@@penguinwolf3330It's almost an inversion of the classical ethos towards war....which is glory. Read von moltke the elder, he's very astute on this subject
I could literally listen to this man talk all day. And not just because he's one of the greatest writers of all time, but also just because his voice is so damn soothing. XD
This conversation reminds me of a story the singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt used to tell. He said that he had a bad flu and he took some narcotic cough syrup and went to sleep. In the middle of the night he had a very lucid dream of being onstage singing a song. In the dream he heard the words, the melody and all and he woke up and turned on the lamp and scratched the words down and went back to sleep. In the morning he woke up and still remembered the melody and went and played the complete song to Guy and Susanna Clark-his best friends. He didn’t have to change anything the song stayed just like he’d dreamt it. The song was “If I Needed You”, a beautiful, beautiful song. Another example is Tom Petty spoke of sitting in his little home recording studio one day messing around and he started playing some chords and hit record and in real time his song “Wildflowers” just came out of him onto the tape. He didn’t “write” or “craft” the song, it just came out of him without him thinking about what he was singing. He said for a week or two afterward he kept listening the song over and over certain that it couldn’t be any good or that there must be something wrong with it but it was in fact almost perfect just the way it came out. And that ended up being one of the best songs from a guy who wrote a pile of great songs. So what Cormac is talking about here is really true…our subconscious can do amazing things and it really is a complete mystery how it works. Where does it come from? What the hell even is it?
If you write a lot of songs you are going to have moments like that but in order to get there, to have those moments, you have to have dozens of other songs that you struggle with and some that you struggle with greatly to tune the instrument which is you so that can occasionally happen.
Actually, the unconscious mind is the bulwark for a healthy conscience mind. If you cannot disconnect from the ego & enter into this samadhi state,your mental & physical health suffers. Indeed, the VOID many people experience during their NDE,s is a conscience awareness of your own unconscious mind.See NDE-Jose Hernandez Atheist dies and is shocked by who he sees in heaven 3 million views. Just beyond the unconscious mind is your SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND/GOD. See Ramana Maharshi Be as You Are Chapter 12 Experience and Samadhi.
After reading a lot of books about the lives of authors and musicians, I think Cormac's fascination with the subconscious and his implicit trust in its guiding direction is spot on. Nearly every author of some renown has said they have absolutely no idea where their stories come from, absent any real life experience or research that might serve as the basis for their novel. But for completely fictional works it really does seem like these ideas just suddenly hit them and they're never at a complete loss for where to take them. From beginning to end their subconscious is producing the material and they feel like scribes writing down words and ideas that don't entirely feel like they're their own thoughts. It's as if they're a medium for something else. Musicians seem to be the same way. Keith Richards, in his autobiography "Life" said something about how when he's writing his guitar riffs, it's almost as if they're emerging from some subconscious ether, and he just has to be determined enough to keep chasing this thing that he knows already exists somewhere else, but he has to bring it into existence here. Michael Jackson had the same spooky experience writing his music. It just comes from someplace beyond their own ability to think or feel, as if they've been bestowed with a gift from the beyond.
Such a wise and worldly perspective, exactly what made his writing so unique. I love how whenever I read a McCarthy novel there’s a fusion of primal feeling with worldly understanding. Even the books I didn’t particularly care for were clearly written by a master storyteller
His thoughts on the subconscious remind me of Carl Jung's writings on the collective unconscious. I truly get the same type of dark isolated feeling when I read the works of both men.
Not sure why everyone feels so damn isolated reading Jung he’s talking about a collective universal experience available to everyone who wants to engage with his work.
@@strongbongus You're Kidding right?! Oprah can handle any interview effortlessly. Cormac is a difficult person to interview, if you know how sad his life was, you'd understand why. Anyway Please subscribe to my channel 💚
Why writing can be hard is you can't keep up with the subconscious flow. Channeling it's speed into word is difficult. But as justice Holmes called it like pissing. You open a vein and it flows.
I think Oprah’s sheer presence liberated McCarthy in this interview. Her beauty humility and gentle humour, encouraging him to expand. So for those critics saying ‘ I wish it was c X…’ interviewing, don’t underestimate her presence for drawing him out.
