This was amazing, Amis was saying very deep things and the announcer had no idea what he was talking about. When he said we need more division to come back together, and she questioned that, what he meant was the ego won't allow reconciliation until it surrenders to all the havoc it's caused. Incredible this interview even happened.
Excellent comment about the call for more division. It was a complex remark and really begged for a deeper discussion. I liked the interviewer and under the circumstances she did a good job.
@andreww2319 it is interesting though we watching the video now, it makes me think that Amis did not have the insight to realize that Trump did not need to be advised to go after the white supremacist, that Trump knew enough about human nature and the darkness of human nature to do exactly what they go out there by himself. In that group to me Trump has always been a certain kind of Genius. A very dark certain kind.
@@andreww2319re-watching it, you're right, the reporter did do a good job in a way to even question that small little detail of what he said. Though it's amazing right, some 5 minute video clip how are they going to capture the nuance and inside of this man or the situation. It's funny how modern news is, it's like Marshall mcluhan said the medium is the message.
Martin Amis is one of my favourite novelists. There are plenty of people in this comments section that don't know who he is; far fewer that have likely read any of his books.
Ludwig, I enjoyed 'London Fields' very much and haven't yet made my way through the entirety of 'The Moronic Inferno', as he supplies so much research material to look into. I agree that he's an excellent essayist and commentator. As far as commentary and essays on American politics though, I prefer the late Gore Vidal.
I've always felt we needed Christopher Hitchens to help with this nonsense period of history. But having one of his close friends and colleagues will do nicely. I think I've found a new author.
He is my favorite living writer. Start with "Success," then read "Money," then "London Fields." When you're in the mood to have the top of your head blown off, read "The Information." You have so much fun ahead of you!!!
He is a good writer. After listening to him talk about politics I don't think he is a good candidate to replace Christopher Hitchens. His political opinions are pretty commonplace and not backed up by the same breadth of knowledge that Christopher seemed to draw from.
no we definitely DO NOT need that misogynist to help in this society. people like him would have shut down non straight white male voices. it's those men who kept us censored. nobody needs privileged men controlling the conversation.
RIP Martin Amis. Only read three of your books - two novels and collection of novels - but I admire your dedication to your craft and I admire your candour and clarity in interviews.
I think he's only politically correct in the old fashioned sense, in the same he would call himself a leftist liberal. These terms have changed dramatically in recent years away from secularism and a fight for social justice and towards a bigoted, cultist group of regressive liberals who call any attack on Islam racism, any attack on the biological absurdity of transgenderism transphobic, and seemingly without a sense of humour of irony. It's always difficult to know how prevalent these groups are given the social media echo chambers we find ourselves trapped in, but I am sure that much of today's PC left would refuse to associate with Amis over his rightly critical view of Islam, to take the most clear example.
Whatever his feelings about Trump, I'd have expected Amis to have had a more nuanced take on Trump's winning in 2016 rather than saying it was simply because of racism. It's even more disturbing to hear an author endorsing political correctness which is not just about fighting racism, sexism, etc (to give its defenders the benefit of the doubt)...but also about strictly controlling conversation and debate about these matters. Amis may have become a victim of polarized thinking himself.
A writer is necessarily a thinker, and any quality thinker will reach the conclusion that “there is a great convulsion of stupidity happening in the world.”
Not looking so well here, and some accusations he makes against Trump really missed the mark. I wonder how he’d feel now about the Woke and censorship… Fan of his novels but not so much his courting controversy with these wee guest appearances. Little Keith and Hitch were an interesting cultural phenomenon.
Martin is a brilliant man and right about Trump's veniality, but Martin misapprehended American politics at the time of the interview. I wonder what he thinks of PC now.
How about all these BLM demonstrators, you know, the millions in the streets in every US state? This interview is sounding more and more prescient, and at a time when "liberals" were still traumatized about Hillary loosing, and not sure what to make of any of it.
John... I love my white heterosexual Dad, though I think your right-wing talking points have been plagiarised. Do you think yourself a William F. Buckley presenting a "Bill"?
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so you too have bought into the groupthink mass delusion of the obaba cult?
