Albert Camus's “The Human Crisis” read by Viggo Mortensen, 70 years later
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2016
- 00:20 Introduction by Shanny Peer, Director of the Maison Française
05:35 Introduction by Alice Kaplan, Professor of Yale University
11:50 Reading of 'The Human Crisis' by Viggo Mortensen
56:50 Discussion with Viggo Mortensen, Alice Kaplan and Souleymane Bachir Diagne
On April 28, 2016 a reading by Viggo Mortensen of a speech by Albert Camus, and roundtable discussion with Viggo Mortensen, Alice Kaplan and Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Albert Camus originally delivered this lecture on “La Crise de l’homme” on March 28, 1946, to a very full house at the McMillin Academic Theatre at Columbia University, on his first and only trip to the United States. 70 years later, to celebrate Camus’s visit to New York and Columbia, his lecture will be delivered in a dramatic reading by the actor Viggo Mortensen, in a version newly translated into English by Alice Kaplan.
The event will be introduced by Shanny Peer and by Alice Kaplan, who will share new research from her forthcoming book, Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic, to bring alive Camus’ U.S. visit and provide a context for his lecture. After the reading, Bachir Diagne and Alice Kaplan will be joined by Viggo Mortensen for a panel discussion about Albert Camus’ influence, his impressions of the U.S., and his reception in this country as a leading voice of the postwar generation of French intellectuals.
Participants: Viggo Mortensen has consistently earned acclaim for his work in a wide range of films. Some of these include Jauja, Loin des hommes, The Two Faces of January, A Dangerous Method, The Road, Eastern Promises, Appaloosa, A History of Violence, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He has received various nominations and awards from groups including the Screen Actors Guild, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Apart from acting in movies and plays, Mortensen is a poet, photographer, and painter. He founded and is the editor of Perceval Press, an independent publishing house specializing in poetry, photography, painting, and critical writing.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and French and Chair, Department of French, Columbia University.
Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French and chair of the Department of French at Yale University.
This event is organized in partnership with The Albert Camus Estate and is part of a series of events taking place in New York on the theme of "Camus : A Stranger in the City" (March 26 - April 19 / @camusnyc2016) commemorating the 70th year anniversary of Camus’ visit to the United States.
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I believe that Camus was once quoted as saying " there are many things worth dying for but nothing worth killing for " I always found that a powerful statement.
I would kill to protect my family, wouldn't you? If you would like a much better read than Camus, in my opinion, try Falun Gong. If Campus went number one, then there would be no p in his name.
@@jeffforsythe9514 Agreed. I would never kill to protect property, but protecting the innocent is another matter.
@@jeffforsythe9514 that would fall under the category of “dying for” because by putting yourself in harms way to save your family you risk your own life. The context behind this scenario are heroism courage and bravery. Facets of something worth dying for.
On the matter of killing. Murder alone connotes violence and depravity. Killing is the absence of any virtue. Therein lies the difference.
My two cents.
@@KQSZLOK The Golden Rule is a good start..............falundafa
@@KQSZLOK take the quote at face value. It's meant exactly as it's put. The idiot actually saw nothing worth killing another human being over, even in defense of an innocent. I loved his fiction, but Albert had some pretty stupid views.
Viggo was perfectly cast as Aragorn. He is incredibly, flawlessly masculine with a tender, kind and moral heart
and he has a hell of a hog
And also, the man speaks five languages
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Is he in the Liam Neeson/James Woods/Michael Fassbender Club?
What’s funny is that even to this day, Peter Jackson calls Viggo’s casting a “gift from God”; they actually started shooting Fellowship without having an Aragorn, and Viggo basically came out of nowhere and blew it out of the park
LOTR had so many opportunities to become a terrible series, and yet it survived. Just incredible
Beyond well said
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time "
Sad!
Lecture starts at 16:22
Thanks
thanks bud jisus
This is what I wanted to know.
But it's worth hearing the background.
Gracias
What's good about Viggo reading this is that he is genuinely interested and is a regular sort of guy - the kind of intellectual Camus was trying to touch always. And for this he has a great non pretentious speaking voice - this is so very important, don't you agree - it's good that he's nervous.
I think he speaks about 7 languages too he's just a regular guy in your opinion?
