S25E05 Firing Line w/ William F. Buckley, "Is There a Theme to Bonfire of the Vanities? Tom Wolfe

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Season 25, Episode 5. Firing Line with William F. Buckley, "Is There a Theme to Bonfire of the Vanities? Guests: Tom Wolfe. Air Date: Jan 26, 1990.
Program details: Is Mr. Wolfe simply an (unusually brilliant) observer? Or does he have a reform agenda, a la Dickens and Zola? A quicksilver conversation about the social scene, the art of the novel, and more. TW: "New York and many large cities in this Country today are like resort communities in that the wealth, the prestige, celebrity, high life, luxury belong to one set of people. Political power belongs to the natives. And the advantages of the swell life are yours only so long as there is no conflict... with the
native political structure." ... TW: "I never like to think of Bonfire in terms of a thesis because ... that sets boundaries. If it's only this, then it can't be that." WFB: "Yes, I understand that, but at the same time I simply decline to think of you as entirely passive... I believe that you do get indignant. I believe that there are things you genuinely don't like even though you try to treat them with a certain dispassion that makes them literature."
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@christopherrobbins9985 Год назад

Beautiful discussion.

@WhocaresWhy44 4 месяца назад

I knew a man who became frustrated with his landlord. A fire broke out of an electrical nature. The source of the fire. Romex making contact with a nail causing the framing and plywood to ignite? The Television melted. The local college paper featured a front page photograph of the melted TV. Atop it was a copy of Bonfires of the Vanities. This tenant was an original customer of a coffee shop that became a franchise. Other original customer heard of his situation. Go Fund Me pages were not around them. Yet a placard was placed on a bank window appealing for funds for this man. The other original customers put up flyers with the pitch. "Let's keep this friendly face in the neighborhood." This episode of firing line evoked this recollection.

@wesleysmith5275 4 месяца назад

interesting/random, your name kind of says it all

@wesleysmith5275 4 месяца назад

thank you for uploading!

@geniusmchaggis 7 лет назад

hey! this vid was published on my BIRTHDAY! nice. thanks MIKE ALPHA.

@ElSmusso 6 лет назад

RIP TOM WOLFE

@SlappyG 6 лет назад

ElSmusso ...R.I.P. WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.

@WintersWar 4 года назад

I don't like that these two are gone. left a void.

@STWRITES1 11 месяцев назад

A modern version of "The Terrors" in France.

@geniusmchaggis 7 лет назад

buckleys question @ 5:43!!! a sweet taste of his easy eloquent complexity of mind.

@terencerosenthal6693 5 лет назад

Guys, quit busting on Buckley because you dont like his politics. Gore Vidal and Christopher Hitchens act the same way, and everyone thinks they're oh so brilliant. Just enjoy the style of these two sparring partners. Both were brilliant.

@David-wc5zl 6 месяцев назад

LOL. Buckley was a racist, dude. Good to knows you believe in censorship. Why do you hate America?

@wesleysmith5275 4 месяца назад

well said

@craigbrelsford 19 дней назад

Buckley caved on immigration. For that he deserves everlasting contempt.

@PhilipShawn 5 месяцев назад

Never heard of Strategic Hamlet Initiative. And the disembowelling of Ngo Diem

@j.p.holiday8899 3 года назад

Buckley acts and sits like I feel when I'm happily stoned.

@user-mi4rm7ih6s 2 года назад

lmao facts

@shannonm.townsend1232 8 месяцев назад

As usual, Buckley's barking up the wrong tree, but very entertaining nonetheless. Thanks for posting.

@wesleysmith5275 4 месяца назад

not sure of what you mean? Buckley is typically on top of the conversation, this time they kind of agreed with each other.

@Ferocious_Imbecile 2 месяца назад

The most intelligent show on TV of its day...not saying much but it's a fact.

@TheMarshmelloKing 2 года назад

the audio on this sounds like it was recorded on a dollar store walkie talkie submerged at the bottom of a well

@margotbw4660 5 месяцев назад

Thats what tv used to be like

@wesleysmith5275 4 месяца назад

oh yeah? cool story bro

@shenkaed 6 лет назад

The irony, that Buckley, slouching in his throne self importantly, is a portrait of the pseudo intellectuals and high society types the book satirised is very comical indeed.

@roughhabit9085 19 дней назад

Idk , if you’re considered to be an outstanding Yale graduate you’d have to be fairly intellectual, and these guys are of course Bonesman buddies. Now thats a pretty exclusive society isn’t it?

@Myndir 3 года назад

Adultery and leaving the scene of an accident without reporting - the things that Buckley's lawyer would take care of, in olden days!

@wesleysmith5275 4 месяца назад

cope

@roughhabit9085 17 дней назад

In the version I listened to , they agreed adultery was not a crime so why would a lawyer need to take care of that?

@PhilipShawn 5 месяцев назад

PHBullsh...

@prussianjunker1777 5 лет назад

I wish Buckley would stop talking and allow Wolfe to speak a little bit . . . .

@craigbrelsford Год назад

Buckley caved on immigration and for that deserves everlasting contempt.

@David-wc5zl 6 месяцев назад

There's that UnAmerican Conservative Fear! Why do you hate America?

@roughhabit9085 24 дня назад

He single handedly shifted American politics to the right . What have you done?

@craigbrelsford 24 дня назад

@@roughhabit9085I have in my small way stood athwart the immivasion, yelling, “Stop!” Buckley, who could have done much to stop the unceasing immigrant tide, instead twiddled his thumbs.

@roughhabit9085 17 дней назад

Well he literally popularised the notion of limited government and I think there is a correlation between big spending governments and mass immigration; it’s an unscrupulous way of mitigating the damage that deficit spending can do. So in a way he did his bit . He’s the last person you should be using as a scapegoat.

@craigbrelsford 17 дней назад

@@roughhabit9085A scapegoat is someone who takes all the blame. Buckley doesn’t deserve all the blame. But he knew Enoch Powell, knew Powell’s warnings on the perils of mass, uncontrolled immivasion. Buckley decided he’d rather sip Chardonnay than to stand with Powell and stand athwart the immivasion.

@AngusRockford 6 лет назад

I love listening to Buckley feigning umbrage on behalf of the malefactors of great wealth while sitting on a cheesy throne his secretary ordered for him from Crate & Barrel using funds from the Friends of Firing Line account.

@tommym321 3 года назад

@guyontheblackchair ha! Great comment 😂

@wesleysmith5275 4 месяца назад

ramblings of a mad man

@roughhabit9085 24 дня назад

Apart from writing 50 bestsellers he gave 80 speeches a year for $10-15K a night. I think he could afford his own furniture.

@MetFansince 3 года назад

I've been watching a lot of these Firinglines lately and it seems that Buckley either had on guests who had something to promote, people who agreed with him, or total lightweights that he could tear apart.

@tommym321 3 года назад

My favorite is the one with Noam Chomsky. Buckley got rolled. Chomsky showed up with all the receipts