After 20 years of studying, it came to him in a dream. When asked about it, Kekule gave one of the best quotes ever...."Visions come to prepared spirits".
@@jon8004 indeed I'm not saying I like her as a person but she is a communicative genius; She literally became a billionaire due to her ability to speak, listen, and persuade people to open up about things they've never told anyone else. Furthermore she actually allows her guests to speak instead of talking over them or trying to make the conversation about her which sadly has become all too popular today.
Wow.. Unbelievable dream solving. With Russel Crowes character at that 😂. Real life is crazier then any fiction. Sad how many views Cormacs interviews have on TH-cam. He is a brilliant man. Brilliant and inspiring. 💡
I did a little writing and I always figured the subconscious did the writing cuz the next day when I reread the text I previously wrote, I was reading it for the first time and very curious to know what happened next...
Watching this made me realize that Cormac Mcarthy is as articulate as he is brilliant. And that I miss Oprah, people don't realize what it means to be a great interviewer, she is so disarming, that she allows Cormac to go on about these elegant stories. She is us, a collective vessel for the audience.
Us? Yea, she’s definitely my truck driving buddy, Lester, from West Virginia. The two of them have sooo much in common. Give me a break with this Oprah worship BS! It’s puke-worthy.
I’m reading The Road right now, it’s an incredible book I can’t put it down. His writing style is absolutely reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway’s minimalist, direct writing style with short simple sentences and to the point story telling. I’ll most likely be reading everything he wrote.
That's the later mccarthy. The earlier mccarthy is reminiscent of Faulkner and Joyce, especially suttree which has unbelievable use of prose and vocabulary. Read all his books. He's probably the greatest writer to ever write.
@@UncleTravelingMatt2 Tackle that one like an endeavor. Take notes, underline things, and look words up as you encounter them. It's a very difficult book to read, and that's not touching the brutal, horrific violence. It's about as difficult as something like Moby Dick or Dante's Inferno or the Bible.
Why drag Cavett into this? Don't let your dislikes govern what the rest of us are actually enjoying. That's so selfish and typical of you...but not unexpected!
@@BL-mf3jp Uggggh. No. Charlie is a bland human being who asked bland questions. And oh yeah, he was pals with Jeffrey Epstein who scouted interns for him.....
@@Neat0_o you'd be whining if it was somebody talking to McCarthy as much as him and claim they weren't letting him speak. you elitists can't let anyone win
Oprah isn't as knowledgeable on writing, the subconscious, or the history of language as Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize winning author who spends his free time among scientists and others at an interdisciplinary scientific research organization (Santa Fe Institute, mentioned by McCarthy in this interview)? Well, of course. There's nothing embarrassing about that. Her money and clout allowed this interview to happen. It is silly to criticize her. McCarthy wasn't remotely condescending.
These topics don't automatically come to you because you have scientists as friends or have more direct access to a research organization. It is neither necessary nor really beneficial in a lot of cases. They are also not solved or solvable and readily available. What matters here is the choice to take the time to reflect and engage with such topics in the first place. Yes, today it is no miracle that someone like Oprah is unable to participate in this dialogue and nobody asks of her to be McCarthy's equal in that moment, ... regardless - her being absolutely unable to participate at all (apart from seemingly poorly acted utterances of "oh" and "whoah") does say something about the shallowness of her and the culture that made her big.
Amazing how many of these ideas are in The Passenger/Stella Maris. Almost verbatim. Goes to show how long he’s been asking these questions, only to find more questions. Rest in peace, Cormac.
Subconscious is a "committee" and they have "meetings"? Is it just me, or was Pixar inspired to make "Inside Out" after watching this interview? Cormac McCarthy has something else to add to his resume.
Some people's comments on here are hilarious for the reasons that they are exaggerated. The man is merely making theoretical points about the subconscious. Some of which are subjective even. Lol
A man can arrive at truthful conclusions subjectively just like it can arrive at wrongful conclusions objectively. Because when it comes ti subconscious understanding and personal development man can subjectively understand what is truly right or wrong, there is no way of piggybacking on someone else's subjective understanding.
I would die if I could just have one hour with this man. I feel like we would be great friends. I need to talk about the conscious and subconscious literature its meanings its teachings and life.