@@AnnaLVajda yeah, why not
I get what you mean by an ordinary guy...Really the most amazing and accomplished ppl are much more (or maybe only become) impressive as this, when you are humble and authentic. A puffed up, braggart, regardless of past accomplishments, just can't deliver something like this in a way that really reaches many people. He could be a d*ck, I don't know, but he knows he would rather come across as having heart and soul than a long list of movies on his IMDB page.
@@empathagain I just think that of all subjects, Camus is something you have to be into to want to be into doing a speech - and he's a bit nervous, uses his skills to deliver after awhile, but it's that Camus is so very human in its nature, like Sartre, or other absurdist existentialist stuff like that, you know. You would have to be smart enough to not be an a**hole, or even pseudointellectual. Or rather, wise enough to be humble about that he probably knows a bit about a subject of the most respected French scholars, actually more like a guilty pleasure of scholars. Or - it could be that they hired him to do a job, but he comes off as pretty regular. I could be wrong. I mean, I don't know, like bodhidharma said.
@@AnnaLVajda lol easssy there, he just comes across as very normal and humble, so I would say it’s a compliment when ppl see him as such, speaks that he’s genuinely humble. He’s always been my role model, the male archetype.
never thought i'd be listening to aragorn reading camus for fun but here we are
edit: this was 2 years ago. i did an A-Level in philosophy for fun a few years ago but i no longer care about that or aragorn if I'm honest, please chill guys lmao.
Aragorn & Tonylip 😁🗡
yup. our times.
Aragorn is a smart guy 😉
I do not trust this 'Ranger' from the North...
@@w5winston We got a problem wanna tough guy???
"Man has dominated man to his injury".... undeniably true.
To be able to have access to presentations such as this is truly one of the great gifts of our times.
You’ve truly understood nothing 😬
My dear ,
In the midst of hate , I found there was , within me , an invincible love ,
In the midst of tears , I found there was , within me , an invincible smile ,
In the midst of chaos , I found there was , within me , an invincible calm ,
I realized , through it all , that in the midst of winter , I found there was , an invincible summer , and that makes me happy , for it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me , within me , there's something stronger , something better , pushing right back ,
Yours truly ,
Albert Camus
Philosopher of the Absurd
It's so blessedly cathartic to know that someone else got it. That someone else recognized the value in an imperfect struggle towards utopia. That another person understood the dehumanizing nature of bureaucracy and the way that systems strive at all times to pit some of us against the rest to keep us separated in our hearts and minds.
Very interesting speech.
Beautifully said
So relevant
Very well stated much thanks.
A speach for the ages.
I am confused..
The idea of an achievable utopia is in itself reason for the othering and dehumanisation of people who would oppose the perceived current path to perfection.
Am I missing something? To me it sounds like the usual french intellectualism, shallow and naive
Albert Camus delivered this lecture on “La Crise de l’homme” in 1946 at Columbia University, on his only trip to the United States. The lecture itself is from 18:45 - 56:35 in this video, and is presented in English translation. I recommend it wholeheartedly. It is relevent on many levels to the present situation, and while Camus spoke from the perspective of a 32-year-old Frenchman in the wake of WWII, his clarity and insight embody a kind of timeless wisdom.
Wisdom is aquired through suffering...................falundafa.
You’re a hero for putting the time stamp. Thank you
He read this 7 months before the presidential election in the US...perhaps he should have read it again a few years later!
El Sr. Camus fue un hombre íntegro,auténtico, inteligentisimo y que lucho por medio de sus dones la unica batalla que vale la pena: la batalla por la redención de la humanidad. Sin duda murio sin ninguna mancha que avergonzara su honestidad. Lamentablemente nosotros tal vez moriremos con la pesadumbre del pesimista que nunca es defraudado por una sociedad decadente y sin valores.
Masters and Slaves
It’s incredible how a lot of what he’s talking about from 80 years ago seems so similar to today like how indifferent people are to others suffering and how everyone has an urge of rebellion
It’s no suprise at if “everything changed but human nature”
Touche and I agree.
We are kept in that constant so we don't rise up.
We are members of the kingdom of animals....Violent, Murderous Homo Sapiens. Can any doctrine or hierarchy control us?
