He definitely wouldn’t be for either political candidate and definitely be disappointed with society and the political sphere. Both sides are the issue and it started with the democratic extremism with Clinton and then the republicans took it and did it better because they have richer lobbyists. Today’s climate is terrible and communism never works. And we also fucked up extremely bad when the gold standard was removed in 1971 and before that when they started taxing more heavily. People usto be able to raise 8 kids with the wife being able to stay at home with no high school diploma or diploma at all. We manufacture nothing we export everything making us mass lenders because we buy these products with American bonds and then most of the American people are mass lenders living off credit. Unless we make a whole new system we’re doomed for failure. And wether you want to hear it or not climate change is real, more severe and frequent disasters and just look at the temperature records. I encourage everyone to actually educate them selves listen to everyone but always always always no matter how articulate or charismatic someone is LOOK UP WHAT THEY SAY we have access to all the knowledge of everything we could every imagine at our finger tips but we choose to just listen to people opinions that sound good. We’re amazing if you told someone 300 years ago we could make tons of metal fly you would be called insane. The sky is always the limit but we cannot fear change because fearing change stops prosperity. What if the masses in Britain that were the back bone of the old uk by being the physical cogs in a machine living in decrepit conditions decided to just not, decided to stick to theyre old lifestyles and habits because they fear change. Moral of my message get information from both sides of any story you can by doing your own research, embrace change, we need to change from currency to money (yes there’s a difference) or we’re doomed in eternal growing debt, have a brain but also have a heart. My old English teacher told me two things I’ll never forget it’s better to be a warrior in a garden then a gardener in a war. You could be a king or a street sweeper but one day we all dance with the grim reaper.
Because journalists communicated in whole sentences, understood the parts of speech, syntax, and put their communicative energies towards the search for truth, not sophistry and obfuscation. We have to take inspiration from Jack Beatty. We have a lot to learn from his journalistic integrity.
Not really that subtle. It's more like a jarring reality of how effective the dumbing down of society has had. No need to read the increase your vocabulary section of Readers Digest when you can just watch a few David Hoffman videos from the past. We all let this happen. I am reminding of Orwell's last interview.
@@diamondballs1135 stuttering is common when you want to say so much at once, your mind agrees and it does both and once. Which for some reason the human tongue can not accentuate, so a stutter starts. Same as Biden, he isn't perfect, buf neither is a immature gentleman who insults those, mocking is not sincere in its form of flattery or revaluation unless you wish to open the book on how horribly revolting one can be.
Almost everything I get off amazon is made in china (just the way it is) and it tends to work as intended. Not the way it was when I was a kid! Made in China back then meant it would fall apart QUICK.
Doc Brown - "No wonder this circuit failed, it says 'Made in Japan'." Marty McFly - "Whaddaya mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan." Doc Brown - "Unbelievable!"
I’m gonna call this opinion out. The 60s and 70s never softened America. The exporting of jobs elsewhere to China and other countries handicapped the USA
Regardless of my political disagreements with Jack (I've got plenty), he is definitely a great guy to talk to, and definitely a great listen. Thankfully he is still alive today.
I can't help but to feel these Boomers are confusing their childhood and adolescent visions of the world for the general view of the world at the time. I just recently purchased a 1957 U.S. and World News Report with headlines like "SYRIA: Newest Threat in Middle East" and "Is the U.S. lagging in science?" It seems to me that educated adults were very aware of their country's place in the world, while children and teens, and probably their suburban parents, were not. This does not strike me as very different from the situation today. I grew up in the 1990s, and let me tell you, I never for a second considered the plight of other countries nor did my parents. We were simple folk living simple suburban lives. I had to take the initiative to travel and learn about the world on my own and now am an educated Millenial adult who knows more about geopolitics than my Boomer parents. Certainly, the War on Terror forced all of us out of our bubbles to some extent, as happened during the Vietnan War, but it never takes long for the American people to find themselves encased in another one after the wars are over. In all times there are adults who know quite a lot about international geopolitics and adults who don't, and in all times children and adolescents, on the whole, still have a lot to learn about the broader world in which they live. Am I missing something or are the Boomers just taking their own personal story arcs a little too seriously? Still very much appreciate that these were filmed! They are indispensible historical accounts, regardless of whether or not I agree with the speakers.
