I don't know what you're talking about. I've met Eric before and seen him many times on video. Not only is he in person one of the most down to earth, kind, very likeable......nah,that's all bullshit. He's a douche.
Agreed. It was tedious waiting for him to get to the point. Let's face it, we're all here for Peter Hitchens, but the interviewer's ego and effort to make it about himself, hindered the process somewhat.
They're all the same, aren't they? Infatuated with the notion of their own importance. And oblivious to the fact that no one is there to listen to them.
This interviewer is terrible. He spoke more than Hitchens did and seems very self-satisfied and self-absorbed. I bet Peter was biting his tongue through a lot of that.
American interviewers are too often stupid, uncultured, uninformed, and embarrassing. I say that as someone unfortunate to have been born in America. Too many people here are proud of their vulgarity.
Christopher Hitchens was the successful gangster boss of the Hitchens family. Supporting the illegal and disastrous Bush II invasion of Iraq, which has had catastrophic consequences and hundreds of thousands dead condemns him as a morally vacuous figure.
And much less talented than Christopher. Overcompensates by his insufferable arrogance. It is apparent that becoming a Christian did not improve him in that respect, despite his protestations to the contrary...
Don't get me wrong, Christopher is and shall continue to be my guy; but it's odd to see an interview where the tacit topic is "let's talk diagonally about your more interesting late brother."
Who let this Eric Mataxsmas interview the brilliant Peter Hitchens. Hopelessly out of his depth but Peter was civil towards him despite the inane questioning.
Christopher was a giant among men. His eloquence and intellect in the command of language, was unmatched. His real-world experiences to truly know what he was talking about was also unmatched. He is missed.
Peter Hitchens has taken sibling rivalry to a level 1000. His whole philosophy seems to be stretched to the opposite pole of his elder brother on purpose.
What absolute nonsense. He has his own conservative outlook and faith, to simply reduce him to the level of being a reflection of his brother is just insulting. He has published many books which are extensively researched and argued, and stand in their own right. The idea that he has done all this just to be the opposite of his brother is frankly silly.
@@reggie18b The video got lots of views and the low IQ Christopher Hitchens fans started flooding in, I can't exactly blame them, after all it was the whole point of uploading the video - i.e. to generate clicks
Kind of a disappointing exchange. The question was obviously about the philosophical differences that led to their bad terms. Peter just muses on the commonality of family issues and Freud. Interviewer is kind of cringe though.
You did. He pointed out the "interviewers" pretentiosness with utter class. I dont really like Peter but this really was some of the best dialogue Ive seen that he has been a part of.
It was a delicate situation. Two brothers internationally renowned who did not get on very well. It required much more tact diplomacy and discretion as well as a great deal more of allowing his guest to speak than this interviewer displayed.
Yah well thanks for that Mr Freud. As a British man.....I kinda already know, and my statement above wasn't about Peter's 'british-ness'. @@Besthinktwice
He’s a world famous radio host named Ronald Metaxas, so most people watching are more interested in hearing him speak. Peter Hitchens is just icing on the cake.
All he had to do was come up with some good follow up questions, but was not up to the task! He could have just said something like, now I think our audience might be quite surprised and a little intrigued by your answer, simply because you look and sound so much like your brother and you both had similar talents. Do you think that despite this, you were actually very different from each other? In what ways?
one can be dazzled by brilliance and articulation - it does not necessarily mean th orator is right - all they do is select material to promote their views
@@MrZORROish youre right. Christopher hitchens has been proven wrong about quite a few things. One of these is the invasion of iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussain
Christopher Hitchens is literally the man who finally set me free of the crippling influence of faith on the mind. Comedians, philosophers, so many with the same message, "Man is free the moment he chooses to be" _Voltaire. I discovered his videos posthumously and will be indebted to that great man for the courage to speak truth to power, to challenge the willing, cheerful ignorance of the masses who long to be sheep and share simple, unvarnished truth. No one who debated him ever successfully made their point that faith is superior to reason. Well, how could they? "Faith is the belief in what reason cannot" __Voltaire 'Atheist's Handbook', can't recommend enough.
You are never free of the cares of life though. The need to eat and find shelter the loss of health and the need to answer the calls of nature. The pain of loss of friends and everything else one holds dear in life. These things will affect believer and atheist alike. The theist's only hope is that there is redemption.
My experience with discovering Christopher Hitchens on youtube was similar to yours. Just opened up my perspective and clarified a lot of things. It is nice to find a person with the ability of thought once in a while.
"Logic" is associated with the left hemisphere of the brain, whereas "intuition" is associated with the right hemisphere. The more your two hemisphere work in tandem, the more you will begin to realize that all the religions are pointing to the same reality underlying the physical universe, although things get lost in translation over thousands of years.
Oof, interviewer out of his depth. Peter lets him stumble on with cringy results, it was a missed opportunity to dig deeper. Christopher would have seemed nicer and helped him early on, but a verbal skewering would have been dished out as he lost his patience.
