William Buckley Interviews Norman Mailer on Firing Line (1968) Part 4
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@ashburnhouse I've never read Mailer, just based on his reputation as a person. Maybe I'm missing out?
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@headstock48 Exactly.
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Oh, God. Anyone who's ever earned an undergrad degree has read Marx. Big deal.
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4:52 eyes
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@pumkinpi2 Haha, ya. Buckey sure was a gem. I am sure Charlatans like Mailer didn't allow themselves to be interviewed by the man twice.
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@xtrmsprts Both men had their knives out. It counts in their favor that they still had a conversation, even as they despised the ideas of the other. I wish we saw more of this today, and less of the habit of shouting down an opposing point of view, or resorting to mockery.
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@countertreason It was nice to see Mailer asked to defend his babbling attempts at being an oracle. Usually he was interviewed by fawning sympathizers, even them he was able to be disagreeable. I rather agree with Hitchens' observation that a man writes as he speaks. In that, I wonder at Mailer's success. Then again, a certain part of our society has always been easily entertained, as long as the dancing dog on stage circles to the Left.
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@darkcowboyhero Does the fact that the world is not black and white detract from the fact that Castro is a murder a thousand times over, and a despot? Are these not condemnation enough for any man, that rightfully put him past praise? No extreme view of mailer's words are needed to find them indefensible.
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jerry,
i think he was poking at buckley's views on the catholic church.
the whole interview seems to be a passive aggressive circus...
so much more interesting than celebrity interviews these days
sd62t833 2 years ago 4
I'm very surprised Buckley doesn't assert that he *has* read Marx.
For anyone who would be any kind of social theorist or political thinker, Marx is flatly inescapable.
Perhaps he has indeed read Marx and simply doesn't wish to be bothered to provide an explanation for those who would find this curiously incongruous.
It is after all astonishing how many people don't understand that attention does not imply approval; I once got a nasty look from a public librarian for checking out Mein Kampff.
polymath7 2 years ago 3