I like you. I also like sweeping generalizations that turn complex multifaceted histories and turn them into neat and tidy narratives. There's something very alluring about the way these brush strokes characterize a time and allow us to say "ah that's what it was like!" In a way believing that there is some tidy narrative to history is like believing in conspiracy theories; Just another way of applying some familiar form to an event so we can make sense of the senseless or see a face where there are a million faces.
It is historically significant though, that during the 1970's Nixon did open up trade relations with China for the first time. Before the 1970's, almost no products from China were ever imported into this country. America was the number one exporter in all categories. Throughout the 1980's and 1990's, we started to see China and Mexico and Canada stepping out there. Yes we were always involved in foreign conflicts, but what is meant by isolation is the economy. America was really unaffected economically by no one else, and the oil crisis was really the first taste of a world economy reaching back to Americans at home.
It's a fairly common phenomenon of illusory superiority. Where a person or people overestimate their abilities and importance. It's a really common thing, most of us do this, but it's not something that you would necessarily want to or try to change about yourself. Confidence is a desirable quality and caution is often viewed as weakness. But we muddle on anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it. IDK whatever dude.
When discussing the decline of American production jobs in the auto and steel and defense industries and such it's equally important to discuss the shift of those workers into the service industry. In 1965 a man with little skills or education could get a job in the town factory doing unskilled labor, probably screwing in the same dashboard over and over all day, with opportunities for advancement, and it provided a salary where he could afford a home and his wife could stay home and raise the kids and there was even money for college sometimes. Now those factories are replaced by a sea of chain restaurants and box stores. Walmart is the town factory in some places. Fundamentally, is there much difference between having a high school education and screwing in the same dashboard over and over in a factory and the guy in a McDonald's kitchen working a repetitive assembly line? You're not going to get the kind of opportunities to succeed at McDonald's (I would know, I put in more years than I care to admit), plus you're viewed as a loser. Guys who worked in the local Ford plant were big stud heroes with kick ass union jobs with benefits. McDonald's guy gets free McRib's. I knew an older guy, had a kid a few years older than me at school and was a member of the church at the Catholic school parish I grew up in. He'd been in the defense industry throughout the entire Cold War and found himself laid off in the early 90's, pure Michael Douglas in Falling Down situation. He wound up working at McDonald's at like 60. When I turned 16 in 1995 I got hired at a nearby McDonald's, he was still with the company and came to my store to help out one day, was strange. I think he was with them a long time, probably into his 70s until his health went downhill.
I should amend that. For a very brief time when the Coivd shutdowns began, fast food workers and store cashiers were considered "essential heroes." I'm glad they got some respect. Hopefully it got em some hero action with the ladies, like Firemen after 9/11.
I believe factory closures , have contributed to the homeless crisis . People that were marginal in society, use to drink hard , did not save much or have much , but they went to work at the factory every working day .After work they drank and also on their days off , but most of the time they did show up for work at the factory .
It's funny how that interview is as much a reflection about the 80s than the 60s, what with all the concern about Japan. Also: 1989 - "Friend tells me the Japanese will be having their 60s soon, their big change." 1991 - The bubble bursts. Yeppp. Prescient.
I really enjoy this person’s interviews. He is very intelligent and perceptive. Of course he was wrong about the big economic picture, but he nails the change in the concept of happiness and self-realization.
The US still rules the world, but now it's only through brute force (their millitary) and not through the economy. Not saying it didn't rule through the millitary back then.
Have you ever given any of your films to the National Archives? Not to be morbid, but if something happened to you tomorrow, are your films going to be saved?
The National Archives in my experience is not the place to put my kind of stuff. It falls into this area where it is almost impossible to find and just remains in their library like an old library. Books nobody sees.TH-cam it appears to me is the best place to hold my archives as it will be available to people forever. And I see it as a major part of the legacy I am leaving my family. Right now, everything is stored on hard drives. The best I can afford. Not great.Thank you for asking.David Hoffman - filmmaker
David, I seriously think that instead of the National Archives, you should donate to the Smithsonian. I heard the curator on C-span describe how they look for just these kinds of unique cultural details for each era that they catalogue (for example, they're building up artifacts on the riots in Ferguson and Baltimore to catalogue the current era).
