Peter Florence at the Hay Festival (in Hay-On-Wye) in May 2009 about life, politics, America and culture.

Leads off with discussion about President Obama and the change of perception he brings to America from abroad. SF also discusses how Obama is a reminder of what America really stands for.

The rhetoric of Obama leads to a discussion of Fry's discovery of his love of language.

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[TenderHistoryInRust]

what liberal trite - The reps and dems are exactly the fucking same, representatives of the worst Imperialist dirty filthy big business capitalist scum.

[Kaelisra440]

@TenderHistoryInRust

Oh look, a Marxist that's taking advantage of all the gifts given by western Capitalist society.

You can stop using the internet for a start, you hypocritical fucking moron.

[langsense]

@Kaelisra440

as I told tender, please keept it clean!

[langsense]

@TenderHistoryInRust

Wash your mouth out please!

[spazzing]

Well there's so many wonderful things to say about Stephen, but I love his green socks!

[CMalburn]

Yes, but he's intelligent enough not to want to go into politics!

[Nazzz65]

God help us....

[test123ok]

Such a pleasure to listen to this man

[misslittlebear118]

hay is pubic hair

[adi87tya]

@cmurphy2826 Personally, I don't think Obama is a visionary either. However, after 8 years of "We're going to stay the course", "We'll fight them there so they don't fight us here", and "I'm the decider", Obama is a relief.

[LosDTenaces]

he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

[cmurphy2826]

@owenhunt I didn't mean the deification of politics, I meant the deification of politicians or of government itself. Politics is a necessary discourse and is something I feel every citizen should be interested in and involved with. I think the idea that politicians are angels or heroes sent down from on high inspires the worst kind of apathy, which is to assume that the government and politicans always have your best interests at heart and that there is no need to keep an eye on them.

[ChrisCoCompany]

@TenderHistoryInRust You're a very unhappy bunny, aren't you

[owenhunt]

@cmurphy2826 The demonisation of politics is far more troubling, it leads to disinterest and apathy, whereby a population is subject to partisan politics running riot with rights and wellfare legislature.

[owenhunt]

@Kaelisra440 Whether in a Capitalist or Communist society, the creation of something as phenomenal as the internet took funding. If British industrialists flocked to Russia in the ninteenth century and was in need of Eastern advances in warfare technology in WW2, then Russia would have been home to the internet's creation and inception. As British history is littered with, as Benjamin Disraeli recommended, people who "wait their time", American history is littered with luck and chance-taking.

[Konstiin]

@Kaelisra440 someone who clearly hasn't read marx speaking.