@@futavadumnezo no, humans are just too stupid to stop being assholes to each other. This species thrives on it
I found my splendid naivety at the age of 18. Anything was possible everything was available. After a series of shocks in 2021 I have restarted reading Camus to rebuild my self. A body of work worthy of everyone's attention.✌🏽❤️
“ The beast is dead but the venom isn’t gone “
Very eye opening 👍The plague is my next read
It is incredibly one of my favourite books if you like Camus I would recommend the stranger and the fall if you haven't read them already I just finished the myth of Sisyphus and it's great but it's quit hard to read and understand I think
@@kostisdedes4175 yes, I just read the Stranger 😊❤️. Very nice. Last night I started on The plague
@@kostisdedes4175 I've taken to writing short summaries of each paragraph with my personal commentary just to make sense of The Myth of Sisyphus. Read the first section and felt like the slow kid in class without doing that.
@@flyingofdays I know right and the thing is that I'm Greek and the copy of the myth of Sisyphus I could find in Greek is not that well translate so it's even more confusing and I don't know how much of the books content is lost in translation
The Beast 666 was Karl Marx. The result today is found in Godless Communist China. The evil CCP has executed 80 million of it's own people since 1949.
Viggo's voice perfectly portrays the clarity & depth in the thoughts of Camus,a man without faith who hopelessly holds up hope in the midst of despair.
Faith in God is of the upmost importance. falundafa.
beautifully said
I did. I also questioned the sincerity of their God-given inaluable rights…
@@jeffforsythe9514 please no
But Camus said that "our task is to live without hope"...
Viggo is a proud product of Watertown in Northern New York. He is also a graduate of St Lawrence University. What you see is what you get with this man and it is so fitting that he is reading Camus’s work. Viggo is a very kind, unassuming, a truly down to earth and very intelligent gentleman to say nothing of his amazing performances as an actor. Thank you Viggo. We in the North Country are so proud of you. God Bless!
He sure is a very proud product of Watertown and has never let his success go to his head. He speaks at least 5 languages and I’ve often wondered if he picked up the tribes dialect in Hidalgo; also one of his great movies which oftentimes is never mentioned. I believe he bought the horse that he rode in the film. 👍
@@patriciakelley4125 I noted that his excellent French accent, for sure.
@@patriciakelley41257 languages at last count
Albert Camus will always be my favourite author. Honesty is everything.
Viggo is a phenomenal human being. We are fortunate to have this multi talented individual share his talents with the world.
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Gotta love Viggo.
And he voted for Jill Stein. No war criminals or haters for Viggo !!!
*thank you Sandra Carlson for articulating same for all of us*
My friends dad works security for athletes and movie stars and said that Viggo is the nicest guy he’s ever met. Apparently he’s a super sweet and genuine guy
Multilingual, too.
@@CheyennefromTaos did feed cc xx .
This kind of clarity and pertinence is so rare in political philosophy
And it shows!
Politics and wisdom should not be placed in the same sentence. Wisdom is aquired only through suffering which makes me take back my words because listening to politicians is a form of suffering........falundafa.
@@jeffforsythe9514 being “mad” at politicians in general is an adolescent take
@@vervor I am just aware that politicians, journalists and lawyers are the bain of existance. I practice truthfulness-compassion-tolerance ...................falundafa
I think that's because political philosophy is inherently concerned with advancing an idea or justifying a value program. Relevance is only useful to political philosophy in its capacity to attract fresh minds to impress upon.
Apolitical philosophy is more concerned with personal enlightenment and the advancement of humanity as a whole. It has a vital need to be relevant because the second it falls out of step with modern thinking, it ceases to be an effective way of organizing and espousing ideas.
I think the expression, just doing my job or following orders, is/are still today the cause of a great deal of pain.
Just got up and yesterday I was looking for some audiobooks (Camus too).
Now I wake up to VIGGO reading Camus.
Oh boy, so awesome
Not that hard to figure out really. Everything you do on your phone or computer is monitored by internet algorithms.
The book Falun Gong is full of wisdom.
