Grant Morrison Explains Life

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  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2012
  • Writer Grant Morrison talks life, existence, and the Hyper-Entity.

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  • @lilwil132
    @lilwil132  5 років тому +14

    Hi all, I have created a new channel ua-cam.com/channels/sdZtPUYYgZHjFaVSrtsG2g.html

  • @ShadowRealmSurvivor
    @ShadowRealmSurvivor 10 років тому +665

    I like to imagine this was all in response to a very simple question about Batman.

    • @bk2524
      @bk2524 6 років тому +39

      ShadowRealmSurvivor
      "Hey Grant, do you think that it's ok to retcon Batman canon?"

    • @Monchi2006
      @Monchi2006 5 років тому +39

      "Hey Grant who do you think should play batman in the new movie?"
      "I'll try to explain this as fast as possible..."

    • @necrosan
      @necrosan 4 роки тому +5

      Yeah I would love to see the lead up to this and also the aftermath

    • @TSR1776
      @TSR1776 3 роки тому

      @@Monchi2006 100% xD

    • @taylorhippie
      @taylorhippie 3 роки тому +2

      Isn’t everything?

  • @raym.778
    @raym.778 4 роки тому +286

    "Hey Grant, how's life treating you?"
    "I'll try and explain this as fast as possible."

  • @ZenNeonRazor
    @ZenNeonRazor 8 років тому +240

    This is what writing Batman does to you.

    • @matetotally3742
      @matetotally3742 7 років тому +77

      nah, writing Batman is what you get to do when you think like this.

    • @timothywillox8564
      @timothywillox8564 5 років тому +11

      matetotally more like this is how you get Final Crisis.

    • @wagdawgwag872
      @wagdawgwag872 5 років тому +19

      This is what happens when your creative process consists of doing hallucinogenics and reading old comics.

    • @AAllen-br8it
      @AAllen-br8it 5 років тому +9

      @@wagdawgwag872
      I know for a fact that this is in fact a fact.

    • @timothywillox8564
      @timothywillox8564 4 роки тому +6

      Rick J-420 Yup. His book “supergods” talks about his hallucinations and his sigil rituals that he performed

  • @pussymonster1514
    @pussymonster1514 7 років тому +241

    wtf in 5 minuets he just made me feel ok about dying

    • @theseeker2586
      @theseeker2586 4 роки тому +3

      @jesus jones
      That's stoicism for you

    • @vinayseth1114
      @vinayseth1114 4 роки тому +2

      Nah man, you still die in the same way as a cell dies. But the total sum of consciousnesses doesn't become 0, in the same way that the death of a cell doesn't lead to the death of a person, since a new cell is born in its place. So yep-you'll disappear into non-existence one day.

    • @paulbateman858
      @paulbateman858 3 роки тому +5

      @@vinayseth1114 only if you dont accept the time as a dimension aspect of his thinking, in his concept all moments of us can similtaneously coexist, meaning all of your past present and future endures in the now.

    • @vinayseth1114
      @vinayseth1114 3 роки тому +3

      @@paulbateman858 Interesting. That complicates this a bit! So I and non-I (post-death) exist simultaneously in one 'now'? Bizarre.

    • @ashekhinahpt1197
      @ashekhinahpt1197 3 роки тому +1

      Past or present and future... just ohmmmm me out ...

  • @kelly-annmaddox
    @kelly-annmaddox 10 років тому +170

    Sometimes, I just find myself needing to watch this.

    • @telejim2238
      @telejim2238 3 роки тому

      I watch your videos a lot Kelly, I should’ve known you’d be an appreciator of Grant Morrison too! 🙂

  • @PunchiesManifesto
    @PunchiesManifesto 11 років тому +63

    All the interviewer asked was, "Hey Grant, how are you?"

  • @griffinlobster
    @griffinlobster 8 років тому +152

    this video could be massively improved by slowly zooming in on the interviewer's face

  • @theJKA
    @theJKA 10 років тому +49

    this explains how lex luthor sees the world at the end of all star superman

  • @miharu4185
    @miharu4185 7 років тому +71

    that microphone is just getting heavier and heavier

  • @patsboy1012
    @patsboy1012 5 років тому +29

    This reponse Morrison is giving is making me see his approach to Batman in a whole new light.
    Morrison’s train of thought about Batman’s continuity is that everything is canon. And for Batman to be the figure that he is today, he had to grow from the gun toting knight of vengeance from the Golden Age to this beacon of justice that has sworn off killing that he is today. The original Golden Age version was like this single cell organism, but as time went on, that version of him had to adapt and multiply for it to survive. Each era of Batman is like growing pains in a child. Although the inherent DNA of Batman will always be there, he will no doubt change when I’m alive and will keep changing long after I’m dead. The train of thought of each era is like, “How does the inherent DNA react to a different enivronment and what kind of changes does it go through to survive?”.

