because it's part of a longer interview....i'll blog them all...it's interesting stuff.. keen to read the Goldsmith biography,and his book "The Trap"..
He can get carried away with his thesis at times, but it's always essential stuff. The BBC needs to run a season of Curtis' films - they're bloody hard to get on DVD!
yeah,it was the Mayfair Set that sparked my interest...Curtis is great (though he does sometimes overextend himself....but still....) to be honest i find these quasi-repenting capitalists (Soros etc) completely fascinating....I have the impression that Goldsmith was an almost shakesperian figure, finally ruined pschologically by what he had helped to unleash....
A lot of those 70s/80s scoundrels were driven by feeling like 'outsiders' (public school anti-semitism had a lot to do with it)- their psychotic need to assert 'individuality' and often being outright gangsters, but still desperate for establishment respect, like Robert Maxwell, or this master of the dark arts:
They kind of make me think of the fanatical, ruthless pirates/spies/sorcerers who surrounded Elizabeth I. A lot of whom ended up on the chopping block...
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Why is this numbered '2'?
because it's part of a longer interview....i'll blog them all...it's interesting stuff.. keen to read the Goldsmith biography,and his book "The Trap"..
Are you familiar with this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mayfair_Set
He can get carried away with his thesis at times, but it's always essential stuff. The BBC needs to run a season of Curtis' films - they're bloody hard to get on DVD!
{ Stunned, stupified silence. }
Stunned at... ?
Re: Your post on news cycle prematurity (elsewhere) -
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Made me laugh...
yeah,it was the Mayfair Set that sparked my interest...Curtis is great (though he does sometimes overextend himself....but still....) to be honest i find these quasi-repenting capitalists (Soros etc) completely fascinating....I have the impression that Goldsmith was an almost shakesperian figure, finally ruined pschologically by what he had helped to unleash....
A lot of those 70s/80s scoundrels were driven by feeling like 'outsiders' (public school anti-semitism had a lot to do with it)- their psychotic need to assert 'individuality' and often being outright gangsters, but still desperate for establishment respect, like Robert Maxwell, or this master of the dark arts:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8241884/David-Hart.html
They kind of make me think of the fanatical, ruthless pirates/spies/sorcerers who surrounded Elizabeth I. A lot of whom ended up on the chopping block...
Stunned, because...on a scale from one to ten?
Accuracy and prescience of Goldsmith's analysis: Goes up to 11.
Amusing Charlie Rose vastly-out-of-my-league fidget factor: 8
Clintonian/corporate lackey flagrant horseshite talking points: Breaks the meter.
If you want to read something really jaw-dropping, then go here:
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2011/01/onset-of-catabolic-collapse.html
Don't get hung up on him being a weirdy-beard. It's a (literally) stunning piece of writing.
Here's another eye-opener:
http://morrisberman.blogspot.com/2011/01/structuralists.html
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