Mr Hoffmann, greetings from Ireland! Is there any possibility of watching this interview with Jack Beatty in its entirety (I see it’s broken up into clips on your channel but I don’t know what order they come in). He’s a very well spoken man and his observations are very interesting to listen to. If it’s not possible to post the full interview that’s fine of course, I just wanted to ask. Ps: been watching this channel on and off for the past 3 years, you have captured some very very insightful material over the years, and to be honest I wish more of the internet contained content of this quality. Thanks again!
Interesting how 50's conservatism appears to have been better for the collective and the 60's "collectivism," was really about the individual, the results of each era now quite apparent. Stolid, stoic, and stable seems to have little chance against sex, drugs,, and rock-n-roll or its contemporaneous analogs. A pity.
Wow! A mere few decades. Hard to believe. But also reason to hope that we can go back to the good parts in a decade IF we make a conscious turn around. And we couldn’t possibly resuscitate the bad parts of Ben if we wanted to because what’s gone is gone. But can’t we reclaim the good together, please? 😊 That precious sense of pure and absolute duty that this gentleman talked about. We have lost a lot more than we have gained for losing it for whatever abstract thing we thought we would gain…
Ignorant of what?Are you?I read, I know where Europe is.I've holidayed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.I lived a summer in Rio de Janeiro.Never been to Mardi Gras though....Does that make me ignorant?Help me out, Idk!
One perspective. I'm 67. I don't see any nation (or group of nations eg, EU) providing greater or better leadership on the int'l front than the US. After Europe destroyed itself in WW, we rebuilt it. After Japan desttoyed itself in WWII we rebuilt it, We've enabled China's development thtough blind largesseand greed. There are no other peoples that are like Anericans. We're still the best.
Mr. Roberts; I could not agree with you more! We are the most generous and the most sacrificial nation in the history of the planet. This great country has caused more people to be free than any other nation in the history of mankind!! God Bless America!!!
Don't pretend that the US didn't have a large role to play in destroying Europe and Japan, though of course both Germany and Japan were the aggressors. The US stepped in to rebuild because the US government feared Communist influence in Europe and Asia, hell the Italian Communist Party almost won the election of 1947. Also the US needed to build up a future market for American products in the post-war era.
yes, we ruled the world because the rest of the industrial world had been destroyed during WWII. There is no argument about that. By the mid to late sixties that ended as these other countries rebuilt and were hungry to succeed.
This is what I see with the 1960s. The cultural changes of the 1960s didn't soften America. It was a cacophony of forces coming together. The counterculture movement of the 1960s had its roots in the 1950s. The hippies of the 1960s were the beatniks of the 1950s. The 1950s were about trying to suppress the beatnik movement, to keep it over there in the shadows. The 1960s pushed the alot of those forces into the public. Many people were already questioning alot of things in the 1950s. In the 1960s and 70s, factories started laying off and going overseas. And then many factories found they could stay, and produce more with fewer people. Automation was taking place in the 1960s. More could be produced with less. Gary Works Steel Mill, of Gary, IN employs about 5,000 people today (and I'm willing to bet most of those workers don't live in Gary). It went from employing about 30,000 people in the 1970s to 6,000 in 1990. When it was found you could produce more with fewer people, that is what happened.
Born in 1950, Air Force brat, got raised D.C., TX, Azores, Tx, Colorado, Germany 63-66, Randolph AFB High School '68 grad. Back talk a cop? Never. 18 and counting genders? Just the two and the love that dare not speak its name. Different times and different people. Americans don't get abroad enough or learn languages. But everybody is still trying to get here for some reason.
This is of course said with 20/20 hindsight, but had the US not been so 'secure' in the notion that most countries would return our kindness, and believed that our only really adversary in the '60s was the USSR, we might've been better prepared to actually defend ourselves. Had we not squandered so many resources in Vietnam (to gain...what, exactly?), we might've weathered the '70s much better. Had we not been ready to sell our souls for the sake of convenience, then would Japan or any other country have been so easily able to do as they did? Mostly, I wish that we had taught ourselves a bit more humility then; it would have served us well now.
When we were booming (and bombing) in the 1960s, China was an agricultural backwater, and Japan and Europe were still rebuilding from WWII devastation. When Europe and the East started to rise, they exposed America’s weaknesses: its substandard public education and health care systems, its lack of public investment, and its penchant for electing Republicans who give nearly all of the national income to the wealthiest. Forty years after this interview, we still haven’t learned.
