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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- YOU KNOW, TOM,
YOU TOLD ME A LOT
OF THE OLD-TIME STORIES...
ABOUT HOW YOU USED TO...
STICK YOUR ARM IN BETWEEN
THE BARS OF THE CELL.
THE GUARD WOULD COME BY,
AND HE'D FIRE YOU UP
A SHOT OF MORPHINE.
WELL, THEY NEVER DID THAT
FOR ME.
WELL, THEY DON'T DO THAT
FOR ANYONE ANYMORE.
NARCOTICS HAVE BEEN...
SYSTEMATICALLY SCAPEGOATED...
AND DEMONIZED.
THE IDEA THAT ANYONE CAN
USE DRUGS AND ESCAPE
A HORRIBLE FATE...
IS ANATHEMA
TO THESE IDIOTS.
I PREDICT,
IN THE NEAR FUTURE,
RIGHT-WINGERS WILL USE
DRUG HYSTERIA...
AS A PRETEXT...
TO SET UP AN INTERNATIONAL
POLICE APPARATUS.
BUT I'M AN OLD MAN,
AND I MAY NOT LIVE...
TO SEE A FINAL SOLUTION
OF THE DRUG PROBLEM.
i get chills watching this, burroughs is essentially playing himself..
tom meakins Yes, but again, he was always doing that off-camera as well...=D
That's the whole idea, Burroughs was always playing himself in any role / cameo.
He is. He was an advocate for heroin. He was a real miserable dude. Just hearing him talk is all drug misserableness. He inspired many young kids to do opiates because he was a successful writer and they thought they could also be successful which 99.9% of the time does not happen.
Who isn't? X
@@petephelan969 you seem miserable too.
I saw this movie when released. These words popped into my head just now and I shot out of bed to try and find this speech by Burroughs. Yet another example of Burroughs peering into the future and reporting back to us….about how Control creates WE the enslaved. William did not live to see the whole stinking shit house go up in flames….but, in a way, maybe he did see it go. And I'm sure he delighted in that to no end! - Thank You yet again! William Seward Burroughs-1914 - 1997
A Jim Morrison quote I'm going to get my kicks before the whole shithouse Goes Up in Flames
@Saucy Boy you are not quite tuned in to the subtleties and nuances friend. Good luck on your jiurney
@@superfuzzymomma Rogered. {free us doesn’t to ghosts disrupt time by virus control sequence want breaking communication}
It's Thanksgiving and I'm a Latin American. So, thanks for the DEA. And thank you Tom, you nailed it.
Perhaps Fetnyal is their final solution.
What’s “Fetnyal”?
Holy shit... He was right.
Lucas Davis Bill usually was 99% of the time. Truly a genius, and an underrated writer as well.
Look around, kids! This the post Obama era!🤗💕
SMGDMFH!
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@@RichyRich4he was 100% right though. If anything, he was too optimistic about how the Reagan Era was going to go
Yeah but this was filmed in the late 80s so this "police apparatus" had been around for like 40 years at this point dingus
As always pure genius. A great hero of mine. He helped me around and out of drugs (philosophically) Also taught me I didn't have to be a walking stereotype to be Queer. The priest they called him indeed. Christopher John Higo xx
soulbass81 I agree. I love William Burroughs. He was a huge influence on my life, and most definitely a genius. Highly underrated individual and author in my opinion, not to mention painter and all the spoken word poetry he did with various musicians and artists. Coil is one of my favorite bands and they were in the process of doing an entire album together called - Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Windows, which was a name Bill came up with. Sadly, he died before they got to finish it but I have heard a few of the rough sketches and outtakes from the sessions..
around 2002 one of their regular songs in their life lineup was called. I am William Burroughs Hallucinating in Space :p
Good stuff, maybe it will be released in part someday.
Nice that this flick captured Burroughs for posterity. Matt Dillon, by the way, did a very good narration of “On the Road” a few years back.