I am loving your books; I also love the fact that you are frank and honest in your opinions; not to mention your scintillating brilliance. I hope I get to meet you one day. I am sorry that I never met your sidekick (pardon me if I offend you) Christopher Hitchens; he too had a dazzling intelligence. I love his books also. I feel that I have been enriched just reading your books.
I think he means being politically correct in discourse about people of minority demographics yk? Islam is not a person, giving people license to be as insulting as they like.
Astonishing. Man who feels a need to be better and more superior to everybody else thinks that everyone else also has a need to feel better and more superior to others. Open and shut case of projecting.
"Populism" just means what the people want. If you're upset that that's taking a right wing turn right now, that is the fault of the Left sadly. Not the people or the Right. They function as their correct function in this system. The Left on the other hand has ran further and further from the enlightenment; diving into post modernist deconstruction and censorious levels of PC culture. If you put up no decent fight, you cant complain you lose.
Good thing you pointed out he was an arse hole right at the start. I might have thought people would take him seriously. And the interviewer must have been in a drama class the day Justine subbed in for the real teacher. She sounded so concerned for Trump's reputation.
No, he's not a great thinker, he's a fictional author. He's bluntly, yet terribly accurate. He just states the facts, uncensored, without embellishments. Some people turn away and wince, others admit concrete truths irrefutable.
@@errgo2713 there are no rules, there is no algorithm, no Euclidean Geometry, escape your perfunctory shackles, are you a person who corrects others pronunciation of words? Tedium will devour your idle fingers* (please make it your life's goal, to read E. M. Cioran's - A SHORT HISTORY OF DECAY). (then come back to me with a correct response s'il vous plait)
No he's not, he was spot on. Trump went on to deny a fair election and fuel riots by insurrectionists on the Capitol, not even the civil war achieved that.
I love amis. I have read all of his novels and ss collections. I thought the war against cliches was an amazing collection of essays. His memoir is a must-read. That said, when he puts his foot into the vortex of american politics he sounds like a utter fool -- or to phrase it slightly more amisian-- he sounds like a true denizen of the moronic inferno. Moreover he is an umbra of his former self. Amis needs to stop pulavering about subjects he barely knows and start fuccing young women, take TRT, and tap into the dionysian energies of his past.
hahahah - the best critique is from people outside of the American asylum - its even funnier how riled up people like you get. He actually said, in agreement with Hitch, that Champagne was overrated.
He is an academic and is disdainful. There is much that is disagreeable, but stick to using logical argument; not tone; or you are trolling. *Trolls do not prove their claims. They cannot rise above the redline of baiting:* _1.They state the opposing case with little or no evidence,2.They criticize others' writing without addressing the argument,3.They engage in personal/ad hominem attacks without addressing the argument, or 4.They engage in bald bare name-calling._
SAM chandler MGTOW A Brit living in the US talking about Trump and you think he's a Canadian talking down to you. Diane is 100% correct about you but she forgot to say that you're a dum-dum. 😂
@@shannongfm9945 I'm guessing I was trying to make a joke about Trump accusing Biden of election fraud and people who were dead being on ballots. I can't remember though.
Pompous arrogance. Ignorance on a pedestal. He knows nothing of America or her people. Exactly why we broke the fetters of British imperialism. America refused such oafish arrogance in 1776. We refuse it still!
This was amazing, Amis was saying very deep things and the announcer had no idea what he was talking about. When he said we need more division to come back together, and she questioned that, what he meant was the ego won't allow reconciliation until it surrenders to all the havoc it's caused. Incredible this interview even happened.
Excellent comment about the call for more division. It was a complex remark and really begged for a deeper discussion. I liked the interviewer and under the circumstances she did a good job.
@andreww2319 it is interesting though we watching the video now, it makes me think that Amis did not have the insight to realize that Trump did not need to be advised to go after the white supremacist, that Trump knew enough about human nature and the darkness of human nature to do exactly what they go out there by himself. In that group to me Trump has always been a certain kind of Genius. A very dark certain kind.
@@andreww2319re-watching it, you're right, the reporter did do a good job in a way to even question that small little detail of what he said. Though it's amazing right, some 5 minute video clip how are they going to capture the nuance and inside of this man or the situation. It's funny how modern news is, it's like Marshall mcluhan said the medium is the message.
