Nobody dies, idiot: we're all immortals imprisoned in meat & bone by Satan & locked in a pit leading to hell [= his arse-hole] - what we do with this immortality gets impetus from actions in this abattoir of deadly impulses > be a good loving guy like me and meet CHRIST ALMIGHTY, the God of gods, cuz you'd have to be downright fucking insane to side with the pit and its ugly shit-house dung atheist limp-wads and the ferocious cunts they ally with. Only Almighty God wins this war.
@UCBH3dHlro30f8KUHL9IVi6w oh man you are one messed up moron 🤑🤓👽😵🙄 let me guess, this god speaks to you? There is help and meds for your condition. #thereisnoskydaddy #godsaremanmade #religionpoisonseverything #wakethefuckupsheople #theawakeningishere
Yet behind all out backs he was designing a police state with the founding father of thought crime Dawkins. He just thought that if he whacked everything nobody would know what he was doing - and was RIGHT. Hitchens was self loathing on an almost cosmic scale & many mistook that for 'Intellect'.
@fanabudrogh9241 Thats one of the major questions about him yes. Watch enough of him & can easily be seen that Hitchens is riffing all the time. He will usually rattle off several different country names quite at random and way out of context AS IF it meant something when it didn't. There was usually at least one arcane / satirical / and profane rant about a particular person Hitchens would tend to punctuate with the F word since he knew THAT impressed his rather yobbo mentally challenged fans. In many ways then its a case of not being able to obtain bone fide statements among a lot of performative nonsense which a fan base swears is eloquence and intellectual power etc. That waxing lyrical by his sycophants is typical and they have no idea that Hitchens is hardly saying anything of substance at all - it sounds good but is always vacuous. Hitchens was articulate etc etc etc ? - to THEM the fanatics yes. To people with some sense NO. Furthermore its clear he with the other new atheists et al (particularly Dawkins the founding father of modern thought crime ) was a social engineer modelling along the lines just mentioned with an anti religion cover story. They did help break the christian churches yes but with what ? A MODEL that encouraged european governments to single out christianity making public worship ( in various ways ) ILLEGAL. hat escaped the comprehension of the new atheist follower was that this meant Dawkins et al had developed THOUGHT CRIME for it cannot be anything else if its banned people from thinking and saying certain things in public RIGHT? NO ? - what on earth is it then if it isn't thought crime. From that position with a ferocious anti thinking law in existence - what did New Atheists think this monster was going to do. stay in its cage? OFc not it 'escaped' and its now rampant at large killing off EVERYONES FREE SPEECH. Can YOU state what a woman ( or man btw ) is in a biological context without feeling threatened by the LAW ??? NO - the establishment , though NOT specifying the trouble we could ALL be in - has stated we will be. Same with race & gender matters of various types ALL thought crimes. A DAWKINSIAN MODEL fully run in tests abusing an anti religion agenda using 2 control groups = new atheist fans and the christians = BETA MODELLING / Control Trials ) NEW ATHEISM told everyone it was hunting down religious people to prevent them infringing everyones RIGHTS The EMPiRICAL OUTCOME. CONCERNING NEW ATHEISM IS ? Rampant thought crimes derived directly from the first model that banned christian worship in public after this model demonstrated it could be inflicted in LAW and policed.. How Intelligent !
@@davidanderson6055Hitchens agreed the war was a good thing & sided with BUSH & BLAIR just as a typical radical marxist would. Its not impossible he predicted the rough proximity of a curtailment of isis agreed. But isis is somewhat the same as a new atheist metaphysic, i.e the post truth is anything new atheism wants it to be + sucking up to likes of Bliar / Bush ( or insert current politicians ) = what ? Yes the ludicrous meaningless new atheist 'art of the possible' metaphysics are faked to seem real. Therefore in any case the truth and the concept are two separate things & Hitchens merely was close to the meaningless concept. In reality what is the core of isis still exists even now & only mad persons feel the fundamental is gone. They did NOT end except by name & in that way Hitchens only shall have side stepped the issue. ALL new atheists are highly skilled with I.E contradiction and it takes just political education to pull it off. Hitchens wasn't the a sharpest tool in the box type contrary to the opinion of his cognitively challenged disciples ( compared to them he seemed brilliant yes ) Thus what may have seemed smart was to good probability just a dependence by him on the joker card / magick number / infinity number / I.E - Marxist Reification - the trick that gets everything thats unreal seeming 'REAL'. Hitchens did what stephen hawking did with black hole equations - throw in a joker & continue. Never has such a drunken slob with whorish brass neck and wand of 180 spin got away with it all like this. Some of that effect can be explained by the way Hitchens was actually a rare & scarce world affairs based stand up comedian who was too pissed to stand up so had to sit down & the followers were unable to make the distinction he was for ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. In that sense he'd usually he's make full use of essentialist metaphysics to manifest something that isn't there by speaking as though the essence was real when any aspect he was arguing in favour of was actually metaphysical. And because he was a good marxist he paradoxically deem it NEVER RIGHT when his opponents took the same essentialist route - when he'd switch the rules to demand CONCRETE from them. Many of his opponents were plants and patsys who were already bent christians & they'd go along to be beaten by Hitchens just for the cash & because they'd never given a F about religion where they'd been put in by the olf boys network for an easy stupidly well paid job for dimwit types whose fathers are better respected etc. With isis, the essence still existed ( concerning isis) and so Hitchens just cancelled the concept ( just the name itself ) like any Marxist hypocrite would. He did so just as in fairly common metaphorical terms, politics will claim victory over these ideologies only when the 'trademark' used has expired and they know it! In that sense Hitchens even blows his cover by showing the same characteristics as politics, for he can guess 'closely' due to in clandestine relationship with politicians that he KNEW they'd would act like that. New Atheists custom made all of its 'Truth' so suit its main source of income ( ohhh i wonder who they were ). Thus if so - new atheism is still / was no different as a quango or entity acting exactly like remote ministry such as - just for instance - Stonewall might be today. Which would mean they are paid to work with both poles of para constant logic = whichever one fools more of the people more of the time. as i remarked before, once all of the the new atheism smoke & mirrors hyperbole is cleared out of the way, and imho Dawkins might be like a busy little mole constantly saying stuff against the very stuff hes done behind everyone backs to back guard for that smoke & mirrors - all the evidence suggests, Richard Dawkins is the founding father of modern thought crime & that in his day Hitchens was little different. Potentially another story concerns the kind of consensus new atheism generated. A bottom light managerial crowd of marxist academics with a top heavy majority from impoverish backgrounds. I.E disciples who saw wealth creation online & longed for better lives but had absolutely no way to know they were cheering on vindictive metaphysics that was going to attack christians only briefly enough to create laws on public worship as the sacrificial offering to the fanatical followers. Who could also cheer are european christian churches being looted of their wealth, before the same model was deployed against everyones free speech. If we ask what what good it did to ruin the christian church just so elites could take the wealth & right away insert a different abrahamic religion in its place the new atheist disciple will not know how to answer that & neither could Jesus Dawkins their leader Given that new atheism is such an abuser of para consistent logic concerning their Metaphysics and its rubber holographic ability to claim 'TRUTH' on any side of a coin. So one has to ask if the same can show that new atheism was itself a religion. The answer to that is NO, but only because no abusive metaphysics are required in order to arrive at a rational religious I.D. New Atheism itself claims there is no GOD thus defines religion a state free of one. That just leaves the earthly leaders who whip up the metaphysical frenzy right ? New Atheism thus is a religion by their own demarcation, its just that its a Dawkinsian Religion. Hitchens debates were usual bent set ups & he's have lasted 2 minutes in other situations.
@@davidanderson6055 he also predicted the intervention in Iraq would be benefecial for the US and the rest of the world. But that certainly turned out to be terribly false.
The principles at play are timeless. Mankind has been living under tyrannical slavery for thousands of years. It takes many forms, but it's all essentially the same: Steal the fruit of their labor, make up rules and punish them if they don't obey. That's every government in the world, and it directly contradicts the self-evident truth of all men being created equal with certain *unalienable* rights.