Really. And that's after she's already been in the presence of hour after hour of the brilliance of her interview subjects. Osmosis is most certainly not how people learn to think.
How the hell do you read "a destroyed mind" out of someone saying 'yes'! Unless you're looking for the worst in people who, for some reason, you deem inferior.
I don’t see how the unconscious could be older than language, since language is, to my mind, essentially what defines us as Subjects. But of course, the two are _intimately_ related (parapraxis/slips, jokes, stutters, the signifying chain, etc).
Things that seem difficult for mundane people just seem so easy for those with true capability. He talks about writing as if it were making a sandwich. Which, to him, it probably was.
I can't believe people are shitting on Oprah for this in the commets. She is doing a perfectly fine job, she's giving him room to answer the question and develop his thoughts. This isn't supposed to be a discussion or debate, she's hear to ask him questions and let him answer.
They're snobs who only think academic white men are worthy of respect. They're threatened by her. She invalidates their illusory superiority which they project through the realm of literary culture, academia and so called western high culture. Oprah is a threat to all that.
So....could my subconscious mind solve all my "problems"? I have pleaded with myself to fix these problems. I think my problem is that It is my conscious mind that is pleading with my conscious mind to "fix" my problems that my subconscious maybe doesn't even accept as problems? How do I communicate with my subconscious mind consciously?
The way he talks about the subconscious is like that SpongeBob episode where he dumps everything for fine dining. 😂 The office of cubicle worker spongebobs frantically searching through files for his name. 😂
Never thought a day would come when I would be defending Oprah, but I think most people in the comments are being too harsh. Not the smartest person in the room by any stretch of the imagination, but not as dumb as people seem to think she is. Her demeanour and comments show she is a thoughtful listener at least (as well as a fairly diligent reader of McCarthy), well ahead of most interviewers these days. Even the fact that she actually read his books before interviewing him puts her ahead of most.
It's a true story. Donald Newman himself relates the story in the documentary A Brilliant Madness, the transcript of which you can find here: cosmolearning.org/documentaries/a-brilliant-madness-john-nash-620/1/
I've learned so much from this comment section. Comments sections give a glimpse of the collective unconscious. Here, we see how threatened old white elitist academic men are by someone like Oprah. This is very much in the collective unconscious, but people will rarely voice it in the open.
you’re inferring the meaning you want from these comments. The remarks would be the same if McCarthy was interviewed by a white, male TV personality that typically panders to low-brow audiences, like Jerry Springer. And who are these “old white elitists” in academia? It’s abundantly clear that academia is rife all the way to the top with progressives and their anti-White ideology.
Oprah was like: "Hell, we usually don't discuss these things with Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie." Way above her level. Embarrassing to watch.
i don't know what it is like for other ppl but whatever your eyes register ears note down nose catches is stored and given back to you when you want it depending if you know how to retrive the files and if your intelligences level is on par with your subconscious what is given back to you will be of higher level then what you put in minus all the bugs . I understand why he would rather hang out with engineers and scientists for the simple reson their inputs are of much higher quality then the rest of humanity. and that is in no way a attempt to diss the contributions of others because no one can fuction on high level all the time without cracking couple of fart jokes to give space for everything to be filed and processed in it's rightful place balance is the key to everything .
This is how your mind ends up if you live a free life of discovery. I hope someone recorded and stored every word that old man said. Continuing his research matters. The truth about is GOD real in a yes or no answer for all and for all time with undeniable evidence. He enjoyed making guys like me frustrated, I enjoy knowing he knows I was always right now. GOD is real. Faith requires zero evidence. Rest in Peace old man. The worlds gonna miss you and your stories .
@@elel2608 Americans can't speak French, it's cute when they try. Thank God they don't attempt to speak English. (I probably mixed up this quotation but it's something to that effect).
RIP, Cormac. Thanks for doing your thing so well, for so long.
He's your typical, miserable Irish-brained moron. Nothing special about him tbh
@@Loquacious_Jackson wow!
“War was always here, waiting for us.”
Easily the most misunderstood quote/ monologue from that work
@@morganclonce What is it that people misunderstand from it?
the ancient greeks said, only the dead seen the end of war.