In 1974 I was 8 years old and living in Paris with my family. My dad was an art professor and had received a sabbatical to study in Paris. Our landlords, the Tweedies; Michael from England and Odile from France, became friends with mom and dad. One day Odile asked dad if he could help a friend of hers move books. My dad said yes and helped. At the end of helping out he heard Odile say something to Madame Camus. Dad was speechless. He later asked Mrs. Tweedie about the woman. Odile said that she was Albert Camus' second wife. I happened to be with dad during this time and don't remember what happened. I was interested in the adventure of those days and of being 8 years old; not so much into Albert Camus. I have begun learning and reading about Albert Camus. I do not always know if I understand what I am reading correctly but feel that if dad thought he was something, then something he was. Thank you for bringing up a memory of childhood, art, philosophy and freedom of beliefs.
Wow!
I feel so content now , words of Albert Camus presented by my favourite actor😌
Today was one of the rare times that UA-cam recommanded at least 3 random videos which actually had anything to do with using your mind and appreciate the work of intellectual individuals.🤔👍
Yes, it came up, apparently randomly, for me, too. But I imagine algorithms at playing a part. If they go on recommending this quality of vid, I'm not going to complain!
and now I'm going to go read as many as the works of Camus as possible. Thanks for this!!
Ellie Lindsey The Fall is my personal favorite. Though The Stranger I've read dozens of times
Don’t forget the essays, esp. the Lyrical ones.
Very un Amerikan of u....MOst Amerikan are quite proud of their ignorance....weave it like a banner.... The stars and stripes are but a statement of manifest ignorance....
"The Myth of Sisyphus"
Be sure to read his journals. I believe there are three, I have two, but they are hilarious. His lyrical essays are good to read on a trip like on the train, and his books, start with the stranger, you can read it in a day and think about it forever - it's very accessible - easy to read overly simple and the story is so strange you love the character. And if you look close - it is utterly hilarious - I mean it would make a brilliant black comedy as a movie.
"Just as we all consecrate and justify murder and terror when we have the temerity to think that everything is meaningless." That sentence grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go
I love Viggo, one of the best actor, painter, writter and photographer of this era.
Magnificently poignant, a timeless literary work of art. Camus' words not only captures the mind but the very soul. Amazingly relevant today as it was when first spoken in 1946.
Truly a man of peace which the planet at these times desperately needs.
Lucifer has ruled here for centuries but no one seemed to notice.
@@jeffforsythe9514 lmao
@@jeffforsythe9514 Mr Bright Side
Truly wonderful. A rare reminder of how the Internet can bring enlightenment in this celebrity obsessed age of reality tv, video games and super hero movies. Thank you.
neither super heroes nor video games are necessarily in opposition to enlightenment
But they are often abused as an escape
ok boomer
@@mikehawk2630 Enlightenment is also often used as an escape. People favor living vicariously in video games just as they favor living vicariously in their work, through their families, and in their minds. Escapism is a fundamental behavior of all. Claiming that certain versions of it are worse than others requires further argument.
@@kindairish2562 💋👌nicely put.
“Our life undoubtedly belong to others and it is right if necessary to sacrifice it but our death belongs only to us” 44:30
This is profound, it addresses the reality that man faces a old problem, the inability to rule himself without a clear focus of survival for the species.
It's amazing to hear Viggo, the lead actor of Captain Fantastic, to mount a deep reflection on the Western modernity and its failures.
Great movie
Camus is a huge influence for me and has been since I read the stranger when I was 18. used him a lot in my academic and creative work but more importantly I use him in my day to day life and struggles, a genius with heart. writing this before watching, so I'm looking forward to this.
A life committed to never lying will be well lived.
Thank you. I wish this recording is mandatory for every highschool students as one of his/her graduation requirements.
I think it would be good for every high school student to thoroughly learn the Pledge of Allegiance, the 'American Trinity", and what they stand for.
1. E Pluribus Unum,
2. In God We Trust,
3. Liberty
@@serpentines6356 I think it would be good if you shut tf up with your stupidity.
I've read and re-read The Outsider many times...still as relevant today as ever....the ennui of indifference
It's just brilliant isn't it; It's also the perfect length, not a word too long, nor too short. Camus was a master at his craft.
So many accomplished actors with marvelous voices. I wish they all would read to us. We all love a well told tale. I still remember Christopher Plummer reading “Jacob Two Two and the Hooded Fang” to the delight of me and my children. Darn near wore that record out. So much better than tv. And imbuing a love of ideas, language, and reading upon us all.