Who says everyone lives for instant gratification in the USA?Do you? I don't eat in fast food joints. Rarely watch US tele.I cook at home.But.....I did just buy two pairs of shoes, a pair of trainers, and a pair ofhalf dress half duty type shoes.Oh...…and I did just order six bottles of sparkling wine for the upcoming holidays,2019. Self gratifications? Maybe, at least, once a year...….I also drive a twenty eight year old car. It was bought new in 1992.It still travels well for what I drive it for. Guilty?
@@brucemarsico6 you're also commmenting on a youtube video... not exactly the place to argue you don't also consume(media consumption is still consumption)
Were the sixties about bumping into all kinds of limits? Socially, the limits of how long democracy could coexist with Jim Crow. Economically, the limits of scarcity to which even an economy as dominant as America's had to bow. Are we in a similar place today? Economically we face once more scarcity and trade-offs in an immediately felt way. Culturally the limits of individualism without sufficient republican commitments. And finally, are we butting up against the limits of the human psyche? Has competitive society become ruthlessly competitive enough so as to ask what is incompatible with humanness of human beings?
watching all these videos i've realized and enjoyed the lack of use of the word "like" 10 times per sentence, which you hear nowadays all the time. saying this as a 25 year old, we need to speak better lol.
We still rule the world. When you think about client states when you think about or closest competitor China, do you think about Europe for developed Asian countries? You should think you are Africa, some places in the Middle East and poorer Asian countries. This isn't that we are not in a downward spiral. But you can expect more draconian measures to keep that world dominance. We don't live in in America that out works the world any more. If China does win, they deserve it.
And today japan lost all relevance but the us regained it after 2008 with the creation of the new economy: economy of innovation, of social media, smartphones and their endless applications. But south korea, Vietnam and mainly China might outshine America after the coronavirus crisis... By the way- Japan, Korea, Vietnam and China, all nations that America fought against. And lost to Vietnam, North Korea and China (though technically, the Chinese gave a "victory" for the north korean when they were about to lose)
The US didn't lose in Korea. NK wanted to unify the peninsula, they failed. The US/UN goal was saving the South, and they succeeded. MacArthur wanted to conquer the North, and that failed but the overall objective was a success.
Please interview this man today.
Seconded. Also, "Beatty 2019 reacts to Beatty 1989" would be an irresistible segment of the update interview.
@@Theomite Excellent idea!
He definitely wouldn’t be for either political candidate and definitely be disappointed with society and the political sphere. Both sides are the issue and it started with the democratic extremism with Clinton and then the republicans took it and did it better because they have richer lobbyists. Today’s climate is terrible and communism never works. And we also fucked up extremely bad when the gold standard was removed in 1971 and before that when they started taxing more heavily. People usto be able to raise 8 kids with the wife being able to stay at home with no high school diploma or diploma at all. We manufacture nothing we export everything making us mass lenders because we buy these products with American bonds and then most of the American people are mass lenders living off credit. Unless we make a whole new system we’re doomed for failure. And wether you want to hear it or not climate change is real, more severe and frequent disasters and just look at the temperature records. I encourage everyone to actually educate them selves listen to everyone but always always always no matter how articulate or charismatic someone is LOOK UP WHAT THEY SAY we have access to all the knowledge of everything we could every imagine at our finger tips but we choose to just listen to people opinions that sound good. We’re amazing if you told someone 300 years ago we could make tons of metal fly you would be called insane. The sky is always the limit but we cannot fear change because fearing change stops prosperity. What if the masses in Britain that were the back bone of the old uk by being the physical cogs in a machine living in decrepit conditions decided to just not, decided to stick to theyre old lifestyles and habits because they fear change. Moral of my message get information from both sides of any story you can by doing your own research, embrace change, we need to change from currency to money (yes there’s a difference) or we’re doomed in eternal growing debt, have a brain but also have a heart. My old English teacher told me two things I’ll never forget it’s better to be a warrior in a garden then a gardener in a war. You could be a king or a street sweeper but one day we all dance with the grim reaper.
@@karrupt487 partisanship started with Reagan actually.