@@penguinwolf3330It's almost an inversion of the classical ethos towards war....which is glory. Read von moltke the elder, he's very astute on this subject
Cormac McCarthy is just one of those people who is intimidatingly smart.
he comes off as incredibly humble and warm though, so i think that intimidation would be more out of respect.
I felt that immediately.
He's the kind-of man who makes you feel smarter by talking with him, while simultaneously realizing how wide the gulf actually is between you and him.
I could literally listen to this man talk all day. And not just because he's one of the greatest writers of all time, but also just because his voice is so damn soothing. XD
And the stuff he says is really fucking interesting.
Total Bob Ross vibe. Maybe the accent would locate some common regional origin.
If you listened to him talk all day, you’d probably get less than 250 words total, ie one page of prose. If I were you I’d rather just read him.
Reading Cormac McCarthy is a cathartic experience. An amazing cathartic experience.
its also quite traumatic at times haha
mccatharty
Cormac McCarthy is a brilliant writer! The best of the best.
This conversation reminds me of a story the singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt used to tell. He said that he had a bad flu and he took some narcotic cough syrup and went to sleep. In the middle of the night he had a very lucid dream of being onstage singing a song. In the dream he heard the words, the melody and all and he woke up and turned on the lamp and scratched the words down and went back to sleep. In the morning he woke up and still remembered the melody and went and played the complete song to Guy and Susanna Clark-his best friends. He didn’t have to change anything the song stayed just like he’d dreamt it. The song was “If I Needed You”, a beautiful, beautiful song. Another example is Tom Petty spoke of sitting in his little home recording studio one day messing around and he started playing some chords and hit record and in real time his song “Wildflowers” just came out of him onto the tape. He didn’t “write” or “craft” the song, it just came out of him without him thinking about what he was singing. He said for a week or two afterward he kept listening the song over and over certain that it couldn’t be any good or that there must be something wrong with it but it was in fact almost perfect just the way it came out. And that ended up being one of the best songs from a guy who wrote a pile of great songs. So what Cormac is talking about here is really true…our subconscious can do amazing things and it really is a complete mystery how it works. Where does it come from? What the hell even is it?
Neil young says the same thing.
If you write a lot of songs you are going to have moments like that but in order to get there, to have those moments, you have to have dozens of other songs that you struggle with and some that you struggle with greatly to tune the instrument which is you so that can occasionally happen.
Actually, the unconscious mind is the bulwark for a healthy conscience mind.
If you cannot disconnect from the ego & enter into this samadhi state,your mental & physical health suffers.
Indeed, the VOID many people experience during their NDE,s is a conscience awareness of your own unconscious mind.See NDE-Jose Hernandez Atheist dies and is shocked by who he sees in heaven 3 million views.
Just beyond the unconscious mind is your SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND/GOD.
See Ramana Maharshi Be as You Are Chapter 12 Experience and Samadhi.
We lost a legend of literature. Rest In Pages
After reading a lot of books about the lives of authors and musicians, I think Cormac's fascination with the subconscious and his implicit trust in its guiding direction is spot on. Nearly every author of some renown has said they have absolutely no idea where their stories come from, absent any real life experience or research that might serve as the basis for their novel. But for completely fictional works it really does seem like these ideas just suddenly hit them and they're never at a complete loss for where to take them. From beginning to end their subconscious is producing the material and they feel like scribes writing down words and ideas that don't entirely feel like they're their own thoughts. It's as if they're a medium for something else. Musicians seem to be the same way. Keith Richards, in his autobiography "Life" said something about how when he's writing his guitar riffs, it's almost as if they're emerging from some subconscious ether, and he just has to be determined enough to keep chasing this thing that he knows already exists somewhere else, but he has to bring it into existence here. Michael Jackson had the same spooky experience writing his music. It just comes from someplace beyond their own ability to think or feel, as if they've been bestowed with a gift from the beyond.
Such a wise and worldly perspective, exactly what made his writing so unique. I love how whenever I read a McCarthy novel there’s a fusion of primal feeling with worldly understanding. Even the books I didn’t particularly care for were clearly written by a master storyteller
I'd love Cormac McCarthy to narrate audiobooks of his works, but Richard Poe is a damn good second choice!