I'd love for Niki Minaj to read Holes
So poignant and timely. This reading makes clear that we are all continuing to be in crisis. My most humble gratitude.
Albert Camus is a humble revelation of the power of listening.
“We who are still living must remind ourselves that the only reason we are alive is because we did less than others.”
Wow.
Nonsense
@@uselessdegenerate7565 This was in the context of post WW2
I am glad to have found this event, thank you UA-cam. Thank you Columbia Maison Francaise.
He walks out to the podium, there's a short pause and - "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me!"
I am surprised no one mentioned "History of Violence", which is directly related to this subject, and Viggo plays an amazing part in.
It is mentioned if you pay attention to the beginning of this video.
Camus was outstanding at that time. Forever relevant in this kabalistic world
Kabbalistic world? :D Illuminati or what? Just choose that ideology wisely, yo.
Another person afraid of Jews ?
@@bellezavudd Another person who wants to enslave humanity?
@@whyisblue923taken
Is that alex jones i hear calling you home ?
@@bellezavudd Camus was a philo-semite.
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
Merci
Climate change disagrees.
Wow, he was a lot younger than I imagined. Shame he lived only a few years, imagine the other works he could have come up with. Amazing
I read Camus' "The Stranger" in 1968 as part of an Arts subject complimenting my essentially Scientific studies. It was mind-opening, if unsettling. We just exist.
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How profound
Wonderful reading by Viggo Mortensen. His voice reminds me of my dearest friend Jo Lorentzen, who died before his time. Indeed the human crisis lecture is as relevant today as it was in 1946...as the human crisis continues to torment us.
The Rebel.
That is Camus most mature and important work. Followed by the Myth Of Sisyphus, which is more popular, but his thought wasn't as developed yet.
As a MA grad in philosophy I just wanted to leave this here for future watchers.
Thanks
The Myth of Sisyphus kept me from committing suicide back in the 90s. Profound essay. Will never sell my copy.
Knowledge and wisdom are not at all the same. Wisdom is aquired only through suffering. falun dafa.
A Happy Death is my favorite.
My favorite work of his is La Peste (The Plague), because I've never seen any other author have such amazing perspective taking skills that somewhere by the middle of the book, I realized, I understood every single character's motivations, struggles beyond the plague, or lack thereof and how some types of personalities will use that universal (at least all across Oman, where the story takes place) disbelief that something like the plague would get them in the end, despite being willing to believe that anybody else could fall prey to it (besides "authority figures" that ppl turned to for answers, like the protagonist doctor, as well as the elusive doctor in France who was working diligently to prepare a vaccine against it to give to him (even when completed and in the hands of the makeshift hospital workers, the vaccine gets loads of credit, despite not actually being effective in any individual in Oman), the fire and brimstone clergyman, the newspapers, and the government officials thought to be the top authority, but these officials would only act when someone else was willing to officially declare that what was going on was indeed the plague and hid behind the doctor who they could blame if they needed someone to sacrifice if the constituents got too angry, inpatient, and/or unruly.
The Myth of Sisyphus is amazing, but probably not a good first book to read by him, unless you already know about his philosophical idea of the absurd and why absurdism would be beneficial in an even hopeless seeming situation.
The Rebel and Notebooks (with the later being published posthumously) are the two works of his I have not yet gotten a chance to read. But I need some new reading material anyway, might have to get my hands on my own copy of either of them, but more likely than not, I will reach for The Rebel.
I have always loved Vigo . He is common people ..poet ..real man humble man.
The common person is an abhorrent person. Be glad he's not common. Most people are absolutely disgusting. They'll ignore a dying animal and not even think about their negligence. Don't sugar coat the nature of the majority!
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne
"Violence has a hold on us..." Is this not the case in the world today, especially in politics and business. And yet to rebel against this violence in all forms, including and especially in oneself, is our greatest and most realizable hope.
I have so much respect for you, Viggo Mortensen. It just increased a hundred fold with this reading of Camus work, with all the authenticity of someone who does not feel the need to be perfect.
#RESPECT
Kinda like thanking the telephone for giving you the message.
@@evacromwell236 Assuming the telephone was sentient, could speak 6 languages, was familiar with the philosophy and capable of understanding and intonation, inspired people and many other nuances too numerous to mention then you are correct and Viggo is nothing more than a delivery device similar to a Turkey baster.
