This is 1 of the most important lectures ever. It should be required listening. As a matter of fact, Burroughs should be required reading.

The “What’s the point of your lecture?” guy lives on in infamy as a rude creep. When you are allowed to listen to a living legend lecture, you sit quietly and listen.

"You can't tell anyone anything that they don't already know."

"i can't summarize and talk at the same time" --- GENIUS

The people in the audience are the same people who debate why Captain Picard is still bald in the 24th century.

This audience is funny. They feel intellectually threatened. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for sharing. William....He created me.

I saw him live, and a guy I actually knew shouted out "What's the matter, William, did your trust fund run out?" Well, his trust fund of fifty dollars a month until he turned fifty had indeed run out, decades ago. WSB paused briefly and then started reading again.

its a fucking trip to hear this guy say things that would be later expressed by chomsky, hedges, mate ....this guy was pretty fucking sharp

Burroughs was way ahead of his time,I feel like his thought process would of been more appreciated today more so then what he was portrayed for most of his career

16:55 "It'd be about as easy to communicate with aliens as it is with anyone." Like, right here, right now.

I have no doubt if Burroughs were still alive he’d have a different view on nuclear power. He was pretty capable of changing his mind with new evidence.

I feel his pain,surrounded by idiots. How the hell did he get thru this. I would have to be stoned too to deal with those fools.

3:12 Alamogordo means "fat poplar", that is a big poplar tree... That's what the atom bomb looked like, by the way...

My God, some of the questions these people ask...

Some of these students, especially in the beginning are concerned pricks. Thank you for this upload!

Its always slightly annoying when certain audience members ,don't ask questions and instead,embark on a "no,listen to me as i go on and on without a question".

"Ahhh, yesss...I was there when it was created"

still love his work!

What pompous a-holes and such disrespect for Mr. Burroughs, in his very late years, deep thinker and part of beat generation who lived through things no one can imagine unless they were there too

One of the VERY few competent thinkers of that generation/culture, despite falling out of fashion to the point of near invisibility presently; retroactively (Oct. 2020), if there was one man who 'saw it coming', it was Burroughs, evidenced here and elsewhere, and his critical essays in particular, arguably, more relevant to our immediate socio-economic, political, institutional and/or cultural conditions/circumstances here in Fascist America and the West, generally, than when he wrote them. Also, to that insufferable asshole's correction towards the mid-point of the forum regarding opiates and endorphins, the 'problem' is phonetic, to the extent NOT projected by the asshole himself; if you listen closely, Burroughs is saying endorphins, but with a different phonetic emphasis/placement: "ender-fins" is what Burroughs said, not what that would-be academic prick thought he HEARD: endocrines. -Small wonder Burroughs' aversion to crowds and public forums.

DISMANTLING STATE, ABOLISHING MONEY ECONOMY,＆DESTROYING FIREARMS ARE ESSENTIAL.

The stupidity of most the crowd is astonishing. It's obvious how people like Burroughs and others from his era became legends. Just being slightly grounded is a huge difference. Even Bukwoski seems smarter than most of the crowd, he didn't take crap and didn't have some of these crazy mystical ideologies. The having four bodies person was so adamant that it was the truth. That sounded dumber than anything I have ever heard. And it's 2021, we have all heard some really ignorant things in this era.

Alamo is Spanish for Poplar [kind of tree]

Does anybody know of other video where he’s taking questions like this ?

tic tac toe, the finger is slow, the mind moves fast like the crack of a whip.

7:10 information on old bombs being stored in a hollow mountain in Santa Fe. Discussion about how long bombs remain explosive

Another way to know if you are in a conscious dream is to look at a clock face.if you cannot tell the time because the hands keep shifting,you know for sure you are in a dream. Then you can begin to try and turn it into a Lucid dream (another more properly named conscious dream). It may not always work, but about half the time it does.if you feel the Lucid dream slipping away, spin your body in a counterclockwise motion. This will will drawl you deeper back into the Lucid dream.

The 1st bomb was dropped on Japan.... a massive part was because of the mistranslation of the message that was sent from Japan. Saddest thing ive watched was "White light, Black rain" Very very sad documentary..about the survivors and people whom were there. Japanese culture is very strong! They don't show emotion much... that piece... breaks down all u kno/knew

Really good artwork, and some really STUPID lines of questioning from self-satisfied audience members. -Whatever.

The entire "Cold War" was unnecessary. Henry A Wallace gave America an alternative approach to the Soviet Union. The Cold War was little more than a enormous boondoggle for the military industrial complex. This should be obvious to all after the fall of the Soviet Union when the Cold War military monster hardly stood down at all. Washington just picked new "threats". In fact, just after turn of the century the military cost to US taxpayers is as much as the average cost during the Cold War (source: Wm D Hartung) .

I wish I could have seen the audience

Wasn't just Teller. A full half of that collection of the most brilliant human beings then on the planet were convinced that the first full atom bomb test would indeed cause a chain reaction involving all the atoms around the detonation, like the atoms in the air for example, and keep.right on going completely destroying the entire universe in nuclear fires. Can you actually believe they went ahead and went through with the test anyway? Still detonating the gadget with the risk of total complete destruction hanging over everyone's heads?? Amazing!!!

