Margaret! I love you! You had saved my lockdown with your book! It has so much resemblance to what is happening... We are living in societies with Stockholm syndrome!
"Yes, you were needed. Every springtime needed you. Even stars relied on your witnessing presence when a gathering wave surged from the past - or when some violin utterly offered itself as you passed by a half-opened window. All this was your mission. Did you discharge it? Were you not ever distracted by anticipation? As if all Creation existed only to signal a mistress? (Where would you keep her? With those great foreign Conjectures coming and going by night as by day?)" Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Margaret Atwood is brilliant. She's always worth reading and listening to. She published, The Handmaid's Tale, in the late 1980s. Now it feels as if we're living it. Nasty old men like Mitch McConnell want to lord it over people just trying to survive and make choices for themselves.
I know that the creative class is hit hard by Corona but it is at least as hard for newly unemployed workers who are now evicted and no longer has health insurance. It’s not that I’m going to hammer on the remark about artists but it was very strange to hear the great Atwood highlight artists singularly.
she and stephen king have spoken out on a ridiculous theme, the one for which to pronounce trans is not correct to indicate a man or a woman and they suggest abolishing this word. but so far it could also end with a good laugh and a fart. instead the two writers attacked Rawling because in her latest novel she used a murderer who dresses as a woman (brian de palma docet). now the level of idiocrazy has reached unthinkable heights.
It hasn't, actually. What happened in Russia (and elsewhere, like China) went / goes under the title 'communism' but in fact the people at the top always have much more than the people at the bottom. Definitionally, that is *not* communism. Communism is an idea on paper that is probably impossible for a species like ours to ever actually carry out in vivo. It devolves into some kind of terrible totalitarianism (which is not what communism is on paper) in the hands of real people. I'm not defending communism, by the way, just pointing out that it has, in fact, never really been tried in earnest and probably never will be.
@@angramainyu2026 it's been tried repeatedly and failed it seems to me because it doesn't understand human nature's desire to achieve. Nobody wants to sit around squandering their potential for some greater good. The greater good comes from the invisible hand of Capitalism where everyone does their best and is rewarded appropriately. Meaning and purpose and status is maximized, channeling natural urges to do something. Criticizing capitalism is good. I don't disagree it needs to find more to do for everyone. Government tries to balance out Capitalism but shouldn't tip it over. Communism has never been a golden.goose for anyone who's tried it. Capitalism has. I don't see how that will change.
What a gorgeous and humble lady. Real talent. Bless her.
i could listen to her all day...shes so calm & serene, and so intelligent...like..wow
Margaret! I love you! You had saved my lockdown with your book! It has so much resemblance to what is happening... We are living in societies with Stockholm syndrome!
"Yes, you were needed. Every springtime needed you.
Even stars relied on your witnessing presence
when a gathering wave surged from the past - or when
some violin utterly offered itself
as you passed by a half-opened window. All this was your mission.
Did you discharge it? Were you not ever distracted
by anticipation? As if all Creation existed
only to signal a mistress? (Where would you keep her?
With those great foreign Conjectures coming and going
by night as by day?)"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
I ADORE MARGARET ATWOOD.....A TRULY GREAT POLITICAL NOVELIST......
Margaret is an amazing author, I used to style her hair @ salon James in Yorkville. She's an incredible author. Bless her.
Sabiena Kalatzis
She is a great thinker.
For the love of God, give her the Nobel Prize.
I would like to be Margret Atwood when I grow up! Intelligence comes out of her pores
Margaret Atwood is brilliant. She's always worth reading and listening to. She published, The Handmaid's Tale, in the late 1980s. Now it feels as if we're living it. Nasty old men like Mitch McConnell want to lord it over people just trying to survive and make choices for themselves.
Great interview, Jerry Portwood. I could listen to Ms. Atwood for a long time.
Thank you for the interview. Very happy to hear from miss Atwood.
Oryx and Crake is an amazing book.
One of the best I’ve read!!
Great woman, Before I did have heard of her. What a pity for me! Have peace in heaven.
Canadian Treasure....check out Alias Grace......AMAZING!!!!the series is on CBC
I love her. Thank you so much for this interview. ❤️
Hi Rolling Stone, I like your content. I love watching your videos.
Loved it !
I never noticed how much she sounds like Noam Chomsky.
What a silly comment.
Cadence more than content.
She really does.
Love this
I know that the creative class is hit hard by Corona but it is at least as hard for newly unemployed workers who are now evicted and no longer has health insurance. It’s not that I’m going to hammer on the remark about artists but it was very strange to hear the great Atwood highlight artists singularly.
she and stephen king have spoken out on a ridiculous theme, the one for which to pronounce trans is not correct to indicate a man or a woman and they suggest abolishing this word. but so far it could also end with a good laugh and a fart. instead the two writers attacked Rawling because in her latest novel she used a murderer who dresses as a woman (brian de palma docet). now the level of idiocrazy has reached unthinkable heights.
Communism's never been tried? Um, what?
It hasn't, actually. What happened in Russia (and elsewhere, like China) went / goes under the title 'communism' but in fact the people at the top always have much more than the people at the bottom. Definitionally, that is *not* communism. Communism is an idea on paper that is probably impossible for a species like ours to ever actually carry out in vivo. It devolves into some kind of terrible totalitarianism (which is not what communism is on paper) in the hands of real people. I'm not defending communism, by the way, just pointing out that it has, in fact, never really been tried in earnest and probably never will be.
@@angramainyu2026 it's been tried repeatedly and failed it seems to me because it doesn't understand human nature's desire to achieve. Nobody wants to sit around squandering their potential for some greater good. The greater good comes from the invisible hand of Capitalism where everyone does their best and is rewarded appropriately. Meaning and purpose and status is maximized, channeling natural urges to do something. Criticizing capitalism is good. I don't disagree it needs to find more to do for everyone. Government tries to balance out Capitalism but shouldn't tip it over. Communism has never been a golden.goose for anyone who's tried it. Capitalism has. I don't see how that will change.