I once saw Alan Moore having a coffee at Milton Keynes train station and it was like witnessing the second coming of Christ in a room of nonbelievers.

I could listen to Alan Moore discuss the evolution of grass for hours on end and still be absolutely captivated. Kudos to you for a job well done!

Writing changes the reader's consciousness. A simple and profound idea.

Even if someone don't want to become a "professional" writter, or philosopher, or simply thinker, you must have an intellectual part, you must write down your thoughts and feelings, or take note of things that interest you and fuel your thoughts and emotions. Writting is indeed magic. Mr. Alan Moore - agree or disagree with him - spoke a global truth: writting can change you and by writting you can change others. It *magically* gives flesh to your thoughts, gives them existence.

"Discipline. Consistency. Deadlines. Creativity. Reflection. Repeat." --an award-winning author 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

Writing is magic.

As someone who gestures and grunts, I feel called out

I guess I will start reading everything by Alan Moore because he's so on point.

This mans voice makes me want to levitate

I think he discounts the power of COLLECTIVE memory and the pre-literate oral tradition, but there's still much of value here.

Brilliant. 🎉 Alan Moore's insights . Writing is thinking Writing is transformation Writing is a way of Life It is a philosophy

Ironically, I have to develop as a person and figure out who I am and what I believe by watching videos, reading books, listening to podcasts because my world is so small and I do not have the means to expand it through travel and meeting people from different backgrounds and prospectives. I often wonder if any of what I believe is real and if I traveled I will find that the greater world is a very different place then the one I am creating in my mind through the media I consume.

The funny thing is that when we hear Alan Moore talk about any subject, we're certain we're not listening to an expert but a prophet. Eternal life to the wizard.

I first properly discovered Mr Moore’s writing in the pages of Warrior magazine & Swamp Thing which I used to purchase as an alienated teenager in a local newsagent in provincial Northern Ireland in the 1980s. They were life altering, horizon expanding experiences. He has been a creative inspiration across multiple mediums in my life since. Greatly enjoyed this & just want to say thanks. ✨

Imagine arriving at Hogwarts and he is the headmaster. “It doesn’t matter if Voldemort is gone, Harry. We are still living in a faux-democracy. Authority is the true dark Lord we must defeat.”

I'm really looking forward to "The Great When: Long London Book 1". I absolutely love Moore's comics work, but I love his prose works even more. Great segment!

Alan Moore inspired me to write this comment. Thanks, Alan.

A big fan of Mr Moore.

His voice is so good and convincible.

Very inspiring. This puts together several ideas I've had in a cogent way.

just in time when Im trying to learn more, Im just starting to write my second book

Long time ago that I don't see too much hair in a same head. Like the ancients wises. Love this man

God I love that man probably one of the most underrated great thinkers of all time

As my dad told me when I was very young ".. You'll eventually find the answer - don't rush it" :)

interesting take on writing , im a big fan x

Great author

Thanks for this

Excelent advice. I was a creative writing major, and a lot of college children definitely needed it.

amazing

He is great.

Powerful

Very educational.

It's high time for the British royalty to confer upon this man the title of sir.

Thank you Alan Moore for giving us Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta & Watchmen!!

This is brilliant, however... - writing could have been first used to record grain storage for the winter, etc. to enable folk to survive, thanks to bureaucrats. Also there seems to be evidence of certain cultures, in early times, being averse to the written word and preferring knowledge being passed on by reliable / trusted teachers. Regardless of how important these two points are, it is a joy to listen to a real maestro - and someone who seems to be a genuinely decent bloke

I can confirm that this philosophy is interesting. It is poetic, and inspirational.

excellent video. i never comment, but this is excellent.

One of the GREATS.............

very tru

Love hearing people talk about the occult powers of language and taking it seriously

Hell yeah.

Epic

Maestro .

Thank Glycon for the Magus!

Interesting mudras, MagicMan

He's cool

i dont know how much more character development i can take Alan...

I love when people talk slowly, beacuse I can understand them well

Alan Moore is the truth

The master

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One of the features of shamanism is change or transition and if you can effect change, if you can turn one thing into another ie. tragedy into comedy, then by this metric, comedians are shamans. 😂 They are right out there showing the world how to make such a shift in thinking, in feeling and so one.🥰😂

I tried writing my OWN philosophy of language

Philosophy is not something that u can learn.U can only Imitate. It's one of the hardest fields.And that's why there so few philosophers

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"To cast a spell is simply to spell." - Alan Moore

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Maestro, you are right. Alas, I know what books can do. Flute or pen I shall not use to charm anyone. Not even for their own good.