His clarity and correctness and getting precisely to the point and his simplicity is wonderful to hear.
He nailed it.
Thank you
Wow, the CBC produced something worth watching. Thank you. Trust a impeccably well mannered British gentleman to hit the nail on the head.
On the nose. Refreshing, clear and concise…thanks Martin.
This lady was a terrible, terrible interviewer. A brilliant and nuanced guest utterly wasted on vapid baiting "shock questions". For shame.
Thats a lot to take from a 4 minute clip?
@@Thumbs81 Exactly - not much 'nuance' on show here.
god shutup
100% ... couldn't agree more - she was so out of her depth it's funny.
Martin Amis is one of my favourite novelists. There are plenty of people in this comments section that don't know who he is; far fewer that have likely read any of his books.
Ludwig, I enjoyed 'London Fields' very much and haven't yet made my way through the entirety of 'The Moronic Inferno', as he supplies so much research material to look into. I agree that he's an excellent essayist and commentator. As far as commentary and essays on American politics though, I prefer the late Gore Vidal.
Much prefer his father Kingsley.
I know him well and am disappointed in the form his contrarianism takes here. Still, he is an essayist worth reading - my god can the man write!
Pseudo intellectual at best
@@Baloneycake4114 have you read his criticism?
I've always felt we needed Christopher Hitchens to help with this nonsense period of history. But having one of his close friends and colleagues will do nicely. I think I've found a new author.
He is my favorite living writer. Start with "Success," then read "Money," then "London Fields." When you're in the mood to have the top of your head blown off, read "The Information." You have so much fun ahead of you!!!
jwnyc3: He may be mine, too. I particularly liked 'Money'.
@@jwnyc3 I've been wanting to delve into Amis for a while now, thank you.
He is a good writer. After listening to him talk about politics I don't think he is a good candidate to replace Christopher Hitchens. His political opinions are pretty commonplace and not backed up by the same breadth of knowledge that Christopher seemed to draw from.
no we definitely DO NOT need that misogynist to help in this society. people like him would have shut down non straight white male voices. it's those men who kept us censored. nobody needs privileged men controlling the conversation.
RIP Martin amis. Good books, said a few daft things,but his heart was in the right place.
RIP Martin Amis. Only read three of your books - two novels and collection of novels - but I admire your dedication to your craft and I admire your candour and clarity in interviews.
As decent a tribute as I’ve read.
What a wasted opportunity, this interview could’ve been so much more.
Martin Amis is very well spoken and convincing to me.
What did he 'convince' you of in 4 minutes 44 seconds? The man said nothing; just slurs without evidence. Gibberish.
@@reginaldmolethrasher437 You could not be more wrong.
The interview says more about Amis's snobbery than anything else. "They need someone to look down on." Oh Martin, how you projected!
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Martin's opinion on Muslim countries is 100% accurate
I think he's only politically correct in the old fashioned sense, in the same he would call himself a leftist liberal. These terms have changed dramatically in recent years away from secularism and a fight for social justice and towards a bigoted, cultist group of regressive liberals who call any attack on Islam racism, any attack on the biological absurdity of transgenderism transphobic, and seemingly without a sense of humour of irony. It's always difficult to know how prevalent these groups are given the social media echo chambers we find ourselves trapped in, but I am sure that much of today's PC left would refuse to associate with Amis over his rightly critical view of Islam, to take the most clear example.
He knows the difference, just google his name and islam, I think he's quite aware of what he's saying.
@@BigBADSTUFF69 *knew, he died last week
@@jamesdettmann94 the tenses of the statement are really not the important thing here
Whatever his feelings about Trump, I'd have expected Amis to have had a more nuanced take on Trump's winning in 2016 rather than saying it was simply because of racism. It's even more disturbing to hear an author endorsing political correctness which is not just about fighting racism, sexism, etc (to give its defenders the benefit of the doubt)...but also about strictly controlling conversation and debate about these matters. Amis may have become a victim of polarized thinking himself.
Couldn't agree more. Amis has always been a pretentious twat.
@@reginaldmolethrasher437 I find him pretty sincere and unaffected.
Racism proved to be a big part of it.
@@koleyw932
True, but hardly a rebutting Trippetta's comment. A chief characteristic of a fool is, of course, sincerity.