"its the brain thing" hahaha
lol!
I swear the second she said that I decided to scroll through the comments only to find yours highest ranked lol.
@@sirotahaggen she is so stupid, why would he talk to her......
I mean...just kill me. But don't make me listen to her speak again...anything, the rack, but not that.
But, it is the brain, isn't it? Dreaming, thinking, perceiving, imagining... isn't it the brain?
His thoughts on the subconscious remind me of Carl Jung's writings on the collective unconscious. I truly get the same type of dark isolated feeling when I read the works of both men.
Jung's writings on interior evil were a big influence on Outer Dark actually
That’s odd , Jung makes me feel the exact opposite
Oddly I was drawn back to read No country and then blood meridian after being introduced to Jung.
Always with Jung. It's boring. Most only repeat what is spoon-fed. Not unlike Oprah in this interview. Boring, Sidney.
Not sure why everyone feels so damn isolated reading Jung he’s talking about a collective universal experience available to everyone who wants to engage with his work.
Great exposure for him, but Oprah is one of the last people I'd pick to interview this man.
Why?
Pfano Mush were you watching? she's way out of her depth.
@@strongbongus You're Kidding right?! Oprah can handle any interview effortlessly. Cormac is a difficult person to interview, if you know how sad his life was, you'd understand why.
Anyway Please subscribe to my channel 💚
@@pfanomush930 explain to me how his life was sad at one point? I truly don’t know.
noone but oprah could pull him out to talk.OPRAH is an icon ..whether u agree or not
I love that he made Nash the co-author
Rest In Peace.
RIP to the legend
One thing I've learned is you need to step out of the way. The creativity is living within you.
Why writing can be hard is you can't keep up with the subconscious flow. Channeling it's speed into word is difficult. But as justice Holmes called it like pissing. You open a vein and it flows.
I think Oprah’s sheer presence liberated McCarthy in this interview. Her beauty humility and gentle humour, encouraging him to expand. So for those critics saying ‘ I wish it was c
X…’ interviewing, don’t underestimate her presence for drawing him out.
Does your mom know you're gay?
I read The Road which I enjoyed. I haven't read any of his other books, but he has his own unique style of writing.
Do yourself a favor and read No Country For Old Men and Blood Meridian. They are both amazing pieces of work.
@@ThePaintballerforlif ok, I will.
During the interview Cormac refers to [August] Kekule's Dream. Fascinating!
After 20 years of studying, it came to him in a dream. When asked about it, Kekule gave one of the best quotes ever...."Visions come to prepared spirits".
Oprah has made a career out of sounding like the smartest person in the room. She's not used to talking to a guy like this.
I can't stand Oprah. Never have, She thinks she is so smart but it's nonsense.
@@jon8004 indeed I'm not saying I like her as a person but she is a communicative genius; She literally became a billionaire due to her ability to speak, listen, and persuade people to open up about things they've never told anyone else.
Furthermore she actually allows her guests to speak instead of talking over them or trying to make the conversation about her which sadly has become all too popular today.
You can tell she's in awe of the man lol
Totally agree
@@johnkuipers7829 lol you tell that to a billionaire ???SHE IS SMART!! putting a billion dollars in the bank proves you are smart
Excellent author!!
1:42 Oprah with the most delayed fake understanding ever.
Omg, give it a break!
@@isaaca6445 It's funny dou, her reaction seems forced af.
Wow.. Unbelievable dream solving. With Russel Crowes character at that 😂. Real life is crazier then any fiction. Sad how many views Cormacs interviews have on TH-cam. He is a brilliant man. Brilliant and inspiring. 💡
Sad that you had to mention Crowe when it’s Nash that’s the inspiration…
“It’s that brain thing again” -- 🧐
She S-M-R-T.
I did a little writing and I always figured the subconscious did the writing cuz the next day when I reread the text I previously wrote, I was reading it for the first time and very curious to know what happened next...
Watching this made me realize that Cormac Mcarthy is as articulate as he is brilliant. And that I miss Oprah, people don't realize what it means to be a great interviewer, she is so disarming, that she allows Cormac to go on about these elegant stories. She is us, a collective vessel for the audience.
