Margaret Atwood | Full Episode 5.27.22 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

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  • @MellowWind
    @MellowWind Год назад +14

    Excellent discussion. Can't get enough of Atwood. What a clear headed mind.

  • @bjpafa2293
    @bjpafa2293 Год назад +4

    Congrats, madam, thank you so much for your art & 😊insight. 🙏

  • @elenivargis126
    @elenivargis126 2 года назад +11

    So agree Feminism is a subset of Humanism = important point!

  • @sherryripepi6024
    @sherryripepi6024 2 года назад +12

    Knowledge is power. Understanding is wisdom. This is an educational video.

  • @enatp6448
    @enatp6448 2 года назад +13

    Important discussion... Margaret has some relevant insights about democracy and totalitarianism.

    • @theunknowncommenter725
      @theunknowncommenter725 Год назад

      She is a crazy old bag who actually thinks that Star Wars predicted 9/11.

  • @StumpCreekSentinel
    @StumpCreekSentinel 2 года назад +18

    It is so very enlightening to listen to such a conversation that delves deep into the reality which Margaret Atwood foresaw whenever she observed the societal paradigms related to the State's ethics in maintaining a patriarchal authority.

  • @peterdollins3610
    @peterdollins3610 Год назад +9

    Great woman.

  • @ninemoonplanet
    @ninemoonplanet 2 года назад +12

    I thoroughly enjoy seeing and hearing Margaret Atwood. She's able to see the minutiae and the wider perspective simultaneously.
    Living through autocrats, bullies, and still having some optimism is a remarkable feat in itself.
    The MADDAM trilogy is another, a series of books depicting how "technology" can be very bad, can distort human and all species life into some things truly grotesque.
    Her books are deep, sometimes disturbing, but as she says" there's a hole ahead in the road" to warn about going down the road to a place that could be ruinous. Don't.

  • @iamjane9628
    @iamjane9628 2 года назад +11

    Another great episode. Thank you Margaret Atwood and Margaret Hoover!

  • @louiemumbler3222
    @louiemumbler3222 2 года назад +9

    Wowwhat a iinteresting & lovely mind

  • @jamesfrangione8448
    @jamesfrangione8448 2 года назад +9

    In a word, timely. Another great installment.

  • @christopherdean2893
    @christopherdean2893 2 года назад +11

    When fiction becomes nonfiction

    • @theunknowncommenter725
      @theunknowncommenter725 Год назад +1

      In the middle east.

    • @Gretabpooh
      @Gretabpooh Год назад +1

      That's because the right decided her book and 1984 were instruction manuals instead of fiction.

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 3 месяца назад

      ​@@GretabpoohI don't think the Americans want to take these children from mothers who don't want them, but they don't want to educate them or feed them or clothe them or give them medical care.

  • @orpheus9037
    @orpheus9037 2 года назад +11

    As talking heads go, Atwood really is one of the best - she gives great interviews.

    • @nuageceleste3554
      @nuageceleste3554 Год назад +1

      She certainly has that “je ne sais quoi” , powerful and understated simultaneously.

  • @joeyfotofr
    @joeyfotofr 2 года назад +5

    "What does a post Roe v. Wade United States look like?"
    We don't know yet but it looks much different in November than it did in May,
    because the American people stood up & fought back. As to the rest... We'll see...jt

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 2 года назад +9

    Yes - she is Canadian.

  • @62426637
    @62426637 Год назад +3

    The Lives of Others was a fine film. 2014 I believe

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 2 года назад +5

    Love your work Mama Atwood. I studied your book "Surfacing" in high school for my "A" Level.

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 3 месяца назад

      Did you notice the blatant anti-Americanism in it? And the fact that some Canadian were becoming Americanized?

  • @abigailpip112
    @abigailpip112 Год назад +3

    Very interesting. a thoughtful response to questions. I don't think aborttion (aka Roe v Wade) is a feminist issue, killing babies should not be legal in most cases, There are lots of methods of contraception which should be made available to all classes and income groups if they want them, if it's necessary to charge for them then charge rich people much more so as to pay for the poorer people (The origional principle of social welfare) Mothers should get paid for raising children. It's the most important job to raise the next generation who will have to take responsibilty for the world. To farm out this work as is currently done in most western countries is very dangerous. We are already seeing the fruits of this with the number of children suffering from eating disorders, depression etc. and the gang culture which provides "family for youngsters in some neighbourhoods. All of this is disconection, If we had a more caring society these problems would be fewer.

    • @71suns
      @71suns 3 месяца назад

      Condoms and vasectomies (a simple outpatient procedure that's reversible) are widely available. START THERE.

  • @roughhabit6496
    @roughhabit6496 Год назад +1

    No original Firing Line host , no Ronald Reagan, no bringing down the Berlin Wall.

  • @riod.s.2267
    @riod.s.2267 2 года назад +3

    So, when does the money come rolling in? Are we waiting for the checks before we take to the streets in great numbers? Or has the lull of the warming pot put too many of us to sleep?

  • @isaiahbasaldua924
    @isaiahbasaldua924 Год назад +3

    Margaret Atwood is very enlightening in her points of view. I think she is an important figure who is attempting to understand the world we live in.I do believe she is a dying breed of well meaning old school liberals. She is trying to voice good things but she offers no solutions. Such is the error of classic liberalism.

    • @71suns
      @71suns 3 месяца назад +1

      She doesn't have to offer solutions.

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 3 месяца назад

      No, she's a Canadian. The Canadian point of view seems to have impacted Kamala Harris in a big way; however, it's time she stopped the war-mongering.

  • @bjpafa2293
    @bjpafa2293 Год назад +2

    Handmaid's tail in NOT a dystopia.
    It doesn't fit on a concept.
    Distopya us void of hope.
    On the contrary, a novel around multiverse or possible futurs...
    Canada is, actually, a líder Of the free world.
    In a way, if you are in lead, doing, how come?
    USA, Nicolai C in Romania 🇷🇴, forget the dead of night.
    Not a Dystopia.
    Best regards, good riddance!

  • @bearjanman
    @bearjanman Год назад

    Ask Atwood WHAT IS A WOMAN? The hard question they never ask her.

    • @71suns
      @71suns 3 месяца назад +1

      Are you confused dear?