If Gore Vidal was alive today he would be horrified to see how accurate his prophecies were.
@ergbudster3333
4 жыл бұрын
No. He would be totally aware as he knew far in advance of everyone else what was coming.
@Larkinchance
4 жыл бұрын
@@ergbudster3333 agreed
@musiciansvanguard
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this post.
@Charmagh110
10 ай бұрын
36:21
@pattismithurs9023
4 жыл бұрын
Around 18 mins starts his second speech, and it is not to be missed. It is an American history lesson you never heard at school (how could you?) and as vital now as it was then. His usual brilliance, indeed. Thank God for youtube, where Gore Vidal's wisdom might never die.
@brainsareus
4 жыл бұрын
He never failed to kick ass.
@gordygibson4558
6 жыл бұрын
Gore Vidals genius - the pursuit of truth is sorely missed. (Please upload as many talks/speeches as possible)
@robertrichard6107
5 жыл бұрын
My high school counselor highly suggested I read Gore's book '1876' back around 1970. So I plodded through it Sophmore to Junior year. It really gave me answers to what happened to Lincoln's so called Republican party, and a good backgroud to the gilded age and how the 20th Century 'Full Catastrophe' happened. I've enjoyed his other books since. Without cost he received, without cost he has given.
@charliemorris2338
4 жыл бұрын
What a smart man,and we always seem to silence the truth tellers because it is too much to bear.
@janetmcwilliams1053
9 жыл бұрын
only just found him hes amazing why didn't I hear or see him before
@2hopskipjump2
9 жыл бұрын
+Janet Mc Williams I found Gore via Christopher Hitchens, and a brilliant documentary on Gore I came across on tv. KZitem is a lot of things, but one of the good things is if you look for one person you'll also find other great people like Gore.
@janetmcwilliams1053
8 жыл бұрын
Yes iv found Hitchens too but havent yet heard his stuff must have a look
@quinnorsomething
8 жыл бұрын
+Janet Mc Williams shame Vidal and hitchens feel olut over the iraq war,
@GlintzKollide
8 жыл бұрын
He was an absolute gem. Hitchens was a great essayist (almost on par with Vidal) and Chomsky continues to be an incontestable fact master. Vidal, who had both of those qualities in spades, was the hands-down funniest.
@tarnopol
6 жыл бұрын
I’m jealous! You have a lot of wonderful novels and essays in front of you. It’s been 2 years since you commented, but in case you haven’t gotten to ‘em and want the advice of some random internet lunatic, I’d read the following: Novels-Burr, Lincoln, Creation, and Myra Breckenridge. They’re almost all great-at least since Julian in 1964-but those four are the tops, I think. Essays-just get his United States and leave it by the bed. You’ll thank me. Agree or not, he writes like a dream, doesn’t give a damn to follow any party line, and above all he has wit. Real wit.
@37Dionysos
7 жыл бұрын
The Constitution says "all rights not enumerated herein shall reside with THE PEOPLE." (It also dictates that foreign citizens "under the power of the government" shall have the same rights for that time as American citizens. Oops, that's gone too.)
@srmcriclesinthenight9317
7 жыл бұрын
He means a lot to me.
@dogcatparty7371
5 жыл бұрын
At 1:18 interesting comment on the Bill of Rights (seldom discussed in the mass media). October 2019
@subversivelysurreal3645
5 жыл бұрын
“ Such highbrow programs as Merve Griffin...” Solar-Energy, pointedly prompted in the 1980’s! 🤦🏻♀️
@37Dionysos
7 жыл бұрын
59:00---"Eisenhower always read his [cue] cards with a real sense of discovery."
@8385207
6 жыл бұрын
Where are they now when they're needed?
@Leibo07
7 жыл бұрын
Well roared, lion.
@neilpollicino80
25 күн бұрын
His words & keen insight live on through videos like this. Pass it on, please pass it on until we’ve built a network of enlightened Americans.
@connoroleary591
15 күн бұрын
He knows so well how to manipulate whatever audience he is speaking to, how to flatter and insinuate that they are all part of a very clever and exclusive club. Unfortunately, he repeata his stories so often that you begin to see the narcissist grinning beneath the patrician mask.
@brainsareus
4 жыл бұрын
I always thought those who saw the Constitution as a pristine, literal, hermetically sealed all-encompassing guide for life and governing; to be living in an opportunist science fiction reality.
@itascaparkk
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting! I read the Drugs essay many years ago, but it`s so good to listen to him read it.
@claudenobles3826
2 жыл бұрын
brilliant linguistic judo
@ponceperales1041
4 жыл бұрын
September 2020. Reading Julian.
@goodboybuddy1
6 жыл бұрын
I love you Gore, wherever you are.
@jacobjorgenson9285
5 жыл бұрын
goodboybuddy1 he’s dead
@ergbudster3333
4 жыл бұрын
He is in the grave.. but his ideas live.. among the intelligent and the honest. All who honor truth will revere Gore Vidal.
@37Dionysos
7 жыл бұрын
THANKS (though the audio gaps really hurt, and more info on sources is needed). Every citizen seeking education should hear every minute. And who else could cite the first American schoolbooks, the ol' McGuffey Reader? Find one---a horrifying imperial racist hoot that's still fueling nightmare.
@jake105
7 жыл бұрын
I only knew of the McGuffey Reader from Steve McQueen movie, Nevada Smith!
@jake105
7 жыл бұрын
OMG! I really hope his comments regarding governing doesn't come to pass. Start at 13:00
@Allen1029
8 жыл бұрын
"You may well whistle..."
@dentonfender8872
5 жыл бұрын
My two favorite scholars, and patriots---Gore Vidal, and Christopher Hitchen's. I commend you tube for having them on their website. Even though I have read some of their books like God is not Great, it always is better to actually watch, and listen to the Artist. I wish Gore, and Hitchen's were alive today to take on the idiots that are attempting to subvert our country into Totalitarianism. It concerns me that only 18,532 views on Gore's 80's speeches. I found a you tube website that had 137,000,000 views on burning bunches of matches. What Gore, and Hitchen's has to say is so important to our nation. Trump wants dictatorship, and is using the fanatics to get it.
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