She’s an idiot.
Us? Yea, she’s definitely my truck driving buddy, Lester, from West Virginia. The two of them have sooo much in common. Give me a break with this Oprah worship BS! It’s puke-worthy.
@@stevejanowiak1982 you missed her point.
@@stevejanowiak1982 he praised her for being a good interviewer, not for being your truck driving buddy. put the drink down and clear your mind
@@stevejanowiak1982you forgot to add the confederate flag to the back of the truck.
I’m reading The Road right now, it’s an incredible book I can’t put it down. His writing style is absolutely reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway’s minimalist, direct writing style with short simple sentences and to the point story telling. I’ll most likely be reading everything he wrote.
That's the later mccarthy. The earlier mccarthy is reminiscent of Faulkner and Joyce, especially suttree which has unbelievable use of prose and vocabulary. Read all his books. He's probably the greatest writer to ever write.
@@thomaspynchon8400 I definitely plan to. Blood Meridian is my next one.
@@UncleTravelingMatt2 good luck
@@UncleTravelingMatt2 Tackle that one like an endeavor. Take notes, underline things, and look words up as you encounter them. It's a very difficult book to read, and that's not touching the brutal, horrific violence. It's about as difficult as something like Moby Dick or Dante's Inferno or the Bible.
@@scraps992 I read Moby Dick. It’s a very tough read.
Este homem, é um gênio...
Fico feliz que tenha outro brasileiro aqui heheheh
I SO wish Dick Cavett had interviewed him instead..
Damn that would have been an actual intellectual interview between both party’s and not just McCarthy.
Why drag Cavett into this? Don't let your dislikes govern what the rest of us are actually enjoying. That's so selfish and typical of you...but not unexpected!
@@garyspence2128 How would someone know what was typical of someone else unless they knew them? I bet this gary person is a riot at parties..
@@BL-mf3jp Uggggh. No. Charlie is a bland human being who asked bland questions. And oh yeah, he was pals with Jeffrey Epstein who scouted interns for him.....
@@Neat0_o you'd be whining if it was somebody talking to McCarthy as much as him and claim they weren't letting him speak. you elitists can't let anyone win
Regardless of your thoughts on Oprah it's nice to put a face to the genius works he's accomplished over a lifetime.
Nice to see Oprahs big face too every so often
We miss you so much, Mr McCarthy
RIP Sir..
big cormac
A true voice of the Pacific Northwest.
Oprah isn't as knowledgeable on writing, the subconscious, or the history of language as Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize winning author who spends his free time among scientists and others at an interdisciplinary scientific research organization (Santa Fe Institute, mentioned by McCarthy in this interview)?
Well, of course. There's nothing embarrassing about that. Her money and clout allowed this interview to happen. It is silly to criticize her. McCarthy wasn't remotely condescending.
Nor to me, did he seem that interested in speaking with Winfrey. Not bothered mind you, just less than interested.
“McCarthy wasn’t remotely condescending.”
Well - that makes one of you.
@@j.patrickboyce5513 how was he ?
These topics don't automatically come to you because you have scientists as friends or have more direct access to a research organization. It is neither necessary nor really beneficial in a lot of cases. They are also not solved or solvable and readily available. What matters here is the choice to take the time to reflect and engage with such topics in the first place.
Yes, today it is no miracle that someone like Oprah is unable to participate in this dialogue and nobody asks of her to be McCarthy's equal in that moment, ... regardless - her being absolutely unable to participate at all (apart from seemingly poorly acted utterances of "oh" and "whoah") does say something about the shallowness of her and the culture that made her big.
Bugger! I wanted to hear more of this interview.
My hero
You have excellent taste, Mr. Moleman
Mr.Cormac, it's nice to having you on my way...
Nash as co-author: that’s gratitude.
Amazing how many of these ideas are in The Passenger/Stella Maris. Almost verbatim. Goes to show how long he’s been asking these questions, only to find more questions. Rest in peace, Cormac.
Subconscious is a "committee" and they have "meetings"? Is it just me, or was Pixar inspired to make "Inside Out" after watching this interview? Cormac McCarthy has something else to add to his resume.
That concept's been around longer than McCarthy.
