Allistair Cooke: 'Decadence vs. Vitality'

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  • Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024

Комментарии • 34

  • @bscottb8
    @bscottb8 13 лет назад +14

    "Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline."

  • @joeleicht5764
    @joeleicht5764 8 лет назад +5

    Wow. And Mr. Cooke could see this coming as far back as 1973? Prophetic words.

  • @obamabinladen5055
    @obamabinladen5055 3 года назад +4

    what a cultured, foresighted man.

  • @videoclog
    @videoclog 12 лет назад +6

    Cooke saw it coming!

  • @heyyyyyynow
    @heyyyyyynow 9 лет назад +8

    "Big Daddy" should provide, for the people who need it, and cut it off when they have enough.
    A shame on people who abuse the system.

    • @kasranov
      @kasranov  2 года назад +1

      It's a hard decision, to adjudicate need. Heartless to offer nothing. Wasteful to give too much, foolish to give to the merely lazy. Not sure there is a winning formula here..

  • @xarophti
    @xarophti 13 лет назад +4

    even more timely now than when originally filmed.

  • @mattwoolley
    @mattwoolley 3 года назад +3

    And decadence is winning. 2021.

    • @kasranov
      @kasranov  3 года назад

      Perhaps it only seems this way if you pay close attention to the news. I suggest a "news diet" for 2021... ^_^

  • @MajesticOak
    @MajesticOak 7 лет назад +3

    I have the book (yes there's a companion book to the tv series, found it in a yard sale) and it's absolutely worth a read!

  • @tomhunter1087
    @tomhunter1087 2 года назад +1

    I wanted to upload a brief excerpt from the episode, The Huddled Masses, where Cooke talks about a typical day in the life of a NYC Democrat politician. The clip is only 3:23 long but it's hitting the copyright problem. How did you get around that for this clip? Thanks in advance.

    • @kasranov
      @kasranov  Год назад

      No idea. All I know is the BBC preventing the wider dissemination of these documentaries is borderline criminal.

  • @TheGeoDaddy
    @TheGeoDaddy 5 лет назад +3

    Forgotten peoples... like American Citizens who have been told - we - must take a backseat to Illegals, refugees, H1Bs and just about everyone else in the world... our politicians say “Just PAY your taxes and SHUT UP!” (And don’t worry about the $60K Of Debt we’ve run up in your name)

  • @garybsg
    @garybsg 13 лет назад +2

    @watayapupuya "the first sign a man has no argument is when he begins to insult" :)

  • @jackster1212
    @jackster1212 15 лет назад

    Powerful insight from *36 years ago*... wisely put.

  • @dropnbucket
    @dropnbucket 12 лет назад +1

    A true prophet from 1973. If you look at our current situation in America, you can see all the signs of decay. We are quickly becoming a third world country.

  • @dgetzin
    @dgetzin 12 лет назад +1

    What section in which episode is this from?

    • @mencken8
      @mencken8 3 года назад +1

      Ep. 13, toward the end.

  • @marthamclaughlin7010
    @marthamclaughlin7010 3 года назад +2

    our politicians are of the lowest . they try to create dependency

  • @itsaguinness
    @itsaguinness 14 лет назад +1

    Alistair is talking about 1973 while it really does define US in present time. sad.

  • @magillabiscuits
    @magillabiscuits 15 лет назад

    Yikes. And they didn't even have reality TV in 1973.

  • @franklinfalco9069
    @franklinfalco9069 5 лет назад

    Americans are always arguing over questions of right and wrong. Decline is possible but not inevitable. Things may have been better in the past in some ways but the seeds of our problems were planted long ago. They didn't just spring up from nowhere. The breakdown of the african american family has its roots in the seperation of black babies from their mothers, for example.

  • @garybsg
    @garybsg 13 лет назад

    @watayapupuya you should stop believing everything you hear on CBS, NBC, PBS and the New York Times. Learn to critically think and stop with the tired left-wing platitudes.

  • @clarkewi
    @clarkewi 14 лет назад

    Wow. Is that prophetic or what???? The decadence won - as evidenced by passage of "Gay rights" in the military.

  • @primeaardvark646
    @primeaardvark646 3 года назад

    Whaaaaaaaaaat!!!