In another life, perhaps...
in another life.
Old Bull was true true true.
'old bull lee had 50 different personalities, one them was an old black man standing in line at the postoffice asking people what time it was' - jack kerouac
Billy B! Just as accurate then in 1989-1990 as he was in 1959-1960 or any other decade for that matter..
That was the 1930's, Burrows was interpreting History.
I wish I had a chance to meet Bill when he was alive. Would have been a good conversation.
Mr. Burroughs used to say that he was " just a tech sergeant in the Shakespeare army." He certainly knew from his own experience about the horrors of heroin addiction. Before he flew to England from Tangiers he was using a German made, codeine based narcotic by the name of Eukodol which had been discontinued by the manufacturer due to the side effect of euphoria. However, they had a supply that Burroughs proceeded to exhaust. He said in his biography that he was taking a shot every ten minutes and was spending day after day just sitting and staring at his big toe. It was only after the Eukodol ran out that he came to the decision to take the cure in England with Dr. Yerbury Dent. Burroughs completed the cure and remained off drugs for many years. He did become addicted again in 1980 while living in New York. He got on the Methadone maintenance program, moved to Kansas, and lived there until his death from a heart attack in 1997.
Eukodal is not a cocaine based-drug. It was oxycodone.
@Saucy Boy Thank you very much have a nice day
That is what was written down.
He didn't write cocaine in his comment he wrote codeine
Fantastic
It’s funny he said “right-wingers” because Burroughs himself was fairly conservative politically, despite embodying the left wing counter culture of his day.
NATO Interpol it’s all like he predicted
Burroughs was never just a writer… He is a prophet
Crap! He was right!
Yeah except he said this in 1989 and the international police apparatus was set up in the late 60s
@@mattcunningham9235 the movie was set in '71. And one can debate just when and how it became "international". And, it wasn't just right-wingers. It was mainstream, by "centrists".
Great cameo. More real than real
Wow. What an Amesome scene. Burroughs maaan :D
This is how I see myself in fifty years.
But....that started before this was filmed, didn't it? Am I misremembering?
This is set in like 71 but filmed in 89
2024 has checked in.
great movie on the life of drug addicts...william is a master
That was already happening before this was made
Decades before. Under presidents of both parties.
Anthony Bourdain loved this movie, it was like 'his life' indeed, but in the end, oops (the end) 😮😮😮😮
End the war on drugs!
They did, drugs won
Too much profit.
Was it a prediction or had it already happened by then?
Roots of dale gribble
good movie.. good scene.. WSB
He predicted what was already done when this movie was made? I don't get it...
😕
Yes Burroughs predicted the War on Drugs in real life a decade prior to 1970, which is the year, roughly, that this film represents. Burroughs used Yage in 1953, was likely the first White Ayahuasca Tourist ever. He said Yage cured him of his addictions to Opiates, Cocaine and Vice in general. It opened the veil of knowledge to him and he witnessed truths. Some present day, some past and some yet to happen.
James Fogle(who wrote and lived Drugstore Cowboy) robbed Pharmacy’s professionally here in Oregon & the Pacific NW. He is a Hero of mine, as is Burroughs.The War on drugs officially started in 1970 by Nixon..so in context to the year this story is set in he was absolutely predicting the war on drugs.
@@BushyHairedStranger great history, thanks. Burroughs also tried injecting DMT, before it had even been officially chemically named, which he got from a clandestine chemist. In the 90s, and probably still today, critics said his "hallucinatory" imagery was from opiate withdrawals, but I now recognize it's very DMT-like.
Children in Kindergarden creating Hell- blaming others for the heat...
William S. Burroughs. America's Churchill if I ever saw one. All american, all the time, with more sense than youth today.
Its legal for rich people make it legal
Oh the irony. Great casting.
The onetime most famous junky, author, and "Beat Generation" philosopher portraying the role of a philosophical junky ex-Priest.
