Gore Vidal: The State of the Union

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • DECEMBER 10, 1991 | In a humorous, yet serious, speech called "The State of the Union", Mr. Vidal analyzes current politics, the presidential campaign, the Constitution, and other topics. Mr. Vidal has written a number of novels and plays, including "Myra Breckinridge", "Burr", and "Lincoln", which are satires of American history and life.
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Комментарии • 24

  • @jackbailey7037
    @jackbailey7037 6 лет назад +24

    One of the few who knows what time it is.

  • @ivst3655
    @ivst3655 4 года назад +11

    This speech is as pertinent as 30 years ago, if not even more 😳

  • @greenbeagle13
    @greenbeagle13 4 года назад +6

    He was a brilliant man... Fascinating to listen to these talks. And what he predicted is happening now in our society....

  • @drumwolf100
    @drumwolf100 3 года назад +5

    True genius is never irrelevant and Gore Vidal is genius.

  • @MatewanMassacre
    @MatewanMassacre 9 месяцев назад +1

    He hit on several important points, in that talk, but the most important was detailing the period, between 1945 and 1950, as THE most important 5-year span in US History. Most of our history, since that period, is largely unknown, to us.

  • @Starclimber
    @Starclimber 3 года назад +2

    Thank you. I'm digging up all the Gore Vidalia I was deprived of when it was current, and found this speech particularly 'gemmy' as a geologist might say of a fresh find.

  • @Tracks777
    @Tracks777 7 лет назад +3

    Keep it up! Looking forward for more videos from you, don't stop!

  • @basilpeterson9592
    @basilpeterson9592 4 года назад +7

    It's a big club and you ain't in it.....so it goes

  • @paularnold4981
    @paularnold4981 4 года назад +2

    When Vidal passed America lost a unique character. When Vidal spoke
    he was an honest voice, if a pessimistic one.

  • @AntonioGarmsci-cy5vt
    @AntonioGarmsci-cy5vt 5 лет назад +3

    The Great Gore Vidal!

  • @reidwhitton6248
    @reidwhitton6248 Год назад

    Imagine the media telling these truths to the masses.

  • @thedolphin5428
    @thedolphin5428 Год назад

    My Bliss:
    No clapping by an audience at every agreeable point he spoke.
    Short direct questions via the chair.
    No roaming in-audience microphone for waffling questions.
    Short, witty answers.

  • @edwardrussell7168
    @edwardrussell7168 5 лет назад +2

    What we sow so shall we reap...is time for REAP here now????

    • @COFboy123
      @COFboy123 5 лет назад +1

      Edward Russell it’s time for some sort of metal object to chop off things

  • @Evocatorum
    @Evocatorum 5 лет назад

    49:45 +1 to anyone watching this on with the second impeachment looming in 2019

  • @thedolphin5428
    @thedolphin5428 Год назад +1

    1991 - 2022.
    Nothing has improved.
    Vidal's observations all went unheeded.
    Every point mentioned has worsened.
    No better body politic has emerged.
    No people's revolution has arrived.
    The unipolar US hegemony is being challenged and dismantled.
    The Empire is gradually collapsing from within.
    All good -- from this particular outsider's point of view.

  • @brainsareus
    @brainsareus 4 года назад +2

    Most of the questions are childish and non-nuanced.

  • @dfrenchorn
    @dfrenchorn 5 лет назад

    #NationalDebt as of May 20th 2019: $22,308,198,200,000
    #TrustworthyStatehood #sike

  • @elliemaeclampett2810
    @elliemaeclampett2810 5 лет назад +1

    organized resistance finaly: bernie/tulsi2020.