My father taught me to question everything. Unfortunately, I didn't really do that until much later in life. Mr. Byrne provides a valuable lesson here.
@jabbermocky45206 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Mr. Byrne and Mr. Jay. As an American writer I am starving for conversations like this. They simply are not possible in most information sharing venues where the polarization of extreme opinions aggressively shuts down careful thought and reason. I have always loved Gabriel Byrne as an actor but now he has my full respect as a man, also. Can't wait for the next installment of this brilliant conversation. ( Wish I had extra money to help support TheRealNews. )
@chloebell4325 жыл бұрын
I realize this sounds a bit crazy but..there is something deep and special about Gabriel Byrne. Not many young men dealve into critical thought at such a young time in their lives, as he did..and still continues to do. Who knew?
@zeke87016 жыл бұрын
As someone who learned to think critically in my early 20s, I appreciate hearing another man's story. Critical thinking is such a rare thing in America. My own journey involved a severe bout with PTSD and the resulting search for who I was. Took me yrs but I eventually restored myself.
@carmelroach7306 жыл бұрын
What a brilemt guest im irish and for a man who did very well in hollyweard he hase come out with his soul intatch i proud of my fellow irishman and still hase his feet fermily on the ground never forgot his ruths that is what i call a man
@themsmloveswar39856 жыл бұрын
Wake up !!! He produced a clip full of inaccuracies, and cliches. You are telling the world that you are as clueless as Byrne.
@nutbagus6 жыл бұрын
Excellent Interview G. B. Reminds me Of My Acting Teacher Hoctor Very Wise Man Let us Put on First Anti VN War Play "Bring it All back Home"At high school in 1970 great man.
@andrewwright26516 жыл бұрын
At 13.05, Byrne incorrectly places Thatcher in Office from 1980 to 1997. She was actually PM from 1979 to 1991. John Major was PM until 1997 when Tony Blair’s New Labour took power.
@stevehillier70186 жыл бұрын
Andrew Wright 28th November 1990 is when John Major started office
@JSB18826 жыл бұрын
I thought that the last actual interviewer on TV was Bill Moyers, but Paul Jay does such a great job with his interviews.
@adc86556 жыл бұрын
Always interesting to hear personal stories.
@salubrious Жыл бұрын
The problem with some of the unions in Britain prior to Thatcher was that they had the country by the balls, essentially taking the piss in many cases by not wanting to do (or refusing to allow their members to do) an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. A lot of the mines in particular were unprofitable. Why would anyone in the real world continue to run an unprofitable business? I remember once a painter on a building site in London telling me mad stories about painters downing tools on building sites in the '70s because management wouldn't allow them to use small paint brushes (thereby denying them the chance to drag out a painting job as long as possible and still expect to get paid). Too much tails wagging the dog back then, it's no wonder really that Thatcher set out to destroy the unions' stranglehold.
@bernardevans111 ай бұрын
Exactly - and this bloody so called documentary ignores all this and leavesit out and is worse than the propaganda is proports to expose. I'm Irish and remember how the unions destroyed Britian in the 70's.
@nialloneill50972 ай бұрын
The mines were profitable bar a few that could easily be carried...it was the Unions they wished to crush...to do that, you imply put all the miners out of work...and others followed
@1stgrelf2 ай бұрын
Thank You for this wonderfully real Conversation.
@cliveturner3764 жыл бұрын
as a former yorkshire miner i was red pilled in 84 85
@joywilder90926 жыл бұрын
WHERE is Part 3 of this series??? I found Parts 1 & 2 with a KZfaq search, but no Part 3 comes up, even though I'd originally seen Part 4 before searching for the other Parts.
@CARLIN4737 Жыл бұрын
Great actor. seems a great guy. Defence of the realm/ Absolute british classic.
@jamesgraham42426 жыл бұрын
I was there...the Miners' Strike. All Hail The Scarlet Banner. Class politics rules.
@dodgro83422 жыл бұрын
Good for you, man.
@jamesgraham42422 жыл бұрын
@@dodgro8342 I was on the streets every week collecting money for the Ayrshire miners in Paisley. One time we were at a demo outside Beith MOD Telecomms. We had to cross the main road to get up there. There was a Police escort and a convoy of Yuill and Dodds trucks bringing scab coal from Hunterston to Ravenscraig steel works. We ran in front of them and the bastards sped up and nearly got us killed. We got the local bands to do a few fund raisers for free as well. Not to mention the funds we raised for the ANC. Happy days!