Amis is another egomaniac like Trump
A writer is necessarily a thinker, and any quality thinker will reach the conclusion that “there is a great convulsion of stupidity happening in the world.”
Wise words esp.regarding political correctness
Not looking so well here, and some accusations he makes against Trump really missed the mark. I wonder how he’d feel now about the Woke and censorship… Fan of his novels but not so much his courting controversy with these wee guest appearances. Little Keith and Hitch were an interesting cultural phenomenon.
Martin is a brilliant man and right about Trump's veniality, but Martin misapprehended American politics at the time of the interview. I wonder what he thinks of PC now.
How about all these BLM demonstrators, you know, the millions in the streets in every US state? This interview is sounding more and more prescient, and at a time when "liberals" were still traumatized about Hillary loosing, and not sure what to make of any of it.
Hitch would cry.
Why?
Martin Amis sitting down with a bag of cut, rusting potatoes.
Christopher Hitchens is facepalming in his grave.
Truth hurts America doesn't it?
John Kasich. Tell us of your scapegoats...
Could one of them be John Kasich?
John... I love my white heterosexual Dad, though I think your right-wing talking points have been plagiarised. Do you think yourself a William F. Buckley presenting a "Bill"?
so you too have bought into the groupthink mass delusion of the obaba cult?
@@greateramerica4139 no
Martin looks and talks very closely to that of his father Kingsley Amis.
A legend in his own lunchtime …..
like you but unlike you he was famous
@@nzfreeski well he has passed onto that great lunchtime in the sky … so we don’t have to suffer his bile …. Great Outcome ..!!
@@296Echo Your attempts to be funny and edgy just come across as cringy and pathetic. Touch grass.
“Not very uplifting”? What does that mean? Is she looking for a puff piece?
RIP Martin Amis, literary genius
Based on his introduction, it would appear as though he's calling the kettle black
I am loving your books; I also love the fact that you are frank and honest in your opinions; not to mention your scintillating brilliance. I hope I get to meet you one day. I am sorry that I never met your sidekick (pardon me if I offend you) Christopher Hitchens; he too had a dazzling intelligence. I love his books also. I feel that I have been enriched just reading your books.
The interviewer is embarrassing.
Hipsters do suck.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is rabid in this one
Trump Derangement Syndrome is the blind adherence demonstrated by his followers against the mounting incontrovertible evidence of Trump’s malfeasance.
Martin "Islam must get it's house in order" Amis: "I'm very politically correct."
I think he means being politically correct in discourse about people of minority demographics yk? Islam is not a person, giving people license to be as insulting as they like.
Honest people / smart people know all religion is all bollocks. So political correctness has nothing to do with it.
Oh my goodness - I was an Amis fan. No longer. What a complete tool.
100% with you.
Absolutely
Astonishing. Man who feels a need to be better and more superior to everybody else thinks that everyone else also has a need to feel better and more superior to others. Open and shut case of projecting.
I’m guessing you’ve never read any of his books.
Did Hitch copy Amis or did Amis copy Hitch?
'Great convulsion of stupity' I am borrowing that phrase. In these times of Brexit and increasing right wing populism it is hard to argue against.
Because so far the left is doing a wonderful job....smh
@@RockerfellerRothchild1776 you will need to provide an example of a left leaning administration and then explain.
"Populism" just means what the people want. If you're upset that that's taking a right wing turn right now, that is the fault of the Left sadly. Not the people or the Right. They function as their correct function in this system.
The Left on the other hand has ran further and further from the enlightenment; diving into post modernist deconstruction and censorious levels of PC culture. If you put up no decent fight, you cant complain you lose.
Don't know much about Amis but this is embarrassing, politics aside the takes are teenage-girl Reddit-tier garbage
Well said, well said.
Good thing you pointed out he was an arse hole right at the start. I might have thought people would take him seriously. And the interviewer must have been in a drama class the day Justine subbed in for the real teacher. She sounded so concerned for Trump's reputation.
hahahah - he triggered just the right snowflakes
So an ARTIST or should I say CREATIVE PERSON (author) is for POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ! Interesting.
Rest in Peace
I like this guy for every reason! Seriously!
This guy is a great thinker?