@@OakhillSailor by definition every politician of any government foreign or American is partisan 🤦🏽♂️
The general vocabulary of yesteryear is a subtle joy.
man this doesn’t qualify as yesteryear yet!!!! C’mon!!
edit: for future reference, “yesteryear” happened before MY lifetime
Right on, man…people now are just so UPTIGHT!
Because journalists communicated in whole sentences, understood the parts of speech, syntax, and put their communicative energies towards the search for truth, not sophistry and obfuscation. We have to take inspiration from Jack Beatty. We have a lot to learn from his journalistic integrity.
Not really that subtle. It's more like a jarring reality of how effective the dumbing down of society has had. No need to read the increase your vocabulary section of Readers Digest when you can just watch a few David Hoffman videos from the past. We all let this happen. I am reminding of Orwell's last interview.
@@diamondballs1135 stuttering is common when you want to say so much at once, your mind agrees and it does both and once. Which for some reason the human tongue can not accentuate, so a stutter starts. Same as Biden, he isn't perfect, buf neither is a immature gentleman who insults those, mocking is not sincere in its form of flattery or revaluation unless you wish to open the book on how horribly revolting one can be.
I'm 60 and I can remember that "Made in Japan" was the biggest joke...Not anymore! The times, they are a changin'.
Not just changing. All changed already, a long time ago.
Almost everything I get off amazon is made in china (just the way it is) and it tends to work as intended. Not the way it was when I was a kid! Made in China back then meant it would fall apart QUICK.
made in japan was a joke because in our arrogant ignorance we dismissed them as irrelevant
my Yaesu radios are made in Japan. they are among the best radios you can own
Doc Brown - "No wonder this circuit failed, it says 'Made in Japan'."
Marty McFly - "Whaddaya mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."
Doc Brown - "Unbelievable!"
I’m gonna call this opinion out. The 60s and 70s never softened America. The exporting of jobs elsewhere to China and other countries handicapped the USA
I'd say it hardened America
Regardless of my political disagreements with Jack (I've got plenty), he is definitely a great guy to talk to, and definitely a great listen. Thankfully he is still alive today.
I can't help but to feel these Boomers are confusing their childhood and adolescent visions of the world for the general view of the world at the time. I just recently purchased a 1957 U.S. and World News Report with headlines like "SYRIA: Newest Threat in Middle East" and "Is the U.S. lagging in science?" It seems to me that educated adults were very aware of their country's place in the world, while children and teens, and probably their suburban parents, were not. This does not strike me as very different from the situation today. I grew up in the 1990s, and let me tell you, I never for a second considered the plight of other countries nor did my parents. We were simple folk living simple suburban lives. I had to take the initiative to travel and learn about the world on my own and now am an educated Millenial adult who knows more about geopolitics than my Boomer parents. Certainly, the War on Terror forced all of us out of our bubbles to some extent, as happened during the Vietnan War, but it never takes long for the American people to find themselves encased in another one after the wars are over.
In all times there are adults who know quite a lot about international geopolitics and adults who don't, and in all times children and adolescents, on the whole, still have a lot to learn about the broader world in which they live. Am I missing something or are the Boomers just taking their own personal story arcs a little too seriously?
Still very much appreciate that these were filmed! They are indispensible historical accounts, regardless of whether or not I agree with the speakers.
I like you. I also like sweeping generalizations that turn complex multifaceted histories and turn them into neat and tidy narratives. There's something very alluring about the way these brush strokes characterize a time and allow us to say "ah that's what it was like!"
In a way believing that there is some tidy narrative to history is like believing in conspiracy theories; Just another way of applying some familiar form to an event so we can make sense of the senseless or see a face where there are a million faces.
It is historically significant though, that during the 1970's Nixon did open up trade relations with China for the first time. Before the 1970's, almost no products from China were ever imported into this country. America was the number one exporter in all categories. Throughout the 1980's and 1990's, we started to see China and Mexico and Canada stepping out there. Yes we were always involved in foreign conflicts, but what is meant by isolation is the economy. America was really unaffected economically by no one else, and the oil crisis was really the first taste of a world economy reaching back to Americans at home.
@@AKmacintosh See what you did. And I approve. For what it's worth.