@@justinoz06 - thank you, Justin Doward for your comment.
@@justinoz06 Thank you, Justin. I was just planning my reply, but you've covered it!
I don't understand why people who have clearly not listened to/understood the message reply -- unless they're bots.
I often think of Camus when I am stuck on a phone trying to sort out my bank account or electrical bill.
If he could only see it now; the impersonal, beaurocratic and egocentric purgatory we have created.
No wonder the kids want to burn it down.
Today's best understatement...What da name a da band? Rage Against the Machine. (Profound resistance is the quality of resilience expressed through the proactive courage of love. Dare to care.)
:(
@elisheva Weberman not literally
No wonder indeed. Who can blame them!
16:19 is the start of the actual speech, in case you are only here for camus
Thanks Viggo. I may not have heard this philosophy by Albert Camus, without having such esteem for you .. so … Thankyou! ☘️
This Camus speech seems to be an early version of what would emerge as "The Rebel," published a few years later, in 1951. It's a stimulating response to not just Hegel but Sartre.
The speech reminded me of a scene in the movie Casablanca when Rick played by Bogart ask the Chek freedom fighter Lazlo, why is he fighting isn't it pointless? Lazlos response opens with you might just as well ask why we breathe, if we didn't breathe we would die. Of course he could have also said have you ever met her?
@@refuge42 "WHY, Mr. Anderson? WHY do you PERSIST?!?!" "Because I choose to."
the king, the scholar, the poet.
I really recommend watching the award-winning documentary from the Cizik School of Nursing in Houston, Texas, 'Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of the Third Reich'. It should be required viewing for anyone studying nursing or medicine. Actually everyone needs to see it! There are so many parallels to what is happening now and where it is heading.
Agreed. It haunts me- and I see it happening anew.
Watched a bit of the film. Healthcare in the US? Specifically now?
Listening to Camus speech makes me wonder if he was talking about the reality of post war Europe or seeing the future. Certainly his intention was to use his own experience as a warning which was, unfortunately, not heeded. Human history is a play in which only the actors and sets change with the narrative repeating endlessly.
that is very profound, bravo
So, there’s nothing to change. Words don’t make reality. It’s so deeply entrenched in our being. Can’t even say what it is.
...and yet peace -- the cessation of thinking -- is our ontological ground and in the very air we breathe.
MAESTRO....BRAVOOOOOOO.....
Also Human crisis Today 04/02/2022 Most interesting reading and speach by Vigo Mortensen from beginning to the end.
Thank you so much for sharing.
The Relevance continues to haunt..
May be more intense than ever...
You forgot Hidalgo! A great movie! Viggo is a wonderful actor, very intelligent individual, fantastic actor, a wonderful human being.
To admire this man.and to love his love for all art form🥰
Would like to see Vigo in more movies. , so great , so handsome
“So speak & die” standing stronger in 2021 🤍🦋
One of my favorite writers, it takes a lot of culture and worldliness for an American actor to study this author...kudos to Viggo Mortensen
Quite moving! Tragically, a significant portion of both Left & Right have forgotten the lesson ... and Doom us to repeat it this year!
Very wise, very insightful and (I saw with a sigh), very timely, 70 years on. given what's happening in the world, what still seems to be happening. Great to hear such philosophy that is rooted in human dignity and freedom -- not some abstract, ivory tower.
He would obviously be against covid passports and lockdowns.
@@MicahMicahel I sincerely doubt that he would have been against cv19 lockdowns. He lived in a time when people died and were horribly maimed by things like smallpox and rubella and measles and a host of other evil diseases that we hardly hear of or see these days precisely because people could see the pain and suffering that those little bugs brought on us. Sorry to be so pointed but I think you are comparison is off base and misinformed by the history. More people died of the Spanish flu then died in world war I. Both are wars and both need to be fought. You simply have the luxury of not knowing the facts.
@@refuge42 so he saw real misery and he would still be afraid of a virus that doesn't raise the death rate because it only kills the near dead? I doubt it. People nowadays haven't seen anything. They cry over a sliver. Locking down over 0.01% death rate (CDC) really shows people of nowadays are snivelling cowards or at least fascists that feel the need to obey.