  • @Tautolonaut
    @Tautolonaut 5 років тому +30

    Years later, I want to hear an interview with the interviewer to see how his life was impacted by this conversation.

  • @dom19945
    @dom19945 9 років тому +38

    Connection to the whole (the universe) is the way I see it. We are microscopic to the grand picture physically, yet our minds connect to everything (we can conceive of this, Grant just says it). It makes me feel more close to everything, find more beauty in the small stuff.

  • @dukejivetalker7541
    @dukejivetalker7541 3 роки тому +10

    One day humanity will catch up to grant. One day.

  • @blueplanetproject77
    @blueplanetproject77 10 років тому +69

    a great, intellectual man who is very inspiring both with his amazing writing but also his talk on "magick" and ritual. ive learnt a LOT from this man in many different ways

  • @chriscueva1866
    @chriscueva1866 3 роки тому +12

    “Hey Grant, where do you buy all those snazzy outfits?”
    “ i’ll try to explain this as quick as possible .....”

  • @jahimjauh-hey5653
    @jahimjauh-hey5653 7 років тому +145

    Somebody please animate this.

    • @Faustulous
      @Faustulous 6 років тому +15

      Just Grant Morrison with a third eye, bringing a random person on an adventure through the cells. XD

    • @noirnerd
      @noirnerd 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/Oppwa0c7Vs4/v-deo.html I made this album a while back which samples this and has some animation in the film that goes with it

    • @cenkkonul
      @cenkkonul 3 роки тому +2

      richard kelly did exactly that in donnie darko

    • @thephoenixsystem6765
      @thephoenixsystem6765 3 роки тому +2

      We are the animation

    • @jahimjauh-hey5653
      @jahimjauh-hey5653 3 роки тому +2

      @@thephoenixsystem6765 mind explodes*

  • @badmen1550
    @badmen1550 5 років тому +11

    love the tasteful subtle synth pad in the background

  • @ihearsatan
    @ihearsatan 5 років тому +14

    This boy who's doing the interview did not expect this.

  • @littleripper312
    @littleripper312 8 років тому +62

    I'll have what he's having

    • @zmbklr101
      @zmbklr101 7 років тому +7

      littleripper312 Lots and lots of redpills.

    • @necrosan
      @necrosan 4 роки тому +2

      That would be "chaos magick"

  • @MateoAbadia
    @MateoAbadia 5 років тому +19

    I love how the guy is like "What the Fu** did I get into?"

  • @kevinnevada5342
    @kevinnevada5342 4 роки тому +7

    Grant Morrison blows my mind all the way to the twilight zone with his More than interstellar explaination of what life is and then captions it with "if you can understand that simple thing"

  • @Monchi2006
    @Monchi2006 5 років тому +48

    Original question: So Grant, how do you approach writing Batman as oppossed to Superman?
    "I'll try to explain this as fast as possible..."

  • @vincesc720
    @vincesc720 2 роки тому +4

    This is what Donnie Darko is about

  • @felipepalmacastro
    @felipepalmacastro 5 років тому +4

    The accent made 10x more delightful.

  • @ashekhinahpt1197
    @ashekhinahpt1197 3 роки тому +5

    I like him he's an original thinker .. He's just fucking awesome. And how he lives his life .... impeccable

  • @sboloshis1188
    @sboloshis1188 2 роки тому +5

    Once Grant chewed me out at a comic con when I was 16. I suggested magic in comics was like super science in comics and less believable because science is measurable. It was like this and I felt really stupid. :)

  • @spikeisminesosodoff
    @spikeisminesosodoff 10 років тому +28

    The way this man thinks is amazing and I would love to sit down and just talk with him one day. He has so much wisdom and sheer genius to pass on. Love it

  • @robertdenham9541
    @robertdenham9541 5 років тому +1

    It makes me very pleased to know some people don't fully understand him.

  • @annapeterson2602
    @annapeterson2602 6 років тому +4

    Each birth is an experiment of life, a new expression at a new point in time.