@dodgro83422 жыл бұрын
@@jamesgraham4242 very very interesting. Why do you think they shut down the coal mines? Why did they kill off that industry in England?
@jamesgraham42422 жыл бұрын
@@dodgro8342 Revenge. During the 1970's the Miners were striking and working 3 day weeks. There were power cuts all over the country. lol I've still got bags of candles up in the loft. It was lights out, tellies off and out with the Primus stove. There was an economic crisis. I think inflation went up to over 20%. So, real wages were falling. Labour had to go to the IMF for a lone. The Tories blamed the Unions claiming they were holding the country to ransom. It all led up to the so called "Winter of Discontent." Then the environmental concerns were rising...but it was really all about crushing the unions and the miners were communist led by Scargill down South and McGahey in Scotland. At the same time the communists were splitting between the tankies and the Eurocommunists. McGregor was Thatcher's hatchet man.
@dodgro83422 жыл бұрын
@@jamesgraham4242 in "Das Kapital", Karl Marx, apart from other things, proved that all capitalist crises are crises of (relative) overproduction. Think of global material production. It´s divided into three massive sectors: 1. consumer products 2. production of the means of production (machinery,tools,conveyor belts,etc etc) 3. extraction and processing of raw materials. These three sectors are interdependent. The consumer products have to be sold non-stop, there have to be no delays, no hold-ups. If there are, then "surpluses" begin to appear and pile up. And why would there be a hold-up in sales of consumer products? Because under the current mode of production, the purchasing power of the vast majority of people is confined within extremely narrow limits (why it is this way, is a different topic, but it is a fact and we can see it all around us all the time in our everyday life, most people don´t have the money to buy most things presented on the consumer market, ranging from household appliances and furniture to cars and building materials). The overproduction is relative. This means that an excess of commodities exists only in relation to demand effective in terms of money, but not at all in relation to the actual requirements of society. So anyway, "surpluses" begin to pile up, overcrowding warehouses and leading to additional expenses. But the worst of all is that the price on that product begins to collapse, since everyone is trying to sell the "surplus", this leads to a catastrophic fall in price. In this case, the only thing that the private owners of plants, factories etc that produce this or that product can do is to cut or stop production, in order to let the "surplus" products gradually dissolve. When they do that, the sector that produces raw materials which this or that plant,factory etc were consuming (in order to make this or that product; for example, to make a fridge you need steel, oil, gas, sometimes coal etc). also begins to experience hold-ups, because when dozens or hundreds of fridge factories shut down, it means less steel,oil,gas etc is needed. "Surpluses" begin to pile up in the raw materials sector of production. It´s a domino effect. And that is what happened with coal and other raw materials during the energy crisis back in the 70-80s and that is what´s happening now. Read Ostrovitianov´s "Political Economy", chapter "Economic crises" (available on the Internet). It´s a Soviet textbook from 1954.
@Johnconno2 жыл бұрын
Everything he's describing has become much, much worse.
@johnpaton621 Жыл бұрын
His comments on UK politics of the late 1970/1980s are nonsense.
@theodoreruleoflaw22776 жыл бұрын
Stage struck, God bless him…
@settingsons1979 Жыл бұрын
Great talker but factually wide of the mark in every important subject matter.
@SG-xe1mv6 жыл бұрын
Very one sided opinion on the Falklands war. Argentina invaded the islands. Islands which never once belonged to them. Proximity does not equal ownership. The military dictatorship was losing favour with the population and the invasion was typical tactic to gain public support. Britain did not start the war and had every right to respond militarily if it so wished. (Regan tried persuading Thatcher to resolve it through diplomacy). If you want to think critically start with relevant facts!
@themsmloveswar39856 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Gabriel Byrne is extremely inaccurate. The Falklands were settled by mostly Scots in the early 1800s. They were British. They were occupied by a military dictator. And Thatcher was correct to kick the military dictator. Byrne is NOT a critical thinker. Byrne IS a professional pretender. And that is is evident. He is only as good as his lines. And unfortunately, for Byrne his lines are inaccurate.
@StellaKuru6 жыл бұрын
My take on this was not so much the circumstances of the war itself as HOW the war was portrayed for the British public. That headline -- GOTCHA-- which involved the sinking of a ship and all aboard it (is that part true? Did an Argentinian battle ship get sunk, with everyone on board lost?) indicates the tone of the government and its opinion about its enemies and those who do not "tow the line." Rupert Murdoch is a blight on the world of journalism. FOX News is a malignant propaganda machine in the US. Mr. Byrne is pointing out how he learned about these issues as a young man. You can carp about details, but I find his experience instructive. Wish we'd had more critical thinkers during the 2016 election!
