Werner Herzog
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545 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Werner Herzog’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Of course, it started earlier in the 19th century, but basically a phenomenon of the 20th century.
I think it is not good if you...
illuminate all the dark recesses of the human soul.
It's good that we can forget and that we forget traumas.
We do not have to unearth them and articulate them in endless sessions with a psychiatrist.
And the 20th century is full of very, very deep mistakes.
Psychoanalysis is only one.
monstrous mistakes of this century.
I do believe that the 20th century in its entirety was a mistake.
The entire 20th century?
The entire, yes.
Yes.
And I have good reasons to argue.
Let's hear some.
I would speak of the demise of social utopias.
It begins with communism.
It had its demise, and of course fascism and the barbarism of the Nazis, which has been unprecedented, postulating a master race dominating the planet.
So this social utopia, thanks God, has come to an ignominious end.
Atomic bomb, for example, and maybe the most significant of all that,
In the 20th century, the population of the world grew from one and a half billion roughly to six billion.
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