The voice of reason that you tube will carry to the new generation. Some say they are sad he is gone, but i just listened to him, so maybe not mourn just yet.
His physical presence may have passed but he built a legacy that not only lives on but is growing. I just wish he could know how influential he has become.
@@amulligan6302 Mention godless cunts and up you spring. I live in Italy and 30 yards away is an ice-cream venue. Vastly fattening but delicious. I've just walked through an olive-grove. Check out my art, blumpkin.
Sadly I can count myself among the many young people who have only discovered Christopher posthumously. I'm also among those who so deeply wish that he was still alive to give his enlightened thoughts/opinions on the current state of the world in this very day of 7/7/21. Sadly we can only guess but I actually believe he'd be happy to know that we are doing that thinking for ourselves and not having him do it for us.
@@MattSingh1 It's sad that his moral compass is centered around a sinful person who's defiantly against God and truth, a man who asked "what do you live for" and his only ultimate he could say was a good drink of alcohol and "sex is sometimes good"... this is a man who lives a spiritually empty and vapid life, and died the same way preaching for us all to abandon any trancendental meaning for after we die, I can't think of a colder thing to preach especially when it's not true. While we can all agree with Hichens in the past evils of the Roman Catholic Church, I'm glad that he points out that human history through the Dark Ages of the church has done pure evil that is completely defiant to everything that Christ and Paul preached, which is an anti-Christ of its own, he's ignoring the overall message of the Gospel that Christians really follow which is love your neighbor and honor God among any material things in life.
I've listened to this today, Sept 12, 2021 and am so happy and grateful that I could hear it. Thank you to this channel and to Christopher. I remember thinking, in 1990, and saying out loud "No war for oil"! Remembering living during the Vietnam war and naively comparing it to the first gulf war and worrying that it would repeat, I attained sight. Seeing the video of Saddam purging the party that Christopher describes in this talk and thinking that we definitely should have continued in 1991 and removed him reminds me that we must be always vigilant. The turnabout was complete and correct in my thinking.
He was 100% right about the Iraq war and I praise the USA for eliminating that hideous dictator and freeing the people of Iraq from its cruel grip. I praise the USA and its people for providing humanitarian aid in several poor, underdeveloped countries through donations and other kinds of help. I always do.
Just been listening to his brother Peter on the current Middle East situation and whilst they both differed greatly politically it is their collective depth of knowledge which is enthralling and always worth listening to.
I echo the feelings of Shaun Laubscher, if only men like this were world leaders. What a world it would be, & what a brilliantly unique and independently minded academic, journalist, novelist, & essayist. Rip Hitch.
Hearing an early draft of his next few years is a brilliant treat. Thank you. And, what a beautiful man. I hope my existence is 1/10 as beneficial to humanity.
He was merely wrong about the necessity of the invasion, though it is true that Saddam Hussein’s overthrow had long been overdue. It was giving to caesar what was caesar’s due.
@Jazzkeyboardist1 bless you jazzy Jeff. I'm still divided as to the necessity of the second Iraq war, but, unlike you, I listen to both sides of the argument and formulate my own opinion. Hitchens makes a case for Iraq 2 based on UN conventions which is hard to ignore if you value international law. which you clearly do not. your seeming obsession with homosexual acts would also lead me to surmise that you are religious in some shape or form which would then logically lead to the conclusion that your unhealthy interest in hitch stems from your displeasure at his attitude to theocracy and totalitarianism. the fact that Hitchens is recognised by anyone with a brain to be one of the most important intellectuals of the latter part of the 20th century and you do not says rather more about you than it does him. thus, my original conclusion that you re a clown still stands.
Hitchens was articulate etc etc etc ? - to THEM the fanatics yes. To people with some sense NO. Furthermore its clear he with the other new atheists et al (particularly Dawkins the founding father of modern thought crime ) was a social engineer modelling along the lines just mentioned with an anti religion cover story. They did help break the christian churches yes but with what ? A MODEL that encouraged european governments to single out christianity making public worship ( in various ways ) ILLEGAL. hat escaped the comprehension of the new atheist follower was that this meant Dawkins et al had developed THOUGHT CRIME for it cannot be anything else if its banned people from thinking and saying certain things in public RIGHT? NO ? - what on earth is it then if it isn't thought crime. From that position with a ferocious anti thinking law in existence - what did New Atheists think this monster was going to do. stay in its cage? OFc not it 'escaped' and its now rampant at large killing off EVERYONES FREE SPEECH. Can YOU state what a woman ( or man btw ) is in a biological context without feeling threatened by the LAW ??? NO - the establishment , though NOT specifying the trouble we could ALL be in - has stated we will be. Same with race & gender matters of various types ALL thought crimes. A DAWKINSIAN MODEL fully run in tests abusing an anti religion agenda using 2 control groups = new atheist fans and the christians = BETA MODELLING / Control Trials ) NEW ATHEISM told everyone it was hunting down religious people to prevent them infringing everyones RIGHTS The EMPiRICAL OUTCOME. CONCERNING NEW ATHEISM IS ? Rampant thought crimes derived directly from the first model that banned christian worship in public after this model demonstrated it could be inflicted in LAW and policed..
Good. So being that Dawkins is the founding father of modern thought crime, thoughts that are becoming illegal because of him will sound good to you right ? Surely he founded the first thought crimes since the witchcraft trials, as nobody has ever built a model that lead to laws like those imposed on anyone since, then let alone against just CHRISTIANS. They cannot breath a word about their beliefs in public nor show a book or any dress otherwise they'll be arrested & no other religion is enforce against like this. But ! that was not all since from there several other thought crime laws were created off the back of banning christians in accordance to dawkinsian models. A different abrahamic religion moved in to replace the fallen christianity even. Just by coincidence the whole church looted across europe also. its vast wealth disappearing into an unknown VOID. New atheist disciples believed these models would stay locked up in their cages ? The model didn't - and now this delectable metaphysical dawkinsian architecture is shutting down everyones free speech. Its hard to grasp yes as a lot of people feel Dawkins is about protecting free speech. That is NOT what is happening when we look at the real effect, as opposed to the one everyone was lead to BELIEVE.
Such an important speech. Unfortunately, it will never grow old. I write this as Putin mindlessly invades Ukraine without any internal opposition to tell him he is wrong, and after successfully interfering in US politics to the point that he was able to help elect an American President. But Hitch's words are as timely now as they were a year ago, ten years ago, and unfortunately will continue to be.
I can assure you Putin did not invade mindlessly . The US has been arming vicious rightwing shit aha in Ukraine since they staged a coup in 2014 in kiev. If you struggle with this try looking up John Mearsheimer for your education
Particularly apt for comparison with Vladimir Putin's approach to taking counsel from others, is Hitchens' comments re Saddam Hussein's 100% loathing of any non sycophantic, non-yes man lickspittle agreement with his policies and loans. The chronic inability to be able to handle any criticism of any kind is one of the hallmarks of the clinically insane, and Vladimir Putin appears to show those same hallmarks.
It’s sad watching this in 2020, not just because hitch is dead but because many of his pessimistic predictions came true, so few optimistic predictions came to mass and much has remained the same
A brilliant and "on point" lecture for our discerning global leaders - as for us, since all may learn a thing or two about the aspects of evil minds which are oermitted to rule, - which unfortunately, every adolescent, adult professional and global leaders should be made aware of. And herewith in the end we do say may God bless him, this man of rrason, of logic, of genius. Experience counts🙏
His brother said Hitchens is a Stalinist. Stalin was a sub-human shit, like Hitchens. Of course, Stalin hated liberal Marxist Jews like Hitchens & would have murdered him outright. The freedom to speak is only possible in the Christian West.
@@jamesdettmann94 Islam is similar to atheism in that it was brewed in the shit-sty of hell & it will return there with its adherents. I hate nothing & no-one and, indeed, feel sorrow for misguided swine infected with the spiritual rabies of eiter ghastly ideology, both of which deny the Godhead of Christ. I pity your stupidity.