Check out "Being John Malkovich."
What an interesting man he was. RIP Cormac.
Some people's comments on here are hilarious for the reasons that they are exaggerated. The man is merely making theoretical points about the subconscious. Some of which are subjective even. Lol
A man can arrive at truthful conclusions subjectively just like it can arrive at wrongful conclusions objectively. Because when it comes ti subconscious understanding and personal development man can subjectively understand what is truly right or wrong, there is no way of piggybacking on someone else's subjective understanding.
All of which are subjective.
"Whoa"- Oprah's response to Cormac McCarthy.
So what?
I would die if I could just have one hour with this man. I feel like we would be great friends. I need to talk about the conscious and subconscious literature its meanings its teachings and life.
"its that brain thing again" - god what an intellect she is
Really. And that's after she's already been in the presence of hour after hour of the brilliance of her interview subjects. Osmosis is most certainly not how people learn to think.
Came here to say that and you beat me to it. Damn, you must have that brain thing going.
@@GGTutor1 😂
you people are probably just as smart as her. stop being pseuds and get a grip
Oprah's job is to make the information accessible to her audience. That's what she is doing with her comments.
1:42 ... And that's how a destroyed mind sounds.
Man this cracked me up so much.
How the hell do you read "a destroyed mind" out of someone saying 'yes'! Unless you're looking for the worst in people who, for some reason, you deem inferior.
Mind blown = destroyed mind. Obviously
RIP giant.
I wonder if John Nash actually dreamed about talking to the mathematician as well :)
Bro! He’s smart AF
The way he described the subconscious is my exact thought process when I’ve tripped on mushrooms lol
I don’t see how the unconscious could be older than language, since language is, to my mind, essentially what defines us as Subjects. But of course, the two are _intimately_ related (parapraxis/slips, jokes, stutters, the signifying chain, etc).
Things that seem difficult for mundane people just seem so easy for those with true capability. He talks about writing as if it were making a sandwich. Which, to him, it probably was.
Nice! He’s basically espousing Marvin Minsky’s society of mind theory
Can we just edit Oprah out of this?
go hide somewhere duh
@@jon8004 indeed ...
I can't believe people are shitting on Oprah for this in the commets. She is doing a perfectly fine job, she's giving him room to answer the question and develop his thoughts. This isn't supposed to be a discussion or debate, she's hear to ask him questions and let him answer.
She's very respectful of him and rarely interrupts him, which is what an interviewer is supposed to do. Dick Cavett was like that too.
They're snobs who only think academic white men are worthy of respect. They're threatened by her. She invalidates their illusory superiority which they project through the realm of literary culture, academia and so called western high culture. Oprah is a threat to all that.
The subconscious endures. As well ask men what they think of stone.
RIP
He speaks like Daniel Day Lewis's Lincoln.
brilliant..
So....could my subconscious mind solve all my "problems"? I have pleaded with myself to fix these problems. I think my problem is that It is my conscious mind that is pleading with my conscious mind to "fix" my problems that my subconscious maybe doesn't even accept as problems? How do I communicate with my subconscious mind consciously?
thats intense, man
The way he talks about the subconscious is like that SpongeBob episode where he dumps everything for fine dining. 😂
The office of cubicle worker spongebobs frantically searching through files for his name. 😂
Never thought a day would come when I would be defending Oprah, but I think most people in the comments are being too harsh. Not the smartest person in the room by any stretch of the imagination, but not as dumb as people seem to think she is. Her demeanour and comments show she is a thoughtful listener at least (as well as a fairly diligent reader of McCarthy), well ahead of most interviewers these days. Even the fact that she actually read his books before interviewing him puts her ahead of most.
I loved it when he said "It's McCarthying time!" and started McCarthying all over those guys
I’ve read The Crossing, All the Pretty Horses & No Country For Old Men. Any recommendations on the next book of his to crack?
Blood Meridian
@@nicoles7800 thanks! Started The Road but Blood Meridian will be the next.
@@gwendolynsinclair Awesome 👏, you will like both.
The road.....😭
Highly recommend Blood Meridian, The Road, Child Of God is absolutely fantastic as well
@@gotnuggets99 thanks for your recommendations.
