Great job Winston, I’ve been a fan of your music for many years, what an incredible first guest for your own podcast. Btw, I came here after your Trigger interview which I also really enjoyed. Much respect to you mate.
For me, watching this interview is particularly moving - it was when I published (in my university newsmagazine, of which I was Editor) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Word of Freedom" that I was considered to have gone beyond the pale and asked to make a choice between leaving the country and joining the Political Party that was then governing India and had suspended the Indian Constitution in 1975. I have been able to return to my country from time to time but, though I have long wanted to return to actually live there, various things have prevented me from doing so - representing, on one hand, much opportunity and happiness - but also, on the other hand, great sadness.
I think as you both discuss being true to yourselves and your work, I think the word VOCATION should be used. That's the word at the heart of what our purpose in life is, and since you are both Christians, I am surprised at the 20 minute mark, for I haven't seen the whole interview, that no one has used this term...but so glad to have discovered you both. It is refreshing to have people connected so attracted to truth.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "...And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul: don't let him be proud of his progressive views, and don't let him boast that he is an academician or a peoples' artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward, it is all the same to me if I am fed and kept warm..."
I have attended a magnificent concert by Solzhenitzen. He is a magnificent pianist. He played a number of years ago at a „Music in Deerfield“ concert in Massachusetts.
Well done. I watched your interview with Clifton Duncan yesterday, and this one today. Welcome back, Winston. It is nice to see you. I am going to watch again because so much was right about the words and I am going to use them to be one of the brave. I sent you a hug for your emotions at the end. Looking forward to the next.
Merci pour cet entretien magnifique avec le digne fils du géant Soljenitsine! Live not by lies. Thank you both, gentlemen, for living up to such a noble ideal.
Excellent, great to see someone new and the pressure of such a distinguished guest. Cultured strangers: Boccherini: String Quintet in C Major, Op. 30 No. 6 Song by Richard Tognetti you won't be disappointed!
One of the top scholars on authoritarianism and tyranny is Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale. An extremely important voice on these topics. This interview is extremely important given the experience of Alexandr Solzhenitzen as a persecuted political prisoner in the Soviet Union. „Live Not By Lies“ is critically important work.
The first Beethoven symphony I heard was the Fifth. It was also the first record ( vinyl) I ever bought and I also had the pleasure of playing it as a violinist , along with his First and Seventh Synohobies. I have also played Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano, and the piano sonatas. My favorite orher Beethoven works are a late piano sonata, called the „Hammerklavier,“ the „Rasoumovsky“ string quartets, and the „Grosse Fuge“ movement of one of Beethoven‘s late string quartets.
Today I woke up and wondered whatever happened to Winston from Mumford & Son….a quick google search and lo and behold here I am!! Looking forward to hearing his perspective!
Well now I will have to read "Live Not by Lies". As described herein, what it was in its time, it sounds incredibly relevant to the current moment in the west to me. And to be honest, I do not think that relevance is a sudden and new thing. I think this has been going on through my adult life at least since I began to pay attention to the public arena in with a more mature viewpoint of at least being and adult, if a young one. There have been many common lies and fallacies that have been pushed and been winning to get us to this point where now suddenly many people want to stop supporting the evil and cannot do so unless they begin to radically reexamine many things to see all the places where they have participated to some level in creating this current moment.
Sounds, vision and taste of nature is art - art is expressed purposely and spontaneously - that’s what our art is striving to achieve - the most natural expression of our humanity - as bird song is the most natural expression of sound in the animal kingdom.
When Julian Assange was going through his extradition hearings, I began reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn, starting with his shorter biographical work A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
They still haven't translated to English, let alone published Solzhenitsyn last book. Probably because it reveals the elephant in the room that even The Spectator never sees.
Well, at least we now know where Jordan Peterson gets most of his word salad inspiration from. If you don't think that these two speak in exactly the same way, then I don't know what to think. Even the intonations are similar.
