A brilliant and insightful fellow is Lewis Lapham. One never encounters this kind of deep thought in the mainstream media because the media, by it's very nature precludes it... as Marshall McLuhan predicted. To truly understand the world today we have to turn off the tv, read our history and start thinking for ourselves.. as our ancestors did. Great vid. thanks for posting it
This is Lewis Lapham at his better voice, at least for me. I find him in this very good interview, understandable and enjoyable. He is a senior statesman of journalism, and the stature of the man's dignity comes through. So does his clear moral voice, entertainingly so for my taste. But then I always liked Lewis Lapham. Peter Menkin Mill Valley, CA USA (north of San Francisco)
R Dubois Four years later, the patrician class is more-or-less the American ruling class. It still exists, but not as rulers, a status that has been usurped by the super-rich.
T remember The Saturday Evening Post, we had it when I was born, 1949, and it Broke my Hears when it folded, I was into Cut-outs from William S. Burroughs lectures and those 1950's magazines make great Art. Creating Art from Art, by Sizzers, Xfacto knives and Watercolours, ***how wonderful to remembere***
What is the Difference in Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bizarre? This man is the Last Good Man Standing. I am 73 Of Years moved to San Francisco in 1984, all in all San Francisco it still better than any other American City, only better is Tijuana, MX where cost of living means a person with Old Age Pension can live like Upper Middle Class in USA. Of course people are fed horror stories about Mexico, but I lived in Tijuana 2000-2006 with my Ham Radio on the Apartment Roof, Apartment was $100 a month, I could walk across to San Diego, or ride the bus to The Beach with my Guitar and serenade the Senorita's, Oy Vey!
It’s always been about power. True that the founders were all White Anglos but I’ve realized that power and privileged have no color distinctions. It’s purely an awful human trait that ignites when we no longer have faith in God but rather in ourselves.
His voice and accent are those of the patrician class. That can definitely sound pompous. So the music of his voice may sound pompous, but his whole attitude is critical of that very class. He may *sound* pompous, but I don't think that his attitude is, and that's what counts. Now, his CIA interviewers and their questions about golf, yachting, and Minxie -- THAT's pompous.
A brilliant and insightful fellow is Lewis Lapham. One never encounters this kind of deep thought in the mainstream media because the media, by it's very nature precludes it... as Marshall McLuhan predicted. To truly understand the world today we have to turn off the tv, read our history and start thinking for ourselves.. as our ancestors did.
Great vid. thanks for posting it
and listen to Chomsky. ; )
This is Lewis Lapham at his better voice, at least for me. I find him in this very good interview, understandable and enjoyable.
He is a senior statesman of journalism, and the stature of the man's dignity comes through. So does his clear moral voice, entertainingly so for my taste.
But then I always liked Lewis Lapham.
Peter Menkin
Mill Valley, CA USA
(north of San Francisco)
Great interview. Lapham is a member of the patrician class, but is a rarity, as he has integrity founded on understanding and the the 'good.'
Forgive me, but isn't the patrician class referring to an ancient roman class? I don't understand the connection.
R Dubois Four years later, the patrician class is more-or-less the American ruling class. It still exists, but not as rulers, a status that has been usurped by the super-rich.
@@morecowbell235 Lapham calls it the Equestrian class (based on the Imperial Roman system). And it is the American ruling class.
@@thelawfus Got it thanks!
T remember The Saturday Evening Post, we had it when I was born, 1949, and it Broke my Hears when it folded, I was into Cut-outs from William S. Burroughs lectures and those 1950's magazines make great Art. Creating Art from Art, by Sizzers, Xfacto knives and Watercolours, ***how wonderful to remembere***
Laphan , one of a kind: and at Harper's... he answered his own phone: unheard of ......
Very good interview.
What is the Difference in Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bizarre? This man is the Last Good Man Standing. I am 73 Of Years moved to San Francisco in 1984, all in all San Francisco it still better than any other American City, only better is Tijuana, MX where cost of living means a person with Old Age Pension can live like Upper Middle Class in USA. Of course people are fed horror stories about Mexico, but I lived in Tijuana 2000-2006 with my Ham Radio on the Apartment Roof, Apartment was $100 a month, I could walk across to San Diego, or ride the bus to The Beach with my Guitar and serenade the Senorita's, Oy Vey!
"History is a way of learning about ourselves as human beings...."
William Appleman Williams
Less than 50 percent of Americans have a college degree . Thats not done by accident.
Compared to what? Feel free to expand on that?
What are the %'s in other high income countries?
Elite cream floats high, Big Money!
It’s always been about power.
True that the founders were all White Anglos but I’ve realized that power and privileged have no color distinctions.
It’s purely an awful human trait that ignites when we no longer have faith in God but rather in ourselves.
Way too pompous for my ears.
what's pompous about this? He's a man who had a distinguished career and is reflecting on it.... Is dedication and commitment pompous?
@@bradleyasztalos6650 That and his astute and accurate observations on the ruling class and the workings of power.
I feel that you may be misunderstanding his position(s).
His voice and accent are those of the patrician class. That can definitely sound pompous. So the music of his voice may sound pompous, but his whole attitude is critical of that very class. He may *sound* pompous, but I don't think that his attitude is, and that's what counts. Now, his CIA interviewers and their questions about golf, yachting, and Minxie -- THAT's pompous.
@@jdtoddjazz That's a rather archaic term. The only time I've heard the use of 'patrician' was for the upper / elite class in ancient Rome.