  • @codyhansen7600
    @codyhansen7600 3 роки тому +5

    Because of this, I now understand tracers from psychedelics

  • @slimfandango
    @slimfandango 11 років тому +1

    his is one of the best varieties of it, imo.

  • @Caygo07
    @Caygo07 9 років тому +10

    That is some deep shit.

  • @hclyrics
    @hclyrics 3 роки тому +3

    Someone get Grant Morrison on Midnight Gospel!

  • @onimotoko
    @onimotoko 11 років тому +5

    What he is talking about reminds me of Donnie Darko.

  • @jameshumfry1256
    @jameshumfry1256 Рік тому

    Superb 👌

  • @gdossantos
    @gdossantos 4 роки тому +5

    i think he is talking about experiencing life in frames per second

  • @ZombieHitler
    @ZombieHitler 4 роки тому +2

    You have to teach yourself Magic, using these wise people as Guides.

  • @CroElectroStile
    @CroElectroStile 8 років тому +18

    wow dude i'm too stoned for this! xd

  • @proezekiel666
    @proezekiel666 8 років тому

    this how i seen that.... thank yoy Grant for prof

  • @whatevergames4758
    @whatevergames4758 4 роки тому +2

    I would love to talk stoned with this guy.

  • @sca8217
    @sca8217 Рік тому +1

    He's talking about the fourth dimension and that snake is called a spime (space time)

  • @PHealey1981
    @PHealey1981 3 роки тому

    Amazing

  • @StoneyHoliday
    @StoneyHoliday 3 роки тому

    That is awesome.

  • @IIScuzZII
    @IIScuzZII 4 роки тому +6

    Get him on JRE

    • @leex645
      @leex645 3 роки тому +4

      yes please

  • @Beezenberry
    @Beezenberry 11 років тому +6

    Could listen to him talk about anything. Grant Morrison has completely change my perception of the universe. Check him out on Fatman on Batman podcast. Mindbending.

  • @pantslizard
    @pantslizard 6 років тому +7

    King Mob

  • @baileypoching
    @baileypoching 11 років тому +7

    Anyone know when The Church of Morrisonism is starting?

  • @slimfandango
    @slimfandango 11 років тому +1

    I think that reality is really not as it seems to most people most of the time and that our brains have developed, and society conditions us, in a way that makes us see things not as they are. For example, we see ourselves as an entity in the present and the past behind us and gone, but science, physics, teaches us that the view of time in the video is much more apt. In special relativity there is no preferred inertial frame. We do trail back in time like snakes.

  • @danteturtle
    @danteturtle 8 років тому +2

    Mind blown

  • @themangoman9315
    @themangoman9315 2 роки тому +1

    Grant could talk about taking a giant shit after eating taco bell and it still will be the most existentially inspiring thing you ever heard

  • @tommycosmos6862
    @tommycosmos6862 3 роки тому +2

    Now I understand how Gerard got to be the way they are

  • @John_Q
    @John_Q 2 роки тому

    Life is a transference of energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed.

  • @HAL29209
    @HAL29209 11 років тому +3

    I love watching this interviewer trying to be attentive and understanding of an explanation of all reality. "Uhhumm...go on (head nod)"

  • @badjaosh2272
    @badjaosh2272 Рік тому

    Enjoyed this. Life isnt gonna stop even if we drop dead.

    • @dddaaa6965
      @dddaaa6965 Рік тому

      That’s not entirely true

  • @goutamhembram1967
    @goutamhembram1967 4 роки тому +1

    Grant Morrison the reality bender.

  • @johnmcandrew852
    @johnmcandrew852 2 роки тому

    Thich Nhat Hanh said "A cloud never dies." Feels like much the same concept.

  • @rsdhillon1996
    @rsdhillon1996 11 років тому +1

    This man has unlocked some key to the universe and has been blessed with such a mind that we mortals can't even fathom. Das baller.

  • @gafraavrilt2297
    @gafraavrilt2297 11 місяців тому

    Superman Girlfriends in Marvel Universe:
    1.Jean Grey(Phoenix)
    2.Wanda Maximoff(Scarlet Witch)
    3.Ororo Munroe(Storm)
    4.Betsy Braddock(Psylocke)
    5.Emma Frost(White Queen)
    6.Carol Danvers(Captain Marvel)

  • @Fascistbeast
    @Fascistbeast 11 місяців тому +1

    Well it’s true he means we don’t actually see the present moment clearly only the past starting with your memory.
    There is a time delay experiencing the present then future.
    Lex Luther is smart haha
    I will listen to him 👍

  • @waedjradi
    @waedjradi 3 роки тому

    What a cool dude

  • @jonathanjm7
    @jonathanjm7 11 років тому

    He is talking about consciousness and Deepak Chopra shows up at the end :)

  • @ordaned1
    @ordaned1 9 років тому +3

    what is this music???