Christopher's first lines remind me of a song by a relatively unknown nerdfolk band called MJ Hibbert and the Validators. The song was titled The Fight For History and it described, quite preciently how history would be re-written to credit the old cold warrior politicians - like Reagan and Thatcher - for ending the cold war When the truth was far more visceral - it happened because, in Christophers words "so many millions of people, in so many countries and societies, simply by folding their arms and adopting an attitude of defiance...." or in Hibbert's words "the cold war was ended by East Germans in Berlin, not politicians"
It's quaintly narcissistic to imagine that it was "the people" and not the leaders who trigger such things -- it makes is feel better about ourselves -- but the simple fact that the same people failed to act in the same way for years puts the lie to this fantasy. At the time of the Soviet collapse, of course, we had not had time yet to concoct such a fable in hindsight -- indeed, the very same "people" recognized that it was the leaders who gave them in that moment both the belief that their oppressors were not as powerful as they had come to believe and to believe that outsiders would aid them if they rose against those oppressors. When Reagan said "tear down this wall", it became clear that the West was no longer to be understood to be cowed by the Soviet power into silence on the subject -- this was so novel a notion at that time that even Reagan's foreign policy people thought he was crazy to say something so provocative and impossible. His willingness to say it out loud in the very shadow of the wall is what made "the people" believe that it might be possible. And the Pope's pronouncements that their oppressors authority was not tenable even in the temporal state allowed "the people" to believe that a rising up against those oppressors would have supernatural support as well. As long as "the people" believe their attempts (for whatever goal) are likely to fail and not be supported, they tend to remain willing to keep their heads low and just survive another day. It's why American slaves left en masse from plantations only once their emancipation was proclaimed by the government (even though that government didn't have the power to enforce it yet). It's why soviet block nations remained in chains until certain "cold war leaders" made it clear the status quo was not presumed to continue. When leaders leave "the people" to believe there is no hope, they acquiesce. When they show them there is hope, they feel empowered to act. "The people" wanted freedom for 70 years of Soviet rule; it was only when leaders gave them hope that "the people" became empowered to free themselves.
Yep. But its like Hitchens/ Dawkins only hide behind smoke / mirrors front and moan about anti religion so that they don't get sussed out for screwing us all over. Both / Dawkins had hidden below all that fake up the fact that the thought crime model they designed & which got christian worship banned in public. For years now christians get arrested for saying prayers just their breath even = christianity done outside home or church is illegal. All very well - new atheist fans cheering etc.The trouble is this mode has been directed at everyone else and is abolishing ALL FREE SPEECH. You never once looked at the arrogant slob & wondered why he needed to rant on and on and on about matters that really should not be decided by such a dictator ? Wasn't it its none of his business!! The fans just didn't grasp the new atheism attack was basically 1 thing THOUGHT CRIME - the first since the witch trials And in any case another major abrahamic religion has been neatly inserted into the same hole - and you people still haven't sussed what Dawkins has done ? What is your problem You don't like being able to speak you mind / You'd like Dawkins to have us banned from communicating entirely ?
He was spot on about Putin and Nigeria. His power not only scares me, but the seemingly sound support he has across the world, including Europe to a large degree. Why is it that if a world leader was a member of the SS or SA, we wouldn't give them as much air time and sympathy as Putin receives? The West has been fooled into thinking that Soviet oppression was much lesser than National Socialism, and for some reason, subject to indifference.
Boy, the part around the 14 minute mark where he explains that Hussein was a) delusional, and b) had surrounded himself by people who wouldn't tell him that he was making grave mistakes. Juxtapose this with people like Trump and Putin today. The inability to engage with critical voices, regardless of whether or not you're a tyrant (Trump doesn't qualify as a tyrant, just emotionally and intellectually stunted), leads to ruin.
47:20 Hitchens was proven wholly wrong with his predictions about Iraq's internal stability. He delivered this speech about a year before the civil war dawned in Iraq. As as admirer of his work, it is only correct to point out his mistakes as well.
@@thedoctor.a.s1401 America left Iraq an unmitigated disaster and an ungodly mess from which it is still to redeem itself twenty years after the invasion. For all Saddam’s faults, he kept a tight lid on the festering problems within that country. He especially kept a lid on radical Islam; and his departure saw that can of worms being thrown wide open. His fall, and the moronic US decision to disband the Iraq Army forms the genesis of so much of the misery afflicting the place today. Saddam was no angel; but he was way better than what followed his forced departure. At least the man shaved and kept a clean chin. Even when recognising the positive influence of US policy in the region, including the setting up of so many American universities, this was just bad.
Damn, the question at 48:06 really sets Hitchens off! Notice how much he's looking up, directly into the eyes of whoever asked such a stupid question. This is barely-controlled hellfire and brimstone preaching from one of the great minds of the last century.
To any Iranians on here, whether you live inside the country or are a member of the large diaspora; If people knew that Mohammad Reza Shah had been fighting lymphoma since at least 1974, as we all know now, would people have been more willing to accept a government headed by Shapour Bakhtiar and waited Pahlavi out until he died of his cancer just a year later? After all, the first thing Bakhtiar did was to forcefully disband and deligitimize SAVAK, the despised secret police. After all, it's well known that Bakhtiar hated Pahlavi for the very legitimate reason that Reza Shah had his father murdered. He was also one of the leader's of the National Front, the same group that Medhi Bazargan belonged to. Or was it simply too late in the game for all of this to happen? The final question I'd like to ask is this; Do any of you regret the Islamic Revolution happening and if so why?
I agree with his thinking and have learned more about the world’s problems. Cristopher Hitchens has spoken openly about humanitarians main problems political, religious, scientific, and social. Christopher has the ability to say what he thinks, why he thinks that way, and why you should to. If you are human. Those thinking that some man created savior is going to solve humanity!s problems are brainwashed or insane.
I'm sure that he was happy to have been able to see Slobodan Milosevic convicted of war crimes as well as crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court by being sentenced to life and actually dying in prison as well. It's one of the few times that that legislative body has actually been put to it's proper use.
I love Hitchen's but it saddens me that he makes no mention of WHY there is presently a theocracy in Iran. No mention of US and British instigation, funding and intervention of the 1950 coup that lead to what is now present day Iran. Ironic that the people are asking for US intervention to remove the theocracy, when it was US and British intervention to install it.
But surely, even if what you say is 101% true, those who want intervention to remove theocratic fascism didn't necessarily support its installation? There's no doubt, and it's sickening to say, that western interventions have helped the maintenance of Islamic fascism across the region. It is a disgusting thing to say (not that you have) that Islamic fascism didn't exist from Islam's very beginning.
29:26 - *_Within the carapace of the theocratic state,_* an almost completely secular society is being created... Christopher Hitchens, Ladies & Gentlemen!
I remember 1989 at 18 years of age but had no clue what was happening. I knew it was important but thinking it was normal for big things since apollo missions just finished and new space station being built challenger spacecraft ect ect. Epic times I wish I had gone through those times with my current state of conciousness
Listen to this in the context of what is happening in the US presently 2016-2021... it’s definitely systematic but you must never know you are safe...at about 12:18 .. loyalty tests present today in the ousting of Ms Cheney. Confusion reigns and even those most loyal can’t be certain they are safe. I fear this is only the beginning not the end of our own fascist experiment.
It's very interesting to learn of the fine line between communism/socialism and fascism. If we take Mussolini and Milosevic for example; (the former being an ardent socialist and the latter being a self-proclaimed communist who used to lambast, correctly, Croatia for its endorsement of national socialism). I'm keen to hear any explanations or thoughts on this.
To put it succinctly: communism is international socialism; fascism is national socialism. The first wants to throw everything on the menu into the blender and serve grey, shapeless goo, whereas the latter wants to serve one, and only one dish. Both, however, think they should run all restaurants, you the citizen should just be thankful for whatever they serve...