No, he's not a great thinker, he's a fictional author. He's bluntly, yet terribly accurate. He just states the facts, uncensored, without embellishments. Some people turn away and wince, others admit concrete truths irrefutable.
@@sagat666 "fictional author" or author of fiction? Try using the English language again.
@@errgo2713 there are no rules, there is no algorithm, no Euclidean Geometry, escape your perfunctory shackles, are you a person who corrects others pronunciation of words? Tedium will devour your idle fingers* (please make it your life's goal, to read E. M. Cioran's - A SHORT HISTORY OF DECAY). (then come back to me with a correct response s'il vous plait)
@@errgo2713 yes, he's a fictional author, as, i would say, Plato in The Apology, is not*
@@errgo2713 semantics, lexic and syntax RIP*
RIP Martin Amis!
When you're so weak people's opinion hurt you.
Keep out of politics.
says who? your wannbe dictator and cult leader? the orange makeup-wearing Trans trump?
Wow!
Martin Amis is completely wrong on this and denigrates his legacy.
No he's not, he was spot on. Trump went on to deny a fair election and fuel riots by insurrectionists on the Capitol, not even the civil war achieved that.
A Fan of being PC, are you freaking Mad or what.
I don’t know what he thinks pc babies would say about his stance on Muslims...
American here. Just remember 8-9 million Obama voters went for TRUMP in 2016. Luckily we won them back in 2020.
This aged poorly
@@RockerfellerRothchild1776 how so?
@@alexanderangelo7284 Because they're back on Trump's side again...
I love amis. I have read all of his novels and ss collections. I thought the war against cliches was an amazing collection of essays. His memoir is a must-read. That said, when he puts his foot into the vortex of american politics he sounds like a utter fool -- or to phrase it slightly more amisian-- he sounds like a true denizen of the moronic inferno. Moreover he is an umbra of his former self. Amis needs to stop pulavering about subjects he barely knows and start fuccing young women, take TRT, and tap into the dionysian energies of his past.
He's this most overrated writer of his generation.
I'm disappointed he just virtue-signalled the whole segment.
What if he actually means it? That possibility isn't that remote.
Please stay in brooklyn
Amis used to be a critical thinker, now he is a corporate media shill.
A British champagne socialist
hahahah - the best critique is from people outside of the American asylum - its even funnier how riled up people like you get. He actually said, in agreement with Hitch, that Champagne was overrated.
TDS
Amis is bonkers.
He is "but mad north-northwest".
Truth hurts, wonder how many trumphtards will be triggered lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅
so by 'truth' you mean cnnpc, msnpc, nyt, and wapo of course. the obaba groupthink cult mentality is strong with this one.
Ahh the passive aggressive tone of condesenscion from Canadian academics. Taste the disdain.
He's English, not Canadian.
He is an academic and is disdainful. There is much that is disagreeable, but stick to using logical argument; not tone; or you are trolling.
*Trolls do not prove their claims. They cannot rise above the redline of baiting:* _1.They state the opposing case with little or no evidence,2.They criticize others' writing without addressing the argument,3.They engage in personal/ad hominem attacks without addressing the argument, or 4.They engage in bald bare name-calling._
SAM - believe in yourself hon....you measure up.....you can build that self-esteem.
Diane Owen
LOL!
SAM chandler MGTOW A Brit living in the US talking about Trump and you think he's a Canadian talking down to you. Diane is 100% correct about you but she forgot to say that you're a dum-dum. 😂
barf
This guy lives in his own head!
I think he’s way off.
What a weasel.
Hit dogs holler.
Amis and Hitchens voted for Biden.
Well you didn't expect them to vote for Drumpf, did you?
Not likely. Hitchens died in 2011 and Amis was a British citizen, genius.
@@shannongfm9945 I'm guessing I was trying to make a joke about Trump accusing Biden of election fraud and people who were dead being on ballots. I can't remember though.
Poor Amis. Too much booze and cigarettes, I am afraid. He looks absolutely ghastly.
The guy is like 70 😂
Pompous arrogance. Ignorance on a pedestal. He knows nothing of America or her people. Exactly why we broke the fetters of British imperialism. America refused such oafish arrogance in 1776. We refuse it still!
This old man is beyond parody.