  • @megaky00
    @megaky00 10 років тому +1

    Amazing!

  • @MaskofAgamemnon
    @MaskofAgamemnon 6 років тому +5

    Someone read their Vonnegut.

  • @slimfandango
    @slimfandango 11 років тому +2

    Even if my other post just there was not correct, his approach would still be valid because there are many different 'levels of description' in science, this is just one of them, a non-time-dependent broad view of things...and he gives it an ontological validity by explaining it in terms of 'mitochondria'..Dawkins, Daarwin do the same, the gene lives on through the generaions, is that false just because individuals die? Or genes only express themselves in individuals?

  • @OMGitsShrimp
    @OMGitsShrimp 11 років тому +1

    i don't know why but i just love Scottish accents

  • @QuartinhoNerd
    @QuartinhoNerd 5 років тому +2

    That was amazing

  • @vanderjunio
    @vanderjunio 11 років тому +4

    Where can I find a transcription of this video? I'd really like to subtitle it to my home language.

  • @thejoker8293
    @thejoker8293 2 роки тому +1

    Interviewer: How are you?
    Grant Morrison: I'll try to explain it as fast as possible

  • @mizpappas
    @mizpappas Рік тому

    Genius

  • @mango-vb5vd
    @mango-vb5vd 2 місяці тому

    This is my relgion

  • @vinayseth1114
    @vinayseth1114 4 роки тому

    My only question is-how could one think about things like Finance and Stock Market after having thoughts like this? The way the economy operates sometimes doesn't make sense to me. But then again, maybe we need a mixture of abstract thinkers and executive doers.

  • @Dr.MantisTobogganMD
    @Dr.MantisTobogganMD 3 роки тому +1

    He’s studied metaphysics for a long time, his first Batman comic even had Crowley as a character in a flashback of the founder of Arkham interviewing him.
    His talk on sigils is really fascinating.

  • @vinayseth1114
    @vinayseth1114 4 роки тому

    So-everything as one object. Interesting.

  • @valrogojine7380
    @valrogojine7380 2 роки тому

    - Hi Grant, how are you?
    - Well ….

  • @richardbranson8658
    @richardbranson8658 4 роки тому +3

    Easiest ever interview.....

  • @sherene7
    @sherene7 7 років тому +3

    I want to marry this guy.

  • @kevincruz7958
    @kevincruz7958 2 роки тому

    Everything lives.

  • @bryanharoldfuller2657
    @bryanharoldfuller2657 5 років тому +1

    Main point I was trying to get to is where do we as the council put a limit to what becomes Malta New multiple universe or new verse in the Multiverse cuz now all of a sudden there's Warhammer is trying to jump on the scene there's books trying to come in that look like kryon entities that are not kryon think I can jump on the bandwagon and come in and the only reason I'm doing this is because I got told record the truth and this is what I found

  • @bryanharoldfuller2657
    @bryanharoldfuller2657 5 років тому

    The speed force is the best way I can describe what you're describing is everything's always constant it's happening but the past is once we've lived it in and gone through it it's not really changeable unless you can jump into the speed force and go back and let me know what that does Flashpoint and the forward even though it's happening and already happened it's not set in stone happened because of our ability to make the random choice at the random time that could alter possibilities of the way things will go that's the way that kryon and I have best been able to combined are theories or at least that's what I've been able to combined kryon and my theory I'm really like to hear your view on it I was Buckminster Fuller reincarnated 11 days after he died I was born Harold Fuller July 12th 1983 Bucky was born July 12th 1895 pass away July 1st 1983

  • @lindalunan9506
    @lindalunan9506 3 роки тому

    The past was Mosspark Primary

  • @walnuts9425
    @walnuts9425 7 років тому +10

    I still don't get the Invisibles

    • @Monchi2006
      @Monchi2006 5 років тому +4

      And i still dont get final crisis☹

  • @ZombieFoodReviews
    @ZombieFoodReviews 2 роки тому

    Whatever you believe in, the universal truth is that we are all one.

    • @dddaaa6965
      @dddaaa6965 Рік тому

      No we’re not, people who die in space don’t get reconsumed into poo and dirt.