Iv had the mesals, chicken pox and maybe german mesals. My mother should remember these things right?
Also whooping cough as a child that I had for over a year before I was seen by a doctor. Probably did irreversible damage to my lungs. I just remember coughing and coughing the throwing up and sometimes I would go down. Hard to say if lost consciousness as was young.
Mesals sucked but was 4, just a never ending fever, delirious and kinda like awake but not and afraid. Mind plays tricks on you when delirious.
Chicked pox, oh man my ass, eye lids, belly, back was so itchy. Was more chalk white with calamine than skin for two weeks. I can attest that tapping even mits to childrens hands so can't scratch/ lasting scaring is not an old wives tale. Didn't happen to me as I didn't want even mits so dis what I could not to. Yip boils to. Woke up and showed mum, what's this, was every ware and over night. You feel well tho just so itchy, cant leave house or play outside etc for two weeks. So 10 years adult time lol
I was born in the 80s in a developed nation listed easily top ten in and social/ socialist government sceem. Had my jab but caught messals/ mumps befor that and whooping cough has not had a vaccine to long. Rampant in my county like menangitious compared to any other seveloped world but only free vax to over 65 ( puverty breeds ignorance and at risk community's on may fronts) , sure as anything my kids have had theirs at 5. So wont get sick like me.
Covid is the harry Mccleary of viruses. The sky falling the skys falling!
True we did not know publically at outbreak. So we panicked then listened to the loudest (more connected) voice. Everyone reacts to armageddon speculation the same way. Run, hide, fight etc.
Spanish flue was a pandemic.
Covid and sars are related. My country has now terible ranks of health care, child abuse, systemic poverty: arguable related (not actually kidding but so bad it's funny).
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@@MicahMicahel Obviously? Read La Peste (The Plague), before commenting.
"It no longer matters that we respect or prevent a mother's suffering. What counts is ensuring the triumph of a doctrine."
That line could have been written yesterday and it sends chills down my spine when I consider the amount of vitriol aimed at, and the amount of suffering I see wished upon, those who have done nothing more than failing to support a doctrine. Literally this morning I'm listening to a news report of a 30 year old husband and father of three being denied life saving medical care...merely because he's failed to support the triumph of a doctrine. Deadly stuff......and history is so terrifyingly and easily repeated.
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And this morning I ate bacon, we live in a sick world
I'm watching "Captain Fantastic", and this post has shown up in my UA-cam story, quite a few times as is, in the past few days. I just didn't give it any thought, but I did sit on a plane across the aisle from Viggo Mortensen, years ago with my family. He was by himself, seated to my right on the same airplane. Maybe a flight within Spain, I don't exactly remember. We exchanged a few words, of no importance, and I don't know why we even did so, and that's all. A mutually polite nod and farewell, before we all were getting off of the plane. I think I'm supposed to just let know that. I have always had a very high opinion of him. He's extremely extraordinary. Obviously. What I call Matrix life messaging me, with the difference being that I have crossed paths in this life, with this man. "Aragorn" in "Lord Of The Rings". Aragon, Spain. Extremely multitalented multilingual person. He's perfect for this reading of Camus. Otherwise, I'm going to point out, that it's not "making murder meaningless", it's making murder meaningful, that provokes murder and mass murders in the world. Genocides. The deception of any type of purposely provoked depopulation, as justified humanitarianism.
Thank you everyone involved. Viggo is a very inspiring human. I have always loved Lord of the rings,the books, he is a great actor and embodied strider/Aragon. These words seem more important now in 2022.
I've always loved Viggo, now, more so.
Thanks to the 1 million who watched the show and the people who put-together arousing amazing human response, The problem with crises is often repeating patterns. People are not weary of returning to the same battlefields and doing the same roles. The massive mass hypnosis state is the reason. We carry the herd mentality and are not able to break despite severe pain. If pain is not a teacher nothing else will!
Yes
Well said.
It can take a lot of courage, integrity, humility and trust to choose a peaceful, awake path that pays attention to each stumble, fall and stepping-up, rather than lying and blaming others all along whilst following the well trodden path...