It's a fairly common phenomenon of illusory superiority. Where a person or people overestimate their abilities and importance. It's a really common thing, most of us do this, but it's not something that you would necessarily want to or try to change about yourself. Confidence is a desirable quality and caution is often viewed as weakness. But we muddle on anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it. IDK whatever dude.
Boomers lesson from there authoritarian parents was to be narcissistic.
When discussing the decline of American production jobs in the auto and steel and defense industries and such it's equally important to discuss the shift of those workers into the service industry. In 1965 a man with little skills or education could get a job in the town factory doing unskilled labor, probably screwing in the same dashboard over and over all day, with opportunities for advancement, and it provided a salary where he could afford a home and his wife could stay home and raise the kids and there was even money for college sometimes. Now those factories are replaced by a sea of chain restaurants and box stores. Walmart is the town factory in some places. Fundamentally, is there much difference between having a high school education and screwing in the same dashboard over and over in a factory and the guy in a McDonald's kitchen working a repetitive assembly line? You're not going to get the kind of opportunities to succeed at McDonald's (I would know, I put in more years than I care to admit), plus you're viewed as a loser. Guys who worked in the local Ford plant were big stud heroes with kick ass union jobs with benefits. McDonald's guy gets free McRib's.
I knew an older guy, had a kid a few years older than me at school and was a member of the church at the Catholic school parish I grew up in. He'd been in the defense industry throughout the entire Cold War and found himself laid off in the early 90's, pure Michael Douglas in Falling Down situation. He wound up working at McDonald's at like 60. When I turned 16 in 1995 I got hired at a nearby McDonald's, he was still with the company and came to my store to help out one day, was strange. I think he was with them a long time, probably into his 70s until his health went downhill.
I should amend that. For a very brief time when the Coivd shutdowns began, fast food workers and store cashiers were considered "essential heroes." I'm glad they got some respect. Hopefully it got em some hero action with the ladies, like Firemen after 9/11.
I believe factory closures , have contributed to the homeless crisis . People that were marginal in society, use to drink hard , did not save much or have much , but they went to work at the factory every working day .After work they drank and also on their days off , but most of the time they did show up for work at the factory .
I like your hashtags, David. I'd also love to see an interview of him today.
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this man!
It's funny how that interview is as much a reflection about the 80s than the 60s, what with all the concern about Japan.
Also:
1989 - "Friend tells me the Japanese will be having their 60s soon, their big change."
1991 - The bubble bursts.
Yeppp. Prescient.
Bombs countries, assassinates leaders, floods neighborhoods with drugs, steals natural resources
"But how do we become *more* powerful?"
I really enjoy this person’s interviews. He is very intelligent and perceptive. Of course he was wrong about the big economic picture, but he nails the change in the concept of happiness and self-realization.
The US still rules the world, but now it's only through brute force (their millitary) and not through the economy. Not saying it didn't rule through the millitary back then.
The US has the highest GDP in the world
@@BenThePerson123 Which doesn't represent the real well being of its citizens.
@@BenThePerson123
Oh yes, the almighty GDP. As if that was a measure of how well a country is actually doing.
US is ruled by satanic pedophiles now..
I didnt know that America ruled anything? I think it rules a deluded sense of grandeur and insularity
I love this guy! I could listen to him for hours!
Have you ever given any of your films to the National Archives?
Not to be morbid, but if something happened to you tomorrow, are your films going to be saved?
Good question
The National Archives in my experience is not the place to
put my kind of stuff. It falls into this area where it is almost impossible to
find and just remains in their library like an old library. Books nobody sees.TH-cam it appears to me is the best place to hold my
archives as it will be available to people forever. And I see it as a major
part of the legacy I am leaving my family. Right now, everything is stored on
hard drives. The best I can afford. Not great.Thank you for asking.David Hoffman - filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker
Thank you for the answer, and thank you for sharing your work with us.
David, I seriously think that instead of the National Archives, you should donate to the Smithsonian. I heard the curator on C-span describe how they look for just these kinds of unique cultural details for each era that they catalogue (for example, they're building up artifacts on the riots in Ferguson and Baltimore to catalogue the current era).
Mr Hoffmann, greetings from Ireland!
Is there any possibility of watching this interview with Jack Beatty in its entirety (I see it’s broken up into clips on your channel but I don’t know what order they come in). He’s a very well spoken man and his observations are very interesting to listen to. If it’s not possible to post the full interview that’s fine of course, I just wanted to ask.