I think the point he's making is that Christopher was very well-known in the USA and so they think of Peter as 'brother of chirstopher' whereas in the UK we know them both as separate people. So I think Peter is showing annoyance here that this is how he is to be understood - as the brother of somebody
I made that mistake onetime by referring to the person I was addressing as the brother of someone well known. He brusquely replied. No. He is a brother of mine! @@williamtoner8674
I felt that Eric Mataxas, the interviewer, was ingenuous, sensitive, and fascinated with what I also see as a thought provoking little mystery about the difference in views of the brothers (not that it needs to be solved). Eric’s genuine curiosity seemed to properly draw Peter out. The pause and Eric's face after Peter said "No" were amazing. Peter was relaxed, and I didn’t notice any condescension, snobbery or discomfort in him at all; he’s too much of a real deal human being for that rubbish. The audience enjoyed Peter’s dry wit, and when that happens, one should realize the interviewer is doing their job. Eric is talkative, so what? Sometimes the interviewer is just as interesting as the interviewee, and I was once surprised that a black British lady interviewer with an incredible laugh (forgot her name) who interviewed Harrison Ford - who had a rarely witnessed laughing spell 🤣🤣🤣 - was just as interesting as he was.
Both blessed with the Hitch Gene albeit completely opposite sides of the same coin. I'm much more on Christopher's side but it's always a pleasure to hear from both brothers. Please Mother Nature concoct a lot of combinations like this: we need them.
I must say, I did enjoy this from Peter Hitchens. He will always live in the shadow of his brother, funnily enough it was him I saw first on bbc Newsnight.
I feel sorry for Peter, he has lived and will live the rest of his life in the shadow of Cristofer, who was an outstanding writer, journalist and speaker, respected by people who had a similar vision and by detractors, unlike Peter. And to the believers reading this, especially the channel owner, DO NOT DECEIVE YOURSELF, most people watching this video are watching it because of Christopher Hitchens, not his brother.
I have two sons. They are half blood siblings. I tell them every day since they were little kids. People will come and go. Always. Always. Always stick together
This was very intriguing. I'll be looking into more material from Peter. You can definitely see and hear Christopher in him. Both eloquent speakers with pleasant voices and witty, dry senses of humor.
Peter is a fantastic public speaker and a very thoughtful political commentator. And the best thing is he answers to no one. He is not part of any political party or group. He is fearless and honest.
I had four siblings. I only got on well with one of them, now deceased. I get on with one more, though that can get stressful at times. Two of them are bone idle and entitled, happy to hold out their hands for a living, and I rarely speak with them as I have little in common with them. I love them all dearly though
@@goodyeoman4534 Having never met a human being who isn't in some way biased (because such a creature does not exist) and not being any kind of sycophant, I'm curious as to know exactly where are you going with this.
Hitchens, he simply asked if you were close, you answered "no". He then asked if you could elaborate which I'm sure you could have done. Instead you berated him for presuming things he did not presume, lecturing him on the purported frequency of estranged siblings in society. He said nothing about those things, he did not say you should be close or it was surprising you were close. Like your brother you are overly rhetorical and obtuse.
@@jameshogan6142 you seem very simple, I guess religion has done it's work on you as well, simplistic minds are the first to fall, and you are the perfect example.
In my opinion Christopher was widely entertaining, extremely charismatic and unbelievably intelligent. Peter on the other hand… not so much. Just from watching this short clip I can see why they didn’t get along.
If you are unable to appreciate both brothers commentary, you've ceased being able to think for yourself and fallen for the intellectual partisan trap.
Both brothers are interesting, yes. However, only Christoper is _accurate._ Peter, on the other hand, cares mostly about the optics and utility of propositions, rather than their truth or falsity. Perhaps he doesn't even think that truth exists (some people don't). But it does, and it is important, and unless humankind starts to learn that, and soon, it will probably go extinct before this century is over.
If you imagine both brothers sitting at a dinner table talking politics, then you can easily imagine them falling out. Christopher, in particular, seemed like a man of ironclad principles, who could distance himself from someone who shared different beliefs on fundamental ideas. That said, who knows what goes on in families. It could also be something related to their parents, which neither of them was ever going to speak about publicly.
The decline and death of their mother proved critical in their opposing and somewhat extreme approaches to life. One became a puritan and one became a hedonist. Grief can for some only show itself in an obstinate position drawn against it.
The short answer "NO!" was a hint so the interviewer stopped talking so much. He didn't get it. There's more. With the intent to praise his voice (Hitchens) and the similarities to his brother, the interviewer took soooooo long to come the question part that he almost stoll our change to hear it. Get to the point!
"How can this guy be related to Christopher Hitchens? -Same parents. Anything else I can help you with?" that's so simple and funny at the same time 😂😂
It may be common but it’s unnatural to not be on good terms with your immediate family. Even so, I respect Peter for not enjoying his brother’s shtick.
@@stevendouglas3781You're free to to do what you please but be damned for eternity if you don't do as your told. Eternal slavery is the punishment. Of course it's all nonsense, but it does show the minds of those that proselytize it as such.
Jesus, they really are two sides of the same damn coin. Both are incredible writers, both are among the most eloquent speakers in history, both are incredibly intelligent, and both are strictly no nonsense. But their ideological views are diametrically opposed. What an incredible family.
I get where he is coming from I’ve never been close with my brother, we haven’t spoken in 10 years, there’s no Freudian reason we’ve just never been close.
There is a superb chapter on Christopher Hitchens in David Horowitz's "Radicals", free on Audible. Some of the Christopher fanboys might get outraged, as it dares to criticise some of Christopher's views, but for objective minds it's an exemplary chapter of an otherwise forgettable book.
let us just say, i have a sister who has such a psychosis which makes her seem so real and truth is she has no idea how far we have travelled together with her in my head
re: "No" as the answer to "Were you and your brother close?" Most elaborate through their emotions. Simple facts are clearer. Even during this discussion, Eric talking to Peter is like Dr McCoy talking to Spock.