@siogbeagbideach2 жыл бұрын
@@themsmloveswar3985 funny thing Ireland was also planted with settlers...look at all the "troubles" that caused over the centuries. Was Thatcher correct to protect Pinochet the Chilean dictator?? A nice retirement was sorted out for him!!!! Lol wasn't there some whisky presented to said dictator who disappeared and killed thousands, Maggie"s new best mate, Pinochet!!
@nialloneill50972 ай бұрын
@@StellaKuru I also recall reading before the War...a small section in a daily on a page 7 I think it was. It said that forces have been removed from the Falklands...and it was as though the British were begging the Argies to invade...now who would want a war? A Tory party that is heading out of power...backed by the Neoliberlaists who the interviewee mentioned...doubtless including the US war machine...and with big plans for the UK...but again...as he rightly said...the country was then carried away on a wave of jingoism. I was in the pub at the time...and looked at the lads ringing out the national anthem...these were miners...who were about to receive the same treatment...I just knew intuitively...and I recall thinking how people are so easily led...not everyone of course. I had just been on a management course for the NCB...where we told that Scargill would soon be done and dusted...and at least over 80 pits were destined for foreclosure...despite most being viable. And then I heard of new faces being set up with millions of pounds of taxpayers money...but no new coal was extracted...simply to fix the accounts...and label a fit and healthy fit as decrepit. The lies in the Strike was unbelievable...it was then I realised that you cannot trust your govy, the police, none of the authorities...nor the gutter press, Despots...almost the lot of them. After all I saw in that Strike...I became a more critical analyst of life...and there is nothing better than being free within. FREEEEEDDDOOMMMM...
@MrSigmatico10 ай бұрын
The thing is though, if you dont sin then Jesus died for nothing.
@nialloneill50972 ай бұрын
Jesus did not want you to sin...love thy neighbour as thyself...
@MarkHarrison7333 ай бұрын
Byrne is just a far left nobody.
@thelastdetail111 ай бұрын
Gabriel Byrne´s critical thinking didn´t extend to the fact that The Falkland Islands and their residents were and are of British descent for over 200 years, long before Argentina as a fully formed nation existed, let alone the majority of its more recent history colonised by a largely Italian and Spanish ethnicity populace; that they wished to remain British and were invaded by a hostile foreign power. Or that the Miner´s strike was called by Arthur Scargill without a national ballot thus sidelining anyone who didn´t agree with his resons for the strike, prolonging needlessly the inevitable outcome as he didn´t have all miner´s on his side, or even legality. Or the fact that many British people also have Irish ancestry and wanted no part of the sectarian troubles in Northern Ireland, and did not support either side´s murdering violence. Nor the politicians who did little to stop it. In short, a silly aloof apologist lefty actor with no real involvement in the subjects he pontificates about. Critically challenged thinking is a better term for it.
@DanHowardMtl6 жыл бұрын
Serious question: Who cares what actors think? They memorize lines, stand on painted tape and fake emote. They don't live in reality. #notrealnews.
@dickhamilton35176 жыл бұрын
you can never learn anything if you won't listen
@gatgoggle6 жыл бұрын
Some people (Dan Howard) don't want to think critically. Even when they're shown how and the repeated need to
@DanHowardMtl6 жыл бұрын
@Geoff Whyte - Was that even a sentence? Should I also take advice from dolts who can't write proper English?
@azimovist6 жыл бұрын
Your simple minded generalities are absurd. Actors are citizens,and many,as with all groups of people,have political and philosophical positions. Often,many of them are artists and bring a heightened perspective ,such as mister Byrne does.
@themsmloveswar39856 жыл бұрын
The title is a complete misnomer. Byrne does not think critically. He just expounds in negative cliches about others, and positive declarations about himself. And he likes feeling sorry for himself. The exact opposite of moral courage. He feels that he can cover it up, by posturing leftist nonsense.
@gulligullible72426 жыл бұрын
Consider the petition to remove CNN from airports Your prognosis is very very harsh ! Peace
@fidomusic6 жыл бұрын
And replace it with Al Jazeera.
@SG-xe1mv6 жыл бұрын
Since when did critical thinking become about endorsing every anti British cliche that the Irish speak of. At least state the counter argument before summizing an opinion. 'Critical thinking = Thatcher was pure evil'...come on FFS!
@dodgro83422 жыл бұрын
wait until you get laid off and thrown out into the street or lose your pension. "Leftist nonsense" lol. You live in a fantasy land inside your head.