Christopher Hitchens

[Anonymous No.5198820]

Can it be said that his biggest fault was that he was so afraid of a "1984" happening in the Western World, that he was willing to let a "Brave New World" (which most likely would have eventually lead to a 1984 anyway, although by different means) happen instead?

[Anonymous No.5198823]

What was so great about this man again?

[Anonymous No.5198824]

Hitchens had a romanticized outlook of how the world should be, imo he read too much Thomas Paine.

[Anonymous No.5198827]

>>5198823
He could hold his liquor really well. That's about all I can think of.

[Anonymous No.5198831]

>>5198827
He was sauced from dusk till dawn and could out read 99% of /lit/*

[Anonymous No.5198839]

>>5198820
I can be said that he was a neoliberal shill and apologist for international war crimes.

[Anonymous No.5198843]

>>5198823
He was an entertaining dilettante, who was highly articulate and an amusing debater, even if he often had only sketchy knowledge of his topics.

[Anonymous No.5198874]

>>5198820
>Christian-fascists try to subvert the American Constitution's Separation of Church and State at every possible chance they get.
We must stop these brown shirts! Religion is the greatest threat to the survival of Democracy!

>Powerful Corporate and Private interests have their lobbyists work day and night to finance and continue financing representative members of Congress to vote, keep voting, and obscure and twist laws to mean whatever they want on whatever their bosses want.
YOU LITTLE SHITS! BE GRATEFUL YOU LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH! IT'S EITHER THIS OR THE GULAG!

[Anonymous No.5199461]

He was a hypocrite: he had the gall to call himself a Marxist, even near the end of his life, when he was just another imperialist in the vein of Kipling or Conrad.

He also seemed to think Orwell did no wrong, and followed jingoistic sentiments in essays such as "My Country Right or Left."

A mediocre, arrogant and charming man who picked easy fights.

[Anonymous No.5199489]

Anyone read this?

I thought it seemed a bit hastily written, but argued the points well.

>All these Hitchens fans giving it bad reviews

[Anonymous No.5199521]

That's what 1984 was about, though. It gave us the world as is to compare to the supposed "nightmare" Huxley presents. There's a knee-jerk Adam-and-Eve-syndrome reaction against the supposed dystopias presented in books like 1984 and We; everyone's obsessed with being a special little darling because they figure that their footing in eternity (see: Kafka's Metamorphosis). "Human factory farm" is a common categorisation -- oh, that we might be regarded as cattle! But wait a second -- by whom? Some people will eat pizza with a fucking fork for fear that they might inadvertently consider themselves animals.

[Anonymous No.5199527]

>>5199521
Or, uh..."in books like BNW or WE."

[Anonymous No.5199563]

Huxley said, "Brave New World." Orwell laughed and retorted, "Things will never change; look what we're currently dealing with."

The Two Minutes Hate was also a piss-take of the Two Hundred Years War in We.

[Anonymous No.5199627]

He was a fedora-core edgemaster and his writings were high school level, I have no idea why anybody takes this faggot seriously other than the fact that being a New Atheist is "cool" and somewhat counterculture these days to the e-intelligentsia.

Dude will be forgotten in a decade tops, he contributed nothing to literature or even society and his "sharp wit" was never actually demonstrated.

[Anonymous No.5199637]

>>5198820
No, his biggest and only fault was that he bought into the sympathy towards Iraqi people that Saddam should be removed from power...by the United States and Britain while not understanding that Saddam's way of ruling was not for power but was a direct response to extreme radicals.
Want to see what happens when you don't have such a forceful dictator in Iraq? Look at ISIS.

[Anonymous No.5199647]

>>5198823
>>5198827
He was one of the greatest orators and most logical, intelligent, and wise thinkers of our generation as far as society is concerned.

[le trole faec ಠ_ಠ !Avm1fqtITk No.5199663]

>>5199627
Well it's a good thing we have a keyboard warrior around to tell us all.

[Anonymous No.5199667]

>>5199647
Truly he was the only real god, among the likes of Carl Sagan and Neil De Grass Tyson.

[Anonymous No.5199674]

>>5199667
>as far as society is concerned

lrn2read
you're on a lit board for chrissake

[Anonymous No.5199765]

>>5198827
People only remember him now for his writings on atheism. They forget he had a superb command of English literature and frequently wrote on topics outside of politics and religion.

[Anonymous No.5199864]

>>5199647
no
he seemed it
his politics was immensely retarded

[Anonymous No.5199994]

neocon shill

best thing he ever wrote was that piece on why women aren't funny