It is a pretty thoughtful and wise lecture honoring the 70th year anniversary of Albert Camus`lecture in New York City about " The Human Crisis" given by Viggo Mortensen, a brilliant movie star and intellectual, Greetings from the Brazilian humid rainforest in Manaus,
All I have read, i think is The Plague...I loved it, so i had to listen/watch this with these Professors and Mr. Viggo Mortensen! Very enjoyable!
Viggo arrives on stage around 11:50 and 16:22 is the beginning of the reading. However, the introductions and historical background as well as personal lead ups add so much context. This was read in 2016. Today, in 2022, we continue to be “deep in it.”
Excellent introductions
If people would " love thy neighbor as thyself " the world would be paradise.
@Regular Joseph it means as i see it, whomever you come into contact with daily. The more the better. 👍
Life could be so easy for all, if we shared those words.
@@sfface46 shared and lived👍🙏
@Regular Joseph you live CHRIST JESUS teaches to the best of your ability and pray for that person to repent and be saved. Who knows your living out CHRIST's teaching's may help that person become saved . Loving GOD and your neighbor is an old and new testament teaching . Matthew 22:34-46.
Love is a bit much but simple respect would go a long way.
Thanks for sharing..
Camus speech idealistic..
An apology from France how they first capitulated to Germany then joined in the effort. Brilliant..
How lovely.
Absolutely wonderful-thank you so much Mr. Mortensen, as well to your colleagues. Thoroughly enjoyable and so relevant in this hour of our lives.
Very happy to have found this! I found it very insightful and though this story recounts violence from history, it provided me w a sense of inclusion. It also reflects many of todays societal conflicts. Excellent speech by Viggo M. No one could have done it better. To sum.. it was good and sad and scary at times, but ultimately heartwarming in that it proves there is a commonplace in humanity
Bravo! So contemporary! Important lesson...
Greatness means timeless!
I have liked the writings of Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. The Plaque and No Exist are my favorite. Yet, both have numerous publications worth reading and understanding. Their writings reflect a different time in history.
is there any other author, contemporary, that i can know about?
Who cannot praise Camus. A great man! May we learn and open our minds. Thank you Mr. M.
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What a delight to find this gem on the day of the 2020 election. Grateful.
I agree, this rings more true than ever with an American hating racist plagiarizer in the white house now.
Beauty lies in the absurdity of life, our greatest task is to transmute the distortion of thought.
Our greatest task is to return home, which is Heaven. There are facts and there is fiction. The world has lost it's ability to discern. Falun Gong is a wonderful Way towards divinity if one is kind and sincere.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Bella Caio!
Absolutely incredible :)
Ya, what Viggo read back then is true today here in America. August 1, 2016.
And even more so today in the USA July 2021
Oh, I would. It's is perfectly reasonable to hear Viggo read Camus.
😢😥😭 .. to be strong quashes the gentle energy that Albert speaks of, that you Viggo, hearten to- it is such a fine line … to loose one’s self.. to loose the heart.. Fight, but keep love in our hearts. Listen!!! To so many values !! Such a fine line (when a mother’s Son, is decimated, when that Son’s heart was so gentle & true). It comes down to the individual.. ? If we know our children, our mothers, our fathers, our neighbours.. we must speak up in our individuality, our communities & defend what is good or leans more to the good than evil. It is on each & every one of us. I Thankyou Viggo fir your obvious well meaning in being involved in this reading & for your own body of work in screen & opening my mind. I always felt a bond with you, (cute :)). Stay safe, keep on, I hope you may read this, keep going. THANKYOU! ☘️
Simply mesmerizing,,, what a great event
43:49 It’s such a wonderful thing to hear a young man of that era advocating for the right to love! It just warms my heart. I wish I could take a trip to that time to meet Albert (my grandfather’s name😉) at this point in his life. That would be awesome, I think. He’d prob get a kick out of hanging with a mature black American woman for an hour😁.
Hold your horses there Tanya he's a married man lol
@@LunaDelTuna 😂😂. Thx for the reminder, heathen😂. I wasn’t gonna do anything, promise🤞🏽😁.
Thank you for sharing this!
Brilliantly sad story
Fantastic actor narrates it so well
After reading the remarks below, I can add that I too have heard tell of nothing but good things about Viggo. A talented actor who isn't a bonehead...he is a rarity.
And finally, is it in the present moment that we may meet the infinite light of our individual capacities? Many have said this that went before us