I bet all these audience members thought they were too hard core to be offended by Burroughs. He got them all with one word in passing that he didn’t give any thought to.

1:14:17. Ah the dangers of technological dependence. You can almost see it seeding here. Funny how in this discussion it was as harmless as the invention of a more effective microphone to detect sub vocal speech. Surfing technology for answers to legitimate lengths only for such products to get distorted and reapplied in manipulative and usually detrimental ways. Usually such are products immediately repurposed or eventually become so, somewhere down the line at least.

The “decision “ is education

"Alama" translates from the Spanish as "warning" or "alarm." No idea what a "fat alarm" might be, though.

Amazing how much more intelligent the population spoke back then.

Alama means "Alarm"

I am impressed by the genuine and earnest stupidity of the audience; it blends with the rude creepiness of the man demanding "evidence" from Bill. Swine dominate our society- Burroughs knew this fact and he loathed it.

Is he reading a story he wrote?

Fuckin A, this is amazing

HA! Im only 13:44 though it, Burroughs has a manner of politely saying "FOOK-U!" w/o appearing to even do so, nor the recipient of such unlimited range weaponry even being AWARE!...HA!-(One of the snarky ones sounded alot like GINSBERG;)- Thats MAGICK! By the angle/inflection/gist of the early questions & Audience LAUGHTER-(At Him)-, it sounds like Burroughs was/is dealing with some pre-posited plants/Organised Harassment GangStalker agents not really well occulted within the audience?

Con fer this, con fer dat, conference confluence yes, fluently in and of studies of soul fractioning breech void frayed ends too and of ocourset the meanz...

Painful, the audience were absolute wankers.

Why does everyone in the audience think they need to argue a point or topic he speaks on ? Sometimes a point is a point or a thought is a thought and it needs no argument or rebut . The audience seems to want to argue with him , some in a way that they seem to not like him . A few of the people that ask a question in a way that they clearly do not like him and they want to argue with him and say they want to argue but cant . You just made that statement . Why do you need to argue with someone ? And when unable why do you feel its the other persons fault ? You are the fan him he is not a fan of you .

Just out of curiosity I did a little translating. Ol' Bill was correct in that if the name is broken up, "alma" does mean "soul" and "gordo" means "fat," however it takes more than just translation to understand what a "fat soul" might be. Perhaps it suggests overeating in the afterlife; I have nothing else to posit. Now, neither "alama" or "Alamagordo" have a cognate in English, which suggests that either the name is simply that, a name with no intrinsic meaning. That is definitely not satisfying and I would rather believe that it has or had some meaning in the vernacular or in slang. Now, regardless of what I want, that damn word is going to buzz around in my head, distracting my thinking, for the rest of the day.

1:01:46 - "They're pretty stupid, anyway." The young are old now.

I can’t help but think Bill B would feel comfortable in 2022.

20:39.. I dreamed my face was black in the mirror...

Alamar = to muddle; soil Big fat muddle?

I know that I really know nothing.

22:40 .. lol .. no one told him how to speak.

3:29 alemán =‘s German

Poor Burroughs.

I'm glad people are challenging him. Burroughs is great, love his work, but he tends to make these stentorian statements that don't allow for argument. So no, I don't think the audience are stupid or wankers, they're just not swallowing his proclamations. He sounds lost at times, reverting to his talking points. It's very pertinent to ask for evidence. Burroughs is used to wide-eyed fans taking everything he says as genius. He had plenty of genius things to say, but he was also prone to spewing a lot of pseudo-science. I'm a great admirer of Burroughs, but he can also be a bit of a crank. The bit about seeing one's hands in dreams, however, is spot on. I learned the technique from a Gurdjeffian. 1st night I tried, nada. 2nd night, yeah, I was trapped in a concrete maze, looked at my hands, and opened a window and escaped. Seeing one's hands in a dream does help control dreams....in my experience. But it's not from Castenada, it's from Gurdjieff. Try it. Concentrate on yr hands as you fall asleep. It can yield results.... All in all, quite fun. I don't think the audience, for the most part, sux. Except the obviously hostile guy who nitpicks his pronunciation of endorphins. He didn't say "endocrines" you ass hat!

Please define your art for me because my mind only likes tightly gift wrapped factoids that are easy to digest. Creativity on your scale looks like chaos to me. Simpleton.

People talking about disarmament as if it is a defacto good thing. Nuclear arms are very scary, that includes world leaders. World leaders tend to be people who live very good lives and are not that inclined to blow those lives to hell. When this talk was made they didn't have the last 35 years of our history, their future, to see that things are overall much more peaceful today than they were when this talk was given. Major powers don't want to get into shooting wars when the end result may be the annihilation of their way of life. They may not give two good fucks about the Earth or humanity but they care about their Olympic pools, their limos, their call girls, etc., and so far have shown a great unwillingness to do anything that might take all that away. The time for disarmament is when things get tough and world leaders no longer have cushy lives. That's when someone might just say "fuck it."

I met him twice

Most of these questions are just so stupid. They are unrelated lol. I bet Burroughs wishes he never brought up the atomic subject. I can only imagine what's going on in his head lol.

The only way to solve the Junk Problem is Murder but you need a system to legalize Murder