"The same thing that tells you what to write, tells you when to stop writing it." Fuck me.
1:42 Oprah's mind explodes
+W Miles Co author Nash
An intellectual mismatch in this one..
Not at all! Oprah is probably brighter than me and I fully understood what he was saying. I wonder what prejudices are driving your comments.
Stephen King wrote in his book On Writing that he sometimes was not able to understand "whacks of" McCarthy's writing.
Ikr,I saw this in his interview for rolling stones. I think it was blood meridian he was talking about.
@@girishgowda7661 "Blood Meridian" us definitely a challenging read.
King is average intelligence at best.
Nash as co author, haha, I almost believed it until that point. good one
It's a true story. Donald Newman himself relates the story in the documentary A Brilliant Madness, the transcript of which you can find here: cosmolearning.org/documentaries/a-brilliant-madness-john-nash-620/1/
Subconscious is older than his muse too…
I was looking for this kind of comment! :D
The subconscious like from Inside Out!
yes he just came up with the plot to a disney movie i wonder if he realized
That was more about subconscious emotions than what he is talking about here, but yeah some things were really well represented in Inside Out
I've learned so much from this comment section. Comments sections give a glimpse of the collective unconscious. Here, we see how threatened old white elitist academic men are by someone like Oprah. This is very much in the collective unconscious, but people will rarely voice it in the open.
you’re inferring the meaning you want from these comments. The remarks would be the same if McCarthy was interviewed by a white, male TV personality that typically panders to low-brow audiences, like Jerry Springer. And who are these “old white elitists” in academia? It’s abundantly clear that academia is rife all the way to the top with progressives and their anti-White ideology.
1:42 Oprah bamboozled 😂
Cormac would love the Lars von Trier Melancholia Press video!!!
Oh, to talk with this man…
"Can I buy some pot from you?"
Exactly. There is nothing complicated about what he says. But it does not relate to anything sensible that can be evaluated.
Aristotelian detected lol
Does anyone know the MIT mathematician McCarthy is referring to?
Did you find out who he is, please?
When she shuts up , then we learn.
2:05 when he looks at us and said 😱
4:50 Oprah pretending to act amazed
How is Oprah the person interviewing this guy?
She made him with that interview. He was a nobody before she picked his book for her book club
Oprah was like: "Hell, we usually don't discuss these things with Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie."
Way above her level. Embarrassing to watch.
The USA belive that oprah is intelligent?? 😅 oh america ....
What math paper was that? Who was the author besides Nash?
such a waste of an exclusive opportunity to speak with such an amazing dude
She does just fine.
Is this the full version?
i don't know what it is like for other ppl but whatever your eyes register ears note down nose catches is stored and given back to you when you want it depending if you know how to retrive the files and if your intelligences level is on par with your subconscious what is given back to you will be of higher level then what you put in minus all the bugs . I understand why he would rather hang out with engineers and scientists for the simple reson their inputs are of much higher quality then the rest of humanity. and that is in no way a attempt to diss the contributions of others because no one can fuction on high level all the time without cracking couple of fart jokes to give space for everything to be filed and processed in it's rightful place balance is the key to everything .
you really took mccarthy's approach to punctuation and ran with it lol
1:18 this comment & it's response shows she was kinda out of her league here
I’m listening
This is how your mind ends up if you live a free life of discovery. I hope someone recorded and stored every word that old man said.
Continuing his research matters. The truth about is GOD real in a yes or no answer for all and for all time with undeniable evidence. He enjoyed making guys like me frustrated, I enjoy knowing he knows I was always right now. GOD is real. Faith requires zero evidence. Rest in Peace old man. The worlds gonna miss you and your stories .
Who's the mathematician he was talking about?
Kekule. He discovered the structure of the benzene molecule in a dream.
What did Henry Miller say in French? Jakkuu, I’m listening??
Can anyone translate?
J’ecoute.
J’accuse! (Dreyfus Miller)
first semester first year french
@@elel2608 Americans can't speak French, it's cute when they try. Thank God they don't attempt to speak English. (I probably mixed up this quotation but it's something to that effect).
Oprah: “…Yeah…”
genius genius genius
Think he plays Pokémon Go?
Yes. He's deceased but YES>