  • @81quiroz
    @81quiroz 8 років тому +2

    ok i dont know if im going to get bash for this but im going to comikaze and i want to have him sign a x-men poster and not sure cause i know he worked on other comics . if you had to choose one what would you have him sign

    • @livingbirdproductions1557
      @livingbirdproductions1557 8 років тому +5

      +emmanuel quiroz All Star Superman man

    • @chriscueva1866
      @chriscueva1866 3 роки тому

      I know I’m 5 years late but the Invisibles is the book to choose. It’s his magnum opus, the most Morrisonian thing ever written.

  • @bryanharoldfuller2657
    @bryanharoldfuller2657 5 років тому

    But what I've written in Star knows his finger snap sent everybody to our reality from the MCU not the actors who play the characters but the Persona of the characters self which means a fractal of the spirit of the character from that reality merged with our reality does that mean they're going to take manifest in physical forms or are they going to incarnated as a baby and just grow up and live that time until I don't know

  • @chips1972
    @chips1972 8 років тому +11

    A Dude likes this....

  • @Alienous
    @Alienous 10 років тому +3

    Ok, this is utter genius.

  • @fuckoff433
    @fuckoff433 9 років тому +3

    Holy fuck he's from Tralfamadore!

  • @franklottar
    @franklottar 8 років тому +1

    Great. Yes, we all share this common origin and it is perplexing. That is what you may call an Oceanic thought.

  • @withoutleaders
    @withoutleaders 10 років тому +14

    Grant Morrison explains God

  • @johnmcandrew852
    @johnmcandrew852 3 роки тому +1

    I'd love to know what set him off down the route of that disquisition.

  • @bryanharoldfuller2657
    @bryanharoldfuller2657 5 років тому

    But the trouble is kryon and talked me into trying to go back and change things I should have known by the movie The Time Machine should have known better and buy all the comics grown up with I caused the Paradox a Time Paradox that I had to fix myself which is why this is all happening so fast right now but it's also right along the same time that we planned on it to happen at least I planned on it in my writing

  • @PunchiesManifesto
    @PunchiesManifesto 10 років тому +1

    Aww, you're on to something there! Evil Grant was thinking "I"m gonna mind meld his guy's brain with THE SUN!! Mahahaha!"

  • @jerrimenard3092
    @jerrimenard3092 10 місяців тому

    I grew up Mormon, so none of this is new to me at the core level. This is very reminiscent of what I heard about Temple Work for the Dead and the living. Grant's methods just have a lot less requirements and cooler sigils.

  • @MrCharlieTwist
    @MrCharlieTwist 11 років тому +8

    I think the pope must have watched this. I can think of no other explanation for the dislike.

    • @SamuelHernandez-wx9wr
      @SamuelHernandez-wx9wr 4 роки тому +1

      Old comment, but the current Pope and Morrison are on a similar wave of Hermeticism

  • @thunderwolflives
    @thunderwolflives 11 років тому +1

    Even though there might be this immortal mitochondria, it still, from what I gather, did not exist at the Big Bang or before. The conception of the immortal mitochondria on Earth or the seeding of it via a comet slamming into Earth would be something to look into. Abiogenesis would probably have more to say on this matter.
    It's a fairly interesting and logical assessment from a non-scientist though.

  • @roastybeer
    @roastybeer 10 років тому +2

    This guy is my all-time favorite comic book writer, but why can't life just be life, death be death, and the past be the past? I've spent years of my life thinking that a profound realization could come from muddying up those lines, and come up with nothing- just a muddied picture of reality. I think that there is a point to life and a meaning to existence, but to find the answers, one must retain what one knows and expand upon it. Telling ourselves that we are confused about everything that we think we know will not lead us anywhere!

    • @noklarok
      @noklarok 9 років тому +2

      cos the aliens showed him this when he was in North Africa..

    • @Ryan30z
      @Ryan30z 9 років тому

      Nick Dee and just happened to be coincidentally taking massive amounts of hallucinogenics. Nothing to do with the drugs though.....

    • @GimmeShelter1989
      @GimmeShelter1989 7 років тому +2

      Ryan Moore he was on a tiny piece of hash, no hallucinogens whatsoever.

  • @Beezenberry
    @Beezenberry 11 років тому

    This one man has completely change my perception of the universe. Check him out on Fatman on Batman podcast. Mindbending!

  • @ReallyJustAnotherDay
    @ReallyJustAnotherDay 2 місяці тому

    The arrow of time yea.