ISIS showed that his prediction of Iraq's future was way off. I always find it weird when he defends the Iraq war, it's like he's overly defensive and his confidence turns to a form of anger. Maybe he got too involved with the mechanics of geopolitics, but the hatred of Sadam is definitely a natural feeling.
He was never going to stray from that interventionist viewpoint. He flirted with this moral conquering of countries whom he felt need liberating, but I just do not buy the notion that you liberate peoples by flattening their villages and then leaving to give rise to a power vacuum. The post war planning was dismal and the main selling point for conflict was WMD.
@@gmoose7155 You are either wholly misinformed or downright lazy. The link between 9/11 and a 'global war on terror' commencing in Iraq is a frail one. Chemical agents yes, but you speak of a consensus on nuclear weaponry when there was such dissent within the intelligence community regarding this issue, unless you yourself are in ownership of knowledge that could have tipped the scales in favour of such a poorly planned conflict, this I doubt. The intelligence community sought to highlight parts of information that substantiated their wants and desires and left opposing parts out. This is blind imperial greed. Iraq halted their nuclear program in 1991 also. Plan for Iraq? You ask me this as though the possibility of leaving a nation to deal with its affairs its an absurdity. A crime. Unforgivable. And if you take the stance proposing a worldwide moral crusade of sorts then for fucks sake see it all the way through and be all encompassing in your view to 'liberate' and 'free' and do not leave parts out, ie; Rwanda or have zero post conflict infrastructure, socio economic planning etc. Laziness.
The baby boomerangers as Hitch named them, are now leading the revolt in Iran. As usual he was right on the money in both his assessment and prediction.
I wish I could have explained Saddam the way Chris did. My Oregon "friends" wouldn't have a bar of it. That was then. Now there is no conversation in the whole of the USA that I am aware of.
I watch all Hitch content annually and I always cringe when I hear him cough or clear his throat, he didn’t know it at the time but I wish he got it checked. He does say his cancer was so specific it would’ve needed a doctor to actually be looking for that specific cancer to have found it. RIP Christopher.
So counter intuitive to my political beliefs ..I think I'm being converted to a Conservative Hawk ? I usually adore and agree with Hitchens ..but this is hard for me say that Bush Sr. and Jr. and Halliburton was a Good Force for Justice . Am I miss interpreting this bigger message ? May we all admit it's impossible to tell ,unless we are physically witnessing the facts in real human life circumstances . At least he had the fortitude , courage and desire to pay witness to these situations .
The only thing that I don't always agree with is descriptions of some dictatorships as 'psychopathic'. I tend to think that slot of these are more 'sociopathic' rather than psychopathic. Psychiatrists often tend to think that some psychopaths can be treated in hospitals while a sociopath, or groups of them simply can't be treated, changed, or rehabilitated.
I loved Hitch, but the turn he took after 9/11 left him making predictions of which, none came true or have proven to be true. He became a bit too enamored with a militaristic response and stance toward the Middle East which the history of the last 15 years has shown to be mistaken
I miss him, but I always say- continue with your skills. I write and this is my way. Other can do what they do best and I think he would have wanted us to do our best. For science and search for the truth and not just believe
Still coming back to listen at the end of 2023. His intelligence is timeless! Rip
How I wish Christopher Hitchens was alive right now. I wish we could have gotten his take on current events. RIP to a great man of humanity and reason
Nobody dies, idiot: we're all immortals imprisoned in meat & bone by Satan & locked in a pit leading to hell [= his arse-hole] - what we do with this immortality gets impetus from actions in this abattoir of deadly impulses > be a good loving guy like me and meet CHRIST ALMIGHTY, the God of gods, cuz you'd have to be downright fucking insane to side with the pit and its ugly shit-house dung atheist limp-wads and the ferocious cunts they ally with. Only Almighty God wins this war.
@UCBH3dHlro30f8KUHL9IVi6w oh man you are one messed up moron 🤑🤓👽😵🙄 let me guess, this god speaks to you? There is help and meds for your condition.
#thereisnoskydaddy
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@@yomilalgro Watch the BBC documentary on UA-cam called The Lost Genius about the earth's highest IQ & maths super-genius. LEARN!
Imagine Hitch and his views on the madness of the Trump cult
@@JimOverbeckgenius Thank you, my friend, for this absolute truth.
His voice is an intellectual lullaby. Soothing, salient, and inspiring.
Yet behind all out backs he was designing a police state with the founding father of thought crime Dawkins. He just thought that if he whacked everything nobody would know what he was doing - and was RIGHT.
Hitchens was self loathing on an almost cosmic scale & many mistook that for 'Intellect'.
Wonderful description.
Mr Hitchens remains an intellectual hero to those fortunate enough to have discovered his works
Hitch’s death was our loss. His voice is needed today more than ever
Indeed
Don't choke on it
This man was a diamond. We lost a gem when he died.
Hitchens... the man, the legend.
The vast stupidity of evil generated the psychosis of atheism.
@@JimOverbeckgenius Aren't you the guy who played the creepy old preacher in the Movie "Poltergeist?"
Jim Overbeck Do you have any evidence?
@@ryandelp5048 Inspect your bollocks, dear.
Jim Overbeck I know sincerity can be hard, but wouldn’t contributing to a conversation be better than trolling?
I watch him over and over, the most accurate explanation of events one can hardly find anywhere.
The late great Hitch, the world has lost a wonderful genius of a man. Ty Hitch for teaching me so much
Genius arrives from meeting Christ Almighty. Anything less is an imposture.
@@howardlovecraft750 Nobody gives a fuck what you think about him.
@@gmoose7155 The kind of people listening to Peter Sutcliffe and-or Hitchens will be drinking hot shit.
@@howardlovecraft750 care to explain how you came to such conclusions about a man you never knew personally?
@@JimOverbeckgenius #thegoddelusion
#thereisnoskydaddy
#breakthespell
#allreligionispoison
Imagine a world where men like this lead.
They did in Germany & Russia. Thank God for Christian Civilization.
@@JimOverbeckgenius what were Christianity's greatest contributions to civilization, in your opinion?
@@JimOverbeckgenius Ah, I see, thank you.
Jim Overbeck the mad ravings of a legit schizophrenic lmao
@@keving1122 Don't laugh your arse off - it's the best part of your face.
Having attended UWO in London back in the 80's it was a pleasure to attend and hear this remarkable man that evening
Everything he said, turned out to be 100% true. You can't predict the future so accurately without a tremendous amount of knowledge.
What are you on ? - NONE of his predictions on world affairs turned out to be factual / happened NOT ONE.
@fanabudrogh9241 Thats one of the major questions about him yes. Watch enough of him & can easily be seen that Hitchens is riffing all the time. He will usually rattle off several different country names quite at random and way out of context AS IF it meant something when it didn't. There was usually at least one arcane / satirical / and profane rant about a particular person Hitchens would tend to punctuate with the F word since he knew THAT impressed his rather yobbo mentally challenged fans. In many ways then its a case of not being able to obtain bone fide statements among a lot of performative nonsense which a fan base swears is eloquence and intellectual power etc. That waxing lyrical by his sycophants is typical and they have no idea that Hitchens is hardly saying anything of substance at all - it sounds good but is always vacuous.
Hitchens was articulate etc etc etc ? - to THEM the fanatics yes. To people with some sense NO. Furthermore its clear he with the other new atheists et al (particularly Dawkins the founding father of modern thought crime ) was a social engineer modelling along the lines just mentioned with an anti religion cover story. They did help break the christian churches yes but with what ? A MODEL that encouraged european governments to single out christianity making public worship ( in various ways ) ILLEGAL. hat escaped the comprehension of the new atheist follower was that this meant Dawkins et al had developed THOUGHT CRIME for it cannot be anything else if its banned people from thinking and saying certain things in public RIGHT? NO ? - what on earth is it then if it isn't thought crime.
From that position with a ferocious anti thinking law in existence - what did New Atheists think this monster was going to do. stay in its cage? OFc not it 'escaped' and its now rampant at large killing off EVERYONES FREE SPEECH. Can YOU state what a woman ( or man btw ) is in a biological context without feeling threatened by the LAW ???