Yeppers
Does anyone know the story that Matt Dillon is talking about?
Yes.
Yes but a bit to romantic, by that time around the 1920ties/30ties some oldtime junkies went so sick cut off from there Heroin
and vomit/shiting while put in jail so they get just 1 shot of morphine
he was spot on...with one major flaw....fearing the right ..he forgot to notice that semi truck bearing down from the left...
The left wasn't the source of the War on Drugs. That was the Nixon and Reagan Administrations that pushed the BNDD into the DEA /CIA/Military/Police State that we all love today.
are we sure he's dead and not now doing the voice for Stephen Hawkins?
not anymore
Errrrrr got some bad news for you buddy
Burroughs taking method acting a little too literally
................ Trump?
Boy did he wind up getting it wrong :/ The funny thing is that this was a retroactive historic revisionist commentary: the movie takes place in the late 60s / early 70s, but was filmed in the late 80s in the midst of the Reagan “Just Say No” era. In order to be faux-prescient and smugly hip, they shoehorned this ham-handed then and now lecture in. But today, drug use is more normalized and accepted (possibly due to a defeatist attitude, admittedly) than it has ever been in American history. Fentanyl addicts zombie-stooped/slumped on public sidewalks, teens and pre-teens vaping thc, oxy addiction just written off as a “what, me worry?” by politicians. Some slopes really ARE slippery, and some things really ARE gateways to others. But hey, “If It Feels Good, Do It”, right? I’m Okay, You’re Okay ;)
Drug hysteria is not the only excuse to set up an international police apparatus, and it's not only right wingers. Left wingers may have surpassed the right wingers in ginning up hysteria to build a police state. Your cage is built with a left side and a right side and a back end and a front end and an above ground and an under ground.
I wouldn't say that. I'd say drug hysteria comes exactly from mainstream centrists. "Left-wingers" in America don't have the money, power or will to "build a police state". Right wingers don't have unity or discipline. And considering Iran-Contra, and CIA involvement in cocaine smuggling, I'd say the mainstream right found drug dealing too profitable to use it for police-state building.
Funny. Burroughs was actually very close to a right-winger himself.
no he fuckin wasn't lmaoo you clearly don't read shit and it shows.
@@samaraisnt You obviously haven't even read Burroughs.
@@samaraisnt You are a vulgar moron.
Far from it
Well, Bill was a right-winger…An enthusiastic republican as well…
Rich family, par for the course.
Whom most republicans would wipe the seat after he sat on it.
Actually he was an anarchist-libertarian.
obviously he wasn't, he would never speak that phrase if he was. He loved his guns, though, quite bizarrely dedicated to them. But he was openly gay, and a close friend of Allen Ginsberg. For most of his lifetime, the most conservative politicians were "Dixiecrats", staying in the Democratic Party to spite Lincoln, even 100 years after his death. And northeastern Republicans at the time were fairly liberal. Calling him an "enthusiastic Republican" wouldn't mean what it means today, even if true. Perhaps everyone else in his family were political conservatives, but not him.
Ah, yes. Burroughs: the proudly degenerate, drug addict, queer, anti-authoritarian, anti-Christian right winger. You're smoking something stronger than Old Bill ever layed his hands on.
Except it wasn't "right-wingers", but international Marxists.
Nixon and Reagan weren't Marxists. The USA and it's peculiar bi-partisan Fascism was the origin of the War on Drugs and it's elevation to an worldwide police/military apparatus in the 1980s.
You are wrong my friend
Wrong
That’s a right wing dog whistle for “the Jews,” who right-wingers often blame, when other scapegoats are lacking, for the failings of their own ideology. Like that’s just common knowledge, my dude. There simply isn’t a secret conspiracy of anyone running the world. If fact capitalists and the police quite openly conspire to maintain power, and we real life socialists, are the only one’s pointing that out.
Yeah Reagan was an international Marxist 😂😂😂😂