Ps: been watching this channel on and off for the past 3 years, you have captured some very very insightful material over the years, and to be honest I wish more of the internet contained content of this quality. Thanks again!
Interesting how 50's conservatism appears to have been better for the collective and the 60's "collectivism," was really about the individual, the results of each era now quite apparent. Stolid, stoic, and stable seems to have little chance against sex, drugs,, and rock-n-roll or its contemporaneous analogs. A pity.
Wow! A mere few decades. Hard to believe. But also reason to hope that we can go back to the good parts in a decade IF we make a conscious turn around. And we couldn’t possibly resuscitate the bad parts of Ben if we wanted to because what’s gone is gone. But can’t we reclaim the good together, please? 😊 That precious sense of pure and absolute duty that this gentleman talked about. We have lost a lot more than we have gained for losing it for whatever abstract thing we thought we would gain…
I now see why other countries think of us Americans as ignorant
Ignorant of what?Are you?I read, I know where Europe is.I've holidayed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.I lived a summer in Rio de Janeiro.Never been to Mardi Gras though....Does that make me ignorant?Help me out, Idk!
I love the USA. Thank you, America for saving Europe. It is too bad that China is taking over - I hope they will fail.
This man has a laser sharp mind. Brilliant, totally spot on.
Thanks!
Your continued support Chuck is much appreciated by David Hoffman.
David Hoffman filmmaker
One perspective. I'm 67. I don't see any nation (or group of nations eg, EU) providing greater or better leadership on the int'l front than the US. After Europe destroyed itself in WW, we rebuilt it. After Japan desttoyed itself in WWII we rebuilt it, We've enabled China's development thtough blind largesseand greed. There are no other peoples that are like Anericans. We're still the best.
Mr. Roberts; I could not agree with you more! We are the most generous and the most sacrificial nation in the history of the planet. This great country has caused more people to be free than any other nation in the history of mankind!! God Bless America!!!
Don't pretend that the US didn't have a large role to play in destroying Europe and Japan, though of course both Germany and Japan were the aggressors. The US stepped in to rebuild because the US government feared Communist influence in Europe and Asia, hell the Italian Communist Party almost won the election of 1947. Also the US needed to build up a future market for American products in the post-war era.
He contributes to On Point on PBS these days (2024)
Notice all the commentary on Japan as a rising power, not about China.
Unemployment 3%!!
yes, we ruled the world because the rest of the industrial world had been destroyed during WWII. There is no argument about that. By the mid to late sixties that ended as these other countries rebuilt and were hungry to succeed.
what you gotta understand is that in the late 80's Japan was the hype of the moment, partly because they were in a huge bubble at the time..
Your hashtag game is strong sir
The VW was produced via hitler, VW means "The Peoples Car". Hippies took it over, Between my wife and I we had 2 vans and a Carmanghia (sc)
This is what I see with the 1960s. The cultural changes of the 1960s didn't soften America. It was a cacophony of forces coming together. The counterculture movement of the 1960s had its roots in the 1950s. The hippies of the 1960s were the beatniks of the 1950s. The 1950s were about trying to suppress the beatnik movement, to keep it over there in the shadows. The 1960s pushed the alot of those forces into the public. Many people were already questioning alot of things in the 1950s. In the 1960s and 70s, factories started laying off and going overseas. And then many factories found they could stay, and produce more with fewer people. Automation was taking place in the 1960s. More could be produced with less. Gary Works Steel Mill, of Gary, IN employs about 5,000 people today (and I'm willing to bet most of those workers don't live in Gary). It went from employing about 30,000 people in the 1970s to 6,000 in 1990. When it was found you could produce more with fewer people, that is what happened.
Born in 1950, Air Force brat, got raised D.C., TX, Azores, Tx, Colorado, Germany 63-66, Randolph AFB High School '68 grad. Back talk a cop? Never. 18 and counting genders? Just the two and the love that dare not speak its name. Different times and different people. Americans don't get abroad enough or learn languages. But everybody is still trying to get here for some reason.