NO - the establishment , though NOT specifying the trouble we could ALL be in - has stated we will be. Same with race & gender matters of various types ALL thought crimes.
A DAWKINSIAN MODEL fully run in tests abusing an anti religion agenda using 2 control groups = new atheist fans and the christians = BETA MODELLING / Control Trials )
NEW ATHEISM told everyone it was hunting down religious people to prevent them infringing everyones RIGHTS
The EMPiRICAL OUTCOME. CONCERNING NEW ATHEISM IS ?
Rampant thought crimes derived directly from the first model that banned christian worship in public after this model demonstrated it could be inflicted in LAW and policed..
How Intelligent !
@@cameroncameron2826He was pretty close with his estimate of how long the iraq insurgency would last. It lined up pretty well with the end of isis.
@@davidanderson6055Hitchens agreed the war was a good thing & sided with BUSH & BLAIR just as a typical radical marxist would. Its not impossible he predicted the rough proximity of a curtailment of isis agreed. But isis is somewhat the same as a new atheist metaphysic, i.e the post truth is anything new atheism wants it to be + sucking up to likes of Bliar / Bush ( or insert current politicians ) = what ? Yes the ludicrous meaningless new atheist 'art of the possible' metaphysics are faked to seem real. Therefore in any case the truth and the concept are two separate things & Hitchens merely was close to the meaningless concept.
In reality what is the core of isis still exists even now & only mad persons feel the fundamental is gone. They did NOT end except by name & in that way Hitchens only shall have side stepped the issue. ALL new atheists are highly skilled with I.E contradiction and it takes just political education to pull it off. Hitchens wasn't the a sharpest tool in the box type contrary to the opinion of his cognitively challenged disciples ( compared to them he seemed brilliant yes ) Thus what may have seemed smart was to good probability just a dependence by him on the joker card / magick number / infinity number / I.E - Marxist Reification - the trick that gets everything thats unreal seeming 'REAL'. Hitchens did what stephen hawking did with black hole equations - throw in a joker & continue. Never has such a drunken slob with whorish brass neck and wand of 180 spin got away with it all like this. Some of that effect can be explained by the way Hitchens was actually a rare & scarce world affairs based stand up comedian who was too pissed to stand up so had to sit down & the followers were unable to make the distinction he was for ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. In that sense he'd usually he's make full use of essentialist metaphysics to manifest something that isn't there by speaking as though the essence was real when any aspect he was arguing in favour of was actually metaphysical. And because he was a good marxist he paradoxically deem it NEVER RIGHT when his opponents took the same essentialist route - when he'd switch the rules to demand CONCRETE from them. Many of his opponents were plants and patsys who were already bent christians & they'd go along to be beaten by Hitchens just for the cash & because they'd never given a F about religion where they'd been put in by the olf boys network for an easy stupidly well paid job for dimwit types whose fathers are better respected etc.
With isis, the essence still existed ( concerning isis) and so Hitchens just cancelled the concept ( just the name itself ) like any Marxist hypocrite would. He did so just as in fairly common metaphorical terms, politics will claim victory over these ideologies only when the 'trademark' used has expired and they know it! In that sense Hitchens even blows his cover by showing the same characteristics as politics, for he can guess 'closely' due to in clandestine relationship with politicians that he KNEW they'd would act like that. New Atheists custom made all of its 'Truth' so suit its main source of income ( ohhh i wonder who they were ).
Thus if so - new atheism is still / was no different as a quango or entity acting exactly like remote ministry such as - just for instance - Stonewall might be today.
Which would mean they are paid to work with both poles of para constant logic = whichever one fools more of the people more of the time. as i remarked before, once all of the the new atheism smoke & mirrors hyperbole is cleared out of the way, and imho Dawkins might be like a busy little mole constantly saying stuff against the very stuff hes done behind everyone backs to back guard for that smoke & mirrors - all the evidence suggests, Richard Dawkins is the founding father of modern thought crime & that in his day Hitchens was little different.
Potentially another story concerns the kind of consensus new atheism generated. A bottom light managerial crowd of marxist academics with a top heavy majority from impoverish backgrounds. I.E disciples who saw wealth creation online & longed for better lives but had absolutely no way to know they were cheering on vindictive metaphysics that was going to attack christians only briefly enough to create laws on public worship as the sacrificial offering to the fanatical followers. Who could also cheer are european christian churches being looted of their wealth, before the same model was deployed against everyones free speech.
If we ask what what good it did to ruin the christian church just so elites could take the wealth & right away insert a different abrahamic religion in its place the new atheist disciple will not know how to answer that & neither could Jesus Dawkins their leader
Given that new atheism is such an abuser of para consistent logic concerning their Metaphysics and its rubber holographic ability to claim 'TRUTH' on any side of a coin. So one has to ask if the same can show that new atheism was itself a religion. The answer to that is NO, but only because no abusive metaphysics are required in order to arrive at a rational religious I.D. New Atheism itself claims there is no GOD thus defines religion a state free of one. That just leaves the earthly leaders who whip up the metaphysical frenzy right ?
New Atheism thus is a religion by their own demarcation, its just that its a Dawkinsian Religion.
Hitchens debates were usual bent set ups & he's have lasted 2 minutes in other situations.
@@davidanderson6055 he also predicted the intervention in Iraq would be benefecial for the US and the rest of the world. But that certainly turned out to be terribly false.
when the camera does pan the audience I find myself feeling very jealous of these people lucky enough to hear him speak in person. Great man!
Hitchen is the greatest man of all time.
@@godhatessinnotthesinnerhgf2659💯
Hearing this in 2022, it’s almost prescient. Amazing to watch
The principles at play are timeless. Mankind has been living under tyrannical slavery for thousands of years. It takes many forms, but it's all essentially the same: Steal the fruit of their labor, make up rules and punish them if they don't obey. That's every government in the world, and it directly contradicts the self-evident truth of all men being created equal with certain *unalienable* rights.
This could carry on for infinite time and I would still be here
The voice of reason that you tube will carry to the new generation.
Some say they are sad he is gone, but i just listened to him, so maybe not mourn just yet.
His physical presence may have passed but he built a legacy that not only lives on but is growing. I just wish he could know how influential he has become.
@@byronmartin3978 All evil filth becomes influential.
I wouldn’t count on UA-cam to carry anything of value.
@@JimOverbeckgenius what a stupid comment jimmy ! Why are watching this video then you troll?
@@woodytheduke Amazingly, that wasn’t his stupidest comment.
Obviously he drank too much hard stuff.
This wonderful man knew he was dying and still carried on.
Yes, but he didn't know in 2005/2006, though.
@@JimOverbeckgenius Go for a walk. Buy an ice-cream. Live your life.
@@amulligan6302 Mention godless cunts and up you spring. I live in Italy and 30 yards away is an ice-cream venue. Vastly fattening but delicious. I've just walked through an olive-grove. Check out my art, blumpkin.
@@JimOverbeckgenius Enjoy your olives. Tuck into a gelato. God would want you happy.
@@amulligan6302 No relation to stately plump Buck Mulligan hopefully and his patents for weird anal gadgets?!
Sadly I can count myself among the many young people who have only discovered Christopher posthumously. I'm also among those who so deeply wish that he was still alive to give his enlightened thoughts/opinions on the current state of the world in this very day of 7/7/21. Sadly we can only guess but I actually believe he'd be happy to know that we are doing that thinking for ourselves and not having him do it for us.
@Nour083Thoughtless and stupid post !
We need a CH today sadly missed 🙏🙏
Hitchens will always be my compass.
That's sad.
@@Jaryism How so?
@@Jaryism Yes, how so? I can probably guess. Typical anti-Hitchens cretin.
