adam: george orwell was fighting in catalonia and aragorn.alonia, especially is a part of spain that, in recent years, they have a strong separatist movement. they speak in different languages. catalan. foughtwho have lived and there get very attached to it, as george orwell was. brian: you can watch when they get to the picture of some of the fighters. george orwell sticks out because of his height. [video clip] >> something overwhelming. it was the first time that i had ever been to town. practically every building had been seized by the workers. draped with red flags. or with the flag of the red and black anarchists. every wall was draped with a hammer and sickle and the initials of the revolutionary party. every shop and cafe -- everyone called everyone else "comrades." all of this was queer and moving. there is much i do not understand. in some ways, i did not even like it. but i recognized it immediately as a state of affairs we were fighting for. [end video clip] brian: obviously the man at the back is talking about comrades and a hamm

>> george orwell was fighting in catalonia and aragorn. especially is a part of spain that, in recent years, they have a strong separatist movement. they speak in different languages. catalan. you can watch when they get to the picture of some of the fighters. torch orwell sticks out because of his height. something overwhelming. it was the first time that i had ever been to town. practically every building had been seized by the workers. drape with red flags. every wall was built with a hammer and sickle and the initials of the revolutionary party. every shop and cafe had an excursion saying -- and one called everyone else comrades. this is moving. there is much i do not understand. in some ways, i did not even like it. immediatelyized it the state of affairs we were fighting for. backviously the men at the is talking about comrades and a hammer and sickle. you talk about a lot of americans who consider themselves communists at the time. both are interest? interests?e their >> first on to talk about the revolution in both alone a -- barce

adam: george orwell was fighting in catalonia and aragorn. catalonia, especially is a part f spain that, in recent years, they have a strong separatist movement. they speak in different languages. catalan. people who have lived and fought there get very attached to it, as george orwell was. brian: you can watch when they get to the picture of some of he fighters. george orwell sticks out because of his height. >> something overwhelming. it was the first time that i had ever been to town. practically every building had een seized by the workers. draped with red flags. or with the flag of the red and black anarchists. every wall was draped with a hammer and sickle and the initials of the revolutionary party. every shop and cafe -- had an endescription saying it had been collectivized. everyone called everyone else "comrades." all of this was queer and moving. there is much i do not understand. in some ways, i did not even like it. but i recognized it immediately as a state of affairs we were ighting for. brian: obviously the man at the back is

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one of the first books i read was george orwell animal farm.parents tell you. but you contrast that with reality. i worked on radio. i worked on journalism. in your bike found like inspiration to continue with this idea. john: do you get a lot of hostile pushback? >> every country i go too all the control the government has they start insulting you on the internet, facebook and twitter. before this video came out, i was not known in latin america. the proposal was let the populism using technology, facebook, twitter to say the reality about what's going on. let's film how the supermarkets are and people are dying. john: you equate populism with socialism. >> yes. it's a way of psychological manipulations specially for people who don't have a good education and have immediate needs. you satisfy those needs by giving food or medicines as long as there is money. but when you start nationalizing and expropriating you finish with the sources of productivity in our country, then the money is running out. john: thank you gloria alvarez. i wish you luc

writers areite george orwell and cs lewis. lewis wrote for radio so it had to be heard. the road with great clarity. charlie rose: so the edward romero. david brooks: that's true. but there is still artistry involved. orwell was a genius at the first sentence. he wrote it during the blitz of london. headote high above my highly civilized human beings are trying to kill me. and he is wondering why the germans bombing my city. it is a good first sentence that just takes you right in. cs lewis, he wrote four loves. about christianity. you can be christian or not christian. the definition of pride. the definition of sin. the definition of soul. a core piece of yourself with every decision you make you change that core piece of yourself to make it even holier or more degraded. you can take that concept and you don't have to believe in god or not. he uses secular language describe it. d parts of our moral architecture. it is just so commonsensical. of any faith it is super useful. he definitely became a christian. it took him a long time to get there. he wrote the christianity

george orwell's "1984" novel was a genius because it said, the government controls language.ate control. the 64 civil rights act bans discrimination on the basis of sex. the administration is saying sex is a synonym for gender identity. not true. the party of science ought to know that sex is a matter of chromoso chromosomes. and those advocating for transgender rights have been saying for years that indeed it is a matter of sexual gender identity that is not the same as sex. so what is sinister here is the president saying the language of the law simply doesn't mean what it says. >> amy, you can't get an issue that will polarize people much more than this. the obama white house and their supporters are saying that this is the extension of a basic civil right, what was skeptics, opponents are saying you've got federal overreach. washington going into private schools and say this somehow your kid is going to have to live. >> what's interesting is when we had the debate, earlier, i guess this it was this week, over north caroli north carolina and you saw a lot of republicans sh

another key, i saw a stephen king thing online and this is a lesson of my two favorite writers george orwell and c.s. lewis is never use a big word when a small word will do. both orwell and lewis, the greatest stylists of our age, they wrote for radio and it had to be heard so they wrote with great carty. >> rose: so did edward murrow. yes. orwell was a genius at the first sentence. the essay the lion and the unicorn about england, he writes it in the blitz when he was being bombed in world war, two he said high above my head highly civilized people are trying to kill me. why are they bombing me because i'm english and they're german. >> rose: did c.s. lewis have an influence on you? >> yeah, he wrote "the four lovelies" which is a book i highly recommended. there are words you can be christian or not christian. the definition of pride, the definition of sin -- or the definition of soul. the idea there is a core piece of yourself that with every decision you make, you change that core piece of yourself into something more holy or more degraded. you can take that concept and don't have to be

i say, george orwell, your time has come and gone. i expect a laugh. dead silence.now they look at me. and i am with the couple, the three of us, at the hell of calvary of good friday. and i say, my god, where is the human voice? and just then, little baby, maybe about a year old, and i say, sir or madam, to the baby, what is your opinion of the human species? what does a baby due? the baby starts giggling. i say, thank god! the sound of the human voice. any code that was studs terkel. we both worship him. >> yes, we do. someone once wise said something like, i believe that media has the potential to be the greatest force for good that the world has ever seen. i think that was you. and that is something that studs believed and that i believe and i know something that you believe. amy: i believe the media can be the greatest force for peace on earth because it provides a forum for people to hear each other him and that is the beginning of understanding and understanding is the beginning of peace. >> you got it. we're not listening to each other. we don't listen to ea

ping it was george orwell said it is connect with the decay of language does it mean that decline of poetry is somehow responsible for the mess that we're in? >> i don't think you can blame that on poetry alone. [laughter] but i mean -- we're in a election year and it doesn't matter who is running. you hear -- you always hear language misused in election year and misused in public speech but you doapght have to go to politics but you can go to marketing, you can go to education, any kind of institution -- every institution has a way of saying things which are not entirely true. it's politics of that institution. what i believe, i mean, poetry like any art can be misused by i think at base of a poet's responsibility is to use language truthfully and powerfully to express that person's vision of reality powerfully. if you think of the society we are in at the moment to be able for an individual to register his or her individual experience and in a responsible way, truthfully as astonishing cultural power because what we're mostly hearing is corporate language. political language. a gro