This is of course said with 20/20 hindsight, but had the US not been so 'secure' in the notion that most countries would return our kindness, and believed that our only really adversary in the '60s was the USSR, we might've been better prepared to actually defend ourselves. Had we not squandered so many resources in Vietnam (to gain...what, exactly?), we might've weathered the '70s much better. Had we not been ready to sell our souls for the sake of convenience, then would Japan or any other country have been so easily able to do as they did? Mostly, I wish that we had taught ourselves a bit more humility then; it would have served us well now.
When we were booming (and bombing) in the 1960s, China was an agricultural backwater, and Japan and Europe were still rebuilding from WWII devastation. When Europe and the East started to rise, they exposed America’s weaknesses: its substandard public education and health care systems, its lack of public investment, and its penchant for electing Republicans who give nearly all of the national income to the wealthiest. Forty years after this interview, we still haven’t learned.
Great prescriptive.
Japanese cars lol, wouldn't it be weird if they made video games too
Dallas Boring News and electronics...
To bad America suffers from instant gratification
Who says everyone lives for instant gratification in the USA?Do you? I don't eat in fast food joints. Rarely watch US tele.I cook at home.But.....I did just buy two pairs of shoes, a pair of trainers, and a pair ofhalf dress half duty type shoes.Oh...…and I did just order six bottles of sparkling wine for the upcoming holidays,2019. Self gratifications? Maybe, at least, once a year...….I also drive a twenty eight year old car. It was bought new in 1992.It still travels well for what I drive it for. Guilty?
@@brucemarsico6 you're also commmenting on a youtube video... not exactly the place to argue you don't also consume(media consumption is still consumption)
The Japanese fear of the 80s and 90s did not pan out. They skipped the 60s and have been in the 70s the two decades
They sure did and look at us now.
Whoohoo I was triple 777's
This interview definitely predated the Japanese Lost Decade
"abudhabi. what is that?" lolol
Who is this guy? He has some interesting ideas.
John. Read the description please.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thank you!
Turns out that the Japanese make awesome cars. Hahahahahahahaha!
AND we shall rule again!!
Were the sixties about bumping into all kinds of limits? Socially, the limits of how long democracy could coexist with Jim Crow. Economically, the limits of scarcity to which even an economy as dominant as America's had to bow.
Are we in a similar place today? Economically we face once more scarcity and trade-offs in an immediately felt way. Culturally the limits of individualism without sufficient republican commitments. And finally, are we butting up against the limits of the human psyche? Has competitive society become ruthlessly competitive enough so as to ask what is incompatible with humanness of human beings?
watching all these videos i've realized and enjoyed the lack of use of the word "like" 10 times per sentence, which you hear nowadays all the time. saying this as a 25 year old, we need to speak better lol.
WE HAVE TO GO BACK!
he looks and talks like bradley cooper
We still rule the world. When you think about client states when you think about or closest competitor China, do you think about Europe for developed Asian countries? You should think you are Africa, some places in the Middle East and poorer Asian countries. This isn't that we are not in a downward spiral. But you can expect more draconian measures to keep that world dominance. We don't live in in America that out works the world any more. If China does win, they deserve it.
I should buy this guy's books.
what are they?
I love his condescending tone and delivery....lol.
Lmao.wow. just wow. Smh.
Apollo and Dionysius…Does anybody really think that's a battle that can ever be won? Anyone with a lick of sense knows it has to be a balance.
*_USA USA USA_*
Check out Andrew Yang’s thoughts on UBI and the 4th industrial revolution
William Sanderson Yang is a nutjob.
3:00 "good times" if you were a WASP. Those decades were still brutal to minorities.
How brutal?You write it but you don't explain it...………...
And today japan lost all relevance but the us regained it after 2008 with the creation of the new economy: economy of innovation, of social media, smartphones and their endless applications.
But south korea, Vietnam and mainly China might outshine America after the coronavirus crisis...
By the way- Japan, Korea, Vietnam and China, all nations that America fought against. And lost to Vietnam, North Korea and China (though technically, the Chinese gave a "victory" for the north korean when they were about to lose)
The US didn't lose in Korea. NK wanted to unify the peninsula, they failed. The US/UN goal was saving the South, and they succeeded. MacArthur wanted to conquer the North, and that failed but the overall objective was a success.
This guy's behaviour is awful. He thinks he's king. He thinks he knows everything. He looks v repressed. Waiting for a breakdown.
Soviet > America any day anytime for me