@@MattSingh1 It's sad that his moral compass is centered around a sinful person who's defiantly against God and truth, a man who asked "what do you live for" and his only ultimate he could say was a good drink of alcohol and "sex is sometimes good"... this is a man who lives a spiritually empty and vapid life, and died the same way preaching for us all to abandon any trancendental meaning for after we die, I can't think of a colder thing to preach especially when it's not true. While we can all agree with Hichens in the past evils of the Roman Catholic Church, I'm glad that he points out that human history through the Dark Ages of the church has done pure evil that is completely defiant to everything that Christ and Paul preached, which is an anti-Christ of its own, he's ignoring the overall message of the Gospel that Christians really follow which is love your neighbor and honor God among any material things in life.
@@Jaryism what is sad is that you come to watch this video and preach your your crap about god and a talking snake,,,wake up godboy!
The audience questions were awesome. What a rare sight.
I've listened to this today, Sept 12, 2021 and am so happy and grateful that I could hear it. Thank you to this channel and to Christopher. I remember thinking, in 1990, and saying out loud "No war for oil"! Remembering living during the Vietnam war and naively comparing it to the first gulf war and worrying that it would repeat, I attained sight. Seeing the video of Saddam purging the party that Christopher describes in this talk and thinking that we definitely should have continued in 1991 and removed him reminds me that we must be always vigilant. The turnabout was complete and correct in my thinking.
I was a "No War for Oil" guy myself. Little did I know how deep this stuff really goes. I probably still don't.
He was 100% right about the Iraq war and I praise the USA for eliminating that hideous dictator and freeing the people of Iraq from its cruel grip.
I praise the USA and its people for providing humanitarian aid in several poor, underdeveloped countries through donations and other kinds of help. I always do.
Just been listening to his brother Peter on the current Middle East situation and whilst they both differed greatly politically it is their collective depth of knowledge which is enthralling and always worth listening to.
A scholar whose shoes will never be filled. Rest easy friend.
Great man. Fucking hell, we could all do with a hitchslap right now
I echo the feelings of Shaun Laubscher, if only men like this were world leaders. What a world it would be, & what a brilliantly unique and independently minded academic, journalist, novelist, & essayist. Rip Hitch.
Hearing an early draft of his next few years is a brilliant treat.
Thank you.
And, what a beautiful man. I hope my existence is 1/10 as beneficial to humanity.
I hope to be as well read as Christopher one day.
I won't hold my breath
This talk reminds me of some lines from Field of Dreams : a voice of reason in a time of madness
I miss Hitch so much. We will never see his kind again
His books will be part of my reading material this year.❤❤
Hitch forever in his debt..
Interesting that Christopher mentions Nigeria back in 2006. Today Boko Haram is causing much mayhem in Nigeria. Looks like he was right again.
Except that soon after this the US began its full scale move out of Iraq
@Jazzkeyboardist1 YAWN. Paste.
He was merely wrong about the necessity of the invasion, though it is true that Saddam Hussein’s overthrow had long been overdue. It was giving to caesar what was caesar’s due.
Jazzkeyboardist, are you by any chance against dissonance?
@Jazzkeyboardist1 bless you jazzy Jeff. I'm still divided as to the necessity of the second Iraq war, but, unlike you, I listen to both sides of the argument and formulate my own opinion.
Hitchens makes a case for Iraq 2 based on UN conventions which is hard to ignore if you value international law. which you clearly do not.
your seeming obsession with homosexual acts would also lead me to surmise that you are religious in some shape or form which would then logically lead to the conclusion that your unhealthy interest in hitch stems from your displeasure at his attitude to theocracy and totalitarianism.
the fact that Hitchens is recognised by anyone with a brain to be one of the most important intellectuals of the latter part of the 20th century and you do not says rather more about you than it does him.
thus, my original conclusion that you re a clown still stands.
I loved the 'Hezbollah-approved' appearance. The beard looked absolutely fantastic.
Gross. Beards with crumbs and grease in them.
I agree, it’s badass!!!
Yes and the shorter tidy hair was nicer too.
Calm down, I don't think he was gay.
@Greg Brown "bicurious" haha... that's a new one. He definitely dabbled.
A great intellect. Sad we lost him.
Hitchens was articulate etc etc etc ? - to THEM the fanatics yes. To people with some sense NO. Furthermore its clear he with the other new atheists et al (particularly Dawkins the founding father of modern thought crime ) was a social engineer modelling along the lines just mentioned with an anti religion cover story. They did help break the christian churches yes but with what ? A MODEL that encouraged european governments to single out christianity making public worship ( in various ways ) ILLEGAL. hat escaped the comprehension of the new atheist follower was that this meant Dawkins et al had developed THOUGHT CRIME for it cannot be anything else if its banned people from thinking and saying certain things in public RIGHT? NO ? - what on earth is it then if it isn't thought crime.
From that position with a ferocious anti thinking law in existence - what did New Atheists think this monster was going to do. stay in its cage? OFc not it 'escaped' and its now rampant at large killing off EVERYONES FREE SPEECH. Can YOU state what a woman ( or man btw ) is in a biological context without feeling threatened by the LAW ???
NO - the establishment , though NOT specifying the trouble we could ALL be in - has stated we will be. Same with race & gender matters of various types ALL thought crimes.
A DAWKINSIAN MODEL fully run in tests abusing an anti religion agenda using 2 control groups = new atheist fans and the christians = BETA MODELLING / Control Trials )
NEW ATHEISM told everyone it was hunting down religious people to prevent them infringing everyones RIGHTS
The EMPiRICAL OUTCOME. CONCERNING NEW ATHEISM IS ?
Rampant thought crimes derived directly from the first model that banned christian worship in public after this model demonstrated it could be inflicted in LAW and policed..
Love listening to him
@@howardlovecraft750 everyone is to someone.
Good. So being that Dawkins is the founding father of modern thought crime, thoughts that are becoming illegal because of him will sound good to you right ? Surely he founded the first thought crimes since the witchcraft trials, as nobody has ever built a model that lead to laws like those imposed on anyone since, then let alone against just CHRISTIANS. They cannot breath a word about their beliefs in public nor show a book or any dress otherwise they'll be arrested & no other religion is enforce against like this. But ! that was not all since from there several other thought crime laws were created off the back of banning christians in accordance to dawkinsian models. A different abrahamic religion moved in to replace the fallen christianity even. Just by coincidence the whole church looted across europe also. its vast wealth disappearing into an unknown VOID.
New atheist disciples believed these models would stay locked up in their cages ? The model didn't - and now this delectable metaphysical dawkinsian architecture is shutting down everyones free speech.
Its hard to grasp yes as a lot of people feel Dawkins is about protecting free speech. That is NOT what is happening when we look at the real effect, as opposed to the one everyone was lead to BELIEVE.
The message of Hitchens must be preserved in todays world especially
Such an important speech. Unfortunately, it will never grow old. I write this as Putin mindlessly invades Ukraine without any internal opposition to tell him he is wrong, and after successfully interfering in US politics to the point that he was able to help elect an American President. But Hitch's words are as timely now as they were a year ago, ten years ago, and unfortunately will continue to be.
just imagine what his thoughts would be about trump?
I can assure you Putin did not invade mindlessly .
The US has been arming vicious rightwing shit aha in Ukraine since they staged a coup in 2014 in kiev.
If you struggle with this try looking up John Mearsheimer for your education
Particularly apt for comparison with Vladimir Putin's approach to taking counsel from others, is Hitchens' comments re Saddam Hussein's 100% loathing of any non sycophantic, non-yes man lickspittle agreement with his policies and loans. The chronic inability to be able to handle any criticism of any kind is one of the hallmarks of the clinically insane, and Vladimir Putin appears to show those same hallmarks.
Whether you agree with him or not, one thing that is not debatable is this man’s intelligence level, extremely smart and extremely articulate
It’s sad watching this in 2020, not just because hitch is dead but because many of his pessimistic predictions came true, so few optimistic predictions came to mass and much has remained the same
15th December 2011 Christopher left us…12 years ago today…much missed
I love that they occasionally flash "Axes of Evil" as a banner through the video. If only it was just the axes we had to deal with...