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Dumbledore, Gandalf, Three-Eyed Raven.. all in a nut'shell. 😂

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Thats a wizard!

I will always write phosphate. I mean, philosophy! 😂

"Content" has entered the chat. 😮😮😮

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Dude can talk about the shit he took this morning and make it sound amazing.

Didn't he write the Watchmen

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I love you Alan. Thank you for demistifying the materialistic bulsh*t and sanctifying the pagan in all of us.

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Much as I hate to correct the great Alan Moore, the early Bards memorised everything - we believe there was a Druidic taboo against writing. However, if you replace "writing" with "creating stories" everything makes perfect sense. Writing is relatively modern compared to the magical origins of storytelling.

Alan's grandchildren are my cousins

I feel like I was just lectured by a grand wizard

God is that you?

profound

I really like the beginning of this video. His later points about writing being the seperator between cavemen and civilization feels very ignorant though given the plethora of cultures which were able to store information across generations orally with remarkable accuracy without written language.

What is a “wroita”? 😉😄

What a block

a red-blooded genius

I know Alan Moore from Watchmen and V for Vendetta I really liked the concept of Doctor Manhattan and I wonder what if dr Manhattan had the background of Rorschach what he would have become in relation to the human species that are in some special cases despicable

No wonder people unironically identify with Rorschach, despite him being as repulsive and incompetent as he is. Alan Moore really is The GOAT.

What Alan’s describing in the first few minutes is dialectical materialism, the philosophical foundation of Marxism and Communism

My name's Del Winterbottom. I've been a fiction writer for 15 years. And, well, here's one of my effects on the entirety of the human future. It's a scene from my 11th book (so far, I've written one chapter). Let me know what you think 😊 Last I was here, it did not end well... For you: Marcellus Garcia. The cold dismal day. Damp streets. Grey sky. The Condensated shop-windows. I followed you through the market. When you stopped, I stalked. Quiet as Death before the swing of the scythe. Could it have been the breeze? The way that puddle rippled? Or how the crows scattered… I’ll never be sure… But like lightning, you fled. I chased like the wind. You knocked a woman over and her groceries flew. Barking dogs. The school bells rang. Discordant children. At last, your gasp. I knew you’d give. Breathless, you saw Mitas’ crowned king, Rauze Aruld, on the balcony of his palace, waving at his fools. Then he waved at you… I wonder… Did he wave goodbye? You thought the alley was a good move… That in shadow, I wouldn’t see you. Shivering, you thought you were watching me… But he was my decoy, whom I conned to don my cloak. You had no clue I was breathing down your nape. No inkling my knife was pointing at your heart. ‘Til your eyes followed that first drop of rain. First the splash. Then the plunge. In my arms, you slept...never to wake again.

I generally have a lot of time for Moore's views on these things, but he's not quite right about the necessity of writing for building a corpus of knowledge and a history of events, and so on. Many cultures that had no writing have detailed verbally transmitted histories. My grandmother's culture had verbal stories that accurately described changes to the landscape as the ice age retreated, that describe the first visits by early European sailors, and many other things.

This is the only good kind of writing advice. None of this "follow these stringent rules from Joseph Campbell's self help books" nonsense. Writing isn't a thing you can just teach someone, it's something you have to teach yourself. It's an intuition that exists only to yourself. Know yourself, know your heritage, know your world. The rest is buzz.

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writing out this comment to have an effect on human history and the entirety of the human future.

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Holy crap. The first 2 minutes explains why Hollywood can’t make a good movie anymore. The combination of writers, directors, and studio decision makers result in movies that make absolutely no attempt to understand the world or morality of anyone but the activist left. Every movie and TV show is about political power, and none of them explore anything. And this explains why. People who have an inclination to explore are cut out of the creative process. It all makes sense now.

“Its all bullshit anyway” - Alan Moore

Aha yes. The subject of Roiting. Roiting is magical, genuine, and serious. Did I write this? No! I roit this!

If only everyone from shoe town was that open-minded

What is this thing he's talking about, a "roiter"?

He doesn't give a damn about money

This criticism doesn’t really challenge his ultimate conclusions but he wrong about the trivia of the origin of writing. Writing developed out of the mundane tracking of grain and trade, not stone age shamanism, and he dramatically underestimates the retention of information by illiterate oral societies. If we are being charitable then we can call these aesthetic statements. But I love Alan Moore, what he is saying about the value of writing is as good as anything. If his conclusion is that writing can change the world and human consciousness, then I can’t disagree with any of that.

I love Alan Moore but I'm not happy to see he's letting his t-shirt text dictate his beard length

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I don't really want to be a řœter,. but he looks wœse.