This is absolutely fascinating this many years later
A brilliant and "on point" lecture for our discerning global leaders - as for us, since all may learn a thing or two about the aspects of evil minds which are oermitted to rule, - which unfortunately, every adolescent, adult professional and global leaders should be made aware of. And herewith in the end we do say may God bless him, this man of rrason, of logic, of genius. Experience counts🙏
The late great Hitch, what a loss for humanity
His brother said Hitchens is a Stalinist. Stalin was a sub-human shit, like Hitchens. Of course, Stalin hated liberal Marxist Jews like Hitchens & would have murdered him outright. The freedom to speak is only possible in the Christian West.
@@JimOverbeckgenius Sweden has freedom of speech and isn't a christian country.
@@nonstickpansexual4540 That's why Islam expects to take over.
@@JimOverbeckgenius you know your hatred of Islam? Christianity is incredibly similar to it
@@jamesdettmann94 Islam is similar to atheism in that it was brewed in the shit-sty of hell & it will return there with its adherents. I hate nothing & no-one and, indeed, feel sorrow for misguided swine infected with the spiritual rabies of eiter ghastly ideology, both of which deny the Godhead of Christ. I pity your stupidity.
He was wrong on Iraq but at least unlike so many others he was wrong for the right reasons
I miss the Hitch. 🦎
Scratch elsewhere, stupid.
@@howardlovecraft750 That was such a great comeback...
For someone who had no evidence whatsoever.
What didn't Mr Hitchings know, a great man RIP
Christopher's first lines remind me of a song by a relatively unknown nerdfolk band called MJ Hibbert and the Validators.
The song was titled The Fight For History and it described, quite preciently how history would be re-written to credit the old cold warrior politicians - like Reagan and Thatcher - for ending the cold war
When the truth was far more visceral - it happened because, in Christophers words "so many millions of people, in so many countries and societies, simply by folding their arms and adopting an attitude of defiance...." or in Hibbert's words "the cold war was ended by East Germans in Berlin, not politicians"
Nice recommendation. They are a funny band.
It's quaintly narcissistic to imagine that it was "the people" and not the leaders who trigger such things -- it makes is feel better about ourselves -- but the simple fact that the same people failed to act in the same way for years puts the lie to this fantasy. At the time of the Soviet collapse, of course, we had not had time yet to concoct such a fable in hindsight -- indeed, the very same "people" recognized that it was the leaders who gave them in that moment both the belief that their oppressors were not as powerful as they had come to believe and to believe that outsiders would aid them if they rose against those oppressors. When Reagan said "tear down this wall", it became clear that the West was no longer to be understood to be cowed by the Soviet power into silence on the subject -- this was so novel a notion at that time that even Reagan's foreign policy people thought he was crazy to say something so provocative and impossible. His willingness to say it out loud in the very shadow of the wall is what made "the people" believe that it might be possible. And the Pope's pronouncements that their oppressors authority was not tenable even in the temporal state allowed "the people" to believe that a rising up against those oppressors would have supernatural support as well. As long as "the people" believe their attempts (for whatever goal) are likely to fail and not be supported, they tend to remain willing to keep their heads low and just survive another day. It's why American slaves left en masse from plantations only once their emancipation was proclaimed by the government (even though that government didn't have the power to enforce it yet). It's why soviet block nations remained in chains until certain "cold war leaders" made it clear the status quo was not presumed to continue. When leaders leave "the people" to believe there is no hope, they acquiesce. When they show them there is hope, they feel empowered to act. "The people" wanted freedom for 70 years of Soviet rule; it was only when leaders gave them hope that "the people" became empowered to free themselves.
Yep.
But its like Hitchens/ Dawkins only hide behind smoke / mirrors front and moan about anti religion so that they don't get sussed out for screwing us all over. Both / Dawkins had hidden below all that fake up the fact that the thought crime model they designed & which got christian worship banned in public. For years now christians get arrested for saying prayers just their breath even = christianity done outside home or church is illegal.
All very well - new atheist fans cheering etc.The trouble is this mode has been directed at everyone else and is abolishing ALL FREE SPEECH.
You never once looked at the arrogant slob & wondered why he needed to rant on and on and on about matters that really should not be decided by such a dictator ? Wasn't it its none of his business!! The fans just didn't grasp the new atheism attack was basically 1 thing
THOUGHT CRIME - the first since the witch trials
And in any case another major abrahamic religion has been neatly inserted into the same hole - and you people still haven't sussed what Dawkins has done ?
What is your problem You don't like being able to speak you mind / You'd like Dawkins to have us banned from communicating entirely ?
He was spot on about Putin and Nigeria.
His power not only scares me, but the seemingly sound support he has across the world, including Europe to a large degree.
Why is it that if a world leader was a member of the SS or SA, we wouldn't give them as much air time and sympathy as Putin receives? The West has been fooled into thinking that Soviet oppression was much lesser than National Socialism, and for some reason, subject to indifference.
Knowing now that he was an alcoholic makes him still so important , his memory, articulation and so on, genius
@Stacy Caruso Who did he con?
@@pauloshea3741 stace is probably believing in the invisible man in the sky..
you can sum up this man's career in a few feeble words . you fail to convince. your parents hate you by the way.
hunter thompson if that’s the case with Christopher Hitchens, imagine what people would say about you and your inconsequential career and existence
Joel and lis
love the "Axes 🪓 of evil" that keeps popping up.
Boy, the part around the 14 minute mark where he explains that Hussein was a) delusional, and b) had surrounded himself by people who wouldn't tell him that he was making grave mistakes. Juxtapose this with people like Trump and Putin today. The inability to engage with critical voices, regardless of whether or not you're a tyrant (Trump doesn't qualify as a tyrant, just emotionally and intellectually stunted), leads to ruin.
47:20 Hitchens was proven wholly wrong with his predictions about Iraq's internal stability. He delivered this speech about a year before the civil war dawned in Iraq. As as admirer of his work, it is only correct to point out his mistakes as well.
yes. correct on russia though.
He was pro Iraq war. It’s not hard to see that was the wrong take
Wdym wrong
@@patrick4662 what do you know anyway
@@thedoctor.a.s1401 America left Iraq an unmitigated disaster and an ungodly mess from which it is still to redeem itself twenty years after the invasion.
For all Saddam’s faults, he kept a tight lid on the festering problems within that country. He especially kept a lid on radical Islam; and his departure saw that can of worms being thrown wide open. His fall, and the moronic US decision to disband the Iraq Army forms the genesis of so much of the misery afflicting the place today. Saddam was no angel; but he was way better than what followed his forced departure. At least the man shaved and kept a clean chin.
Even when recognising the positive influence of US policy in the region, including the setting up of so many American universities, this was just bad.
watching this in may 2023 future is unpredictable because future is made by people decisions who are indeed unpredictable, RIP CH
Damn, the question at 48:06 really sets Hitchens off! Notice how much he's looking up, directly into the eyes of whoever asked such a stupid question. This is barely-controlled hellfire and brimstone preaching from one of the great minds of the last century.
To any Iranians on here, whether you live inside the country or are a member of the large diaspora; If people knew that Mohammad Reza Shah had been fighting lymphoma since at least 1974, as we all know now, would people have been more willing to accept a government headed by Shapour Bakhtiar and waited Pahlavi out until he died of his cancer just a year later? After all, the first thing Bakhtiar did was to forcefully disband and deligitimize SAVAK, the despised secret police. After all, it's well known that Bakhtiar hated Pahlavi for the very legitimate reason that Reza Shah had his father murdered. He was also one of the leader's of the National Front, the same group that Medhi Bazargan belonged to. Or was it simply too late in the game for all of this to happen? The final question I'd like to ask is this; Do any of you regret the Islamic Revolution happening and if so why?
I think they regret the US and the UK destroying their democracy
I agree with his thinking and have learned more about the world’s problems. Cristopher Hitchens has spoken openly about humanitarians main problems political, religious, scientific, and social. Christopher has the ability to say what he thinks, why he thinks that way, and why you should to. If you are human. Those thinking that some man created savior is going to solve humanity!s problems are brainwashed or insane.
It’s great that Hitchens didn’t have to read all dates and the salient facts,as close to the truth as possible.RIP Hitch.
Interesting and informative.
I'm sure that he was happy to have been able to see Slobodan Milosevic convicted of war crimes as well as crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court by being sentenced to life and actually dying in prison as well. It's one of the few times that that legislative body has actually been put to it's proper use.
And we wont see Henry Kissinger trial as a war criminal.
Ask Hitchens.
I love Hitchen's but it saddens me that he makes no mention of WHY there is presently a theocracy in Iran. No mention of US and British instigation, funding and intervention of the 1950 coup that lead to what is now present day Iran. Ironic that the people are asking for US intervention to remove the theocracy, when it was US and British intervention to install it.
But surely, even if what you say is 101% true, those who want intervention to remove theocratic fascism didn't necessarily support its installation?
There's no doubt, and it's sickening to say, that western interventions have helped the maintenance of Islamic fascism across the region. It is a disgusting thing to say (not that you have) that Islamic fascism didn't exist from Islam's very beginning.
He has spoken about and written about the '53 coup at length
love the "Axes of Evil" cartoon plaque shows up every few minutes
most thankfull to the TheHitchensArquive for this shiny little piece of a Hitchens memoir .
really filled my neuron upper belly for the night .
2005, "if we knew then what we know now...."
1995, "if we knew then what we know now...."
2021
We miss you, Hitch.
The talk WAS in 2005, published in 2013.
29:26 - *_Within the carapace of the theocratic state,_* an almost completely secular society is being created...
Christopher Hitchens, Ladies & Gentlemen!
hitch is class
High Class
@@yomilalgro i agree
@@howardlovecraft750 you talk shit
49:12 - "If resisting them makes them more active, we might as well give up now. They've won haven't they?"
What a great thought💞💥💞💥💞💥💞💥💞💥💞💥
Reincarnation is clearly off the menu. Brilliant man
@@howardlovecraft750 You sound hurt.
I remember 1989 at 18 years of age but had no clue what was happening. I knew it was important but thinking it was normal for big things since apollo missions just finished and new space station being built challenger spacecraft ect ect. Epic times I wish I had gone through those times with my current state of conciousness
We were too busy congratulating ourselves for "winning" the Cold War. Everything was supposed to be just perfect.
But boy did we feel hopeful.
I don't think I'll ever have that feeling again
36:00 has aged far more profoundly than anything else here, when so much was so utterly profoundly correct. Look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Hamas, etc.
Thank you.
Listen to this in the context of what is happening in the US presently 2016-2021... it’s definitely systematic but you must never know you are safe...at about 12:18 .. loyalty tests present today in the ousting of Ms Cheney. Confusion reigns and even those most loyal can’t be certain they are safe. I fear this is only the beginning not the end of our own fascist experiment.
It's very interesting to learn of the fine line between communism/socialism and fascism. If we take Mussolini and Milosevic for example; (the former being an ardent socialist and the latter being a self-proclaimed communist who used to lambast, correctly, Croatia for its endorsement of national socialism).
I'm keen to hear any explanations or thoughts on this.
To put it succinctly: communism is international socialism; fascism is national socialism. The first wants to throw everything on the menu into the blender and serve grey, shapeless goo, whereas the latter wants to serve one, and only one dish. Both, however, think they should run all restaurants, you the citizen should just be thankful for whatever they serve...
@@bendakstarkiller1270 you sir win the internet today.
What about democratic libertarian socialism?
ISIS showed that his prediction of Iraq's future was way off. I always find it weird when he defends the Iraq war, it's like he's overly defensive and his confidence turns to a form of anger. Maybe he got too involved with the mechanics of geopolitics, but the hatred of Sadam is definitely a natural feeling.
He was never going to stray from that interventionist viewpoint. He flirted with this moral conquering of countries whom he felt need liberating, but I just do not buy the notion that you liberate peoples by flattening their villages and then leaving to give rise to a power vacuum. The post war planning was dismal and the main selling point for conflict was WMD.
@@gmoose7155 You are either wholly misinformed or downright lazy.
The link between 9/11 and a 'global war on terror' commencing in Iraq is a frail one. Chemical agents yes, but you speak of a consensus on nuclear weaponry when there was such dissent within the intelligence community regarding this issue, unless you yourself are in ownership of knowledge that could have tipped the scales in favour of such a poorly planned conflict, this I doubt. The intelligence community sought to highlight parts of information that substantiated their wants and desires and left opposing parts out. This is blind imperial greed. Iraq halted their nuclear program in 1991 also.
Plan for Iraq? You ask me this as though the possibility of leaving a nation to deal with its affairs its an absurdity. A crime. Unforgivable. And if you take the stance proposing a worldwide moral crusade of sorts then for fucks sake see it all the way through and be all encompassing in your view to 'liberate' and 'free' and do not leave parts out, ie; Rwanda or have zero post conflict infrastructure, socio economic planning etc.
Laziness.
The state of Iraq now is more to do with US military incompetence than political naivety.
The baby boomerangers as Hitch named them, are now leading the revolt in Iran. As usual he was right on the money in both his assessment and prediction.
I wish I could have explained Saddam the way Chris did. My Oregon "friends" wouldn't have a bar of it. That was then. Now there is no conversation in the whole of the USA that I am aware of.
I watch all Hitch content annually and I always cringe when I hear him cough or clear his throat, he didn’t know it at the time but I wish he got it checked. He does say his cancer was so specific it would’ve needed a doctor to actually be looking for that specific cancer to have found it.
RIP Christopher.
He was clearing his throat in that way back in the 1980's. A polyp that went nasty later perhaps but just as likely a nervous habit.
So counter intuitive to my political beliefs ..I think I'm being converted to a Conservative Hawk ? I usually adore and agree with Hitchens ..but this is hard for me say that Bush Sr. and Jr. and Halliburton was a Good Force for Justice . Am I miss interpreting this bigger message ? May we all admit it's impossible to tell ,unless we are physically witnessing the facts in real human life circumstances . At least he had the fortitude , courage and desire to pay witness to these situations .
He saw the wickedness of putin rightly through
On the other hand Tony Blare and Bush are outstanding humanitarians.
The only thing that I don't always agree with is descriptions of some dictatorships as 'psychopathic'. I tend to think that slot of these are more 'sociopathic' rather than psychopathic. Psychiatrists often tend to think that some psychopaths can be treated in hospitals while a sociopath, or groups of them simply can't be treated, changed, or rehabilitated.
Saddam was a sociopath ??? I don't think so dude!
I wonder what he would've said about Israel teaming up with Saudi Arabia and using their airspace
This many years later. Would still be nice to see Persians get their country back.
I loved Hitch, but the turn he took after 9/11 left him making predictions of which, none came true or have proven to be true.
He became a bit too enamored with a militaristic response and stance toward the Middle East which the history of the last 15 years has shown to be mistaken
Hollywood should make a movie on Christopher hitchens' s life.
I miss him, but I always say- continue with your skills. I write and this is my way. Other can do what they do best and I think he would have wanted us to do our best. For science and search for the truth and not just believe
None of this came to pass. The brutal regime is solidly intrenched and continues to support world terrorists like Hamas. RIP to Mr. Hitchens.
just imagine if he was around to experience the donald,whew....
i don't think he would have waited 2 minutes to call the orange turd a moron
He was right about everthing.
even booze
@@howardlovecraft750 How so?
@@howardlovecraft750 Billy Graham was a snaikeoil Salesman and a fraud. Screw him and all those other TV Evangelicals
Imagine Hitch’s take on 2021... instead we have Idiocracy meets The Handmaids Tale meets Brave New World.
he knew it all...
Ah i love that look... Almighty love
Whoever it is who does the overlaid graphic which spells axis as A X E S is in need of education. Please, no phony outrage. Thank you for the footage.
does anyone have a link to the footage referenced?
This was originally recorded in 2005. He died six years later.
Anyone who disses Hitch hasn't read his works. Try his "Arguably" collection of essays.
He looks like bill hicks in the last year of his life in that thumbnail
Gone too soon 😢