A: I suppose the real biggie is free will. I find it interesting that no one really talks about it: I would say that 98 per cent of all philosophers would agree with me that essentially free will is a myth. That ought to be shocking news on the front of every newspaper.
Nobody elects to be a sociopath. The difference between us and them is one of degree. That certainly interests me. But, generally speaking, I suppose ethics is the most interesting.
You do wonder if there are enough people in the world thinking about the consequences of artificial intelligence and technology. It has been edited and condensed from two conversations.
The best of Good Weekend delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Sign up here. Please try again later. The Sydney Morning Herald. Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Nothing, compared to this. Just grow up. For one, I agree with your sentiment about the permanently outraged brigade. It seems to enliven them and give them a sense of purpose, to puff their chests in indignation over everything. The sceptre of political correctness has lynched the beating heart out of many vital things: a healthy debate.
Frank discussion. Twitter used to be a hotbed of roiling, meaty and uncensored talk, and like you, I miss those salad days, too. After a trauma — and most of the world agrees, sexual abuse would be classified as such — the brain often attempts to suppress the memory. When those thoughts and feelings are recalled, unbidden, by outside forces, it can lead to confusion, hurt, upset: in some cases, an experience of revictimisation.
This is simply how the brain works. A stunningly callous sentiment, and one I admit I was surprised to hear from someone who often wakes up to a battle-cry from their own brain. I know this from first-hand experience. I was raped when I was seven years old: just the once, by an opportunistic family friend.
My complex, beautiful, hard-working brain worked overtime to suppress and negotiate the memory, and it made for difficulties and a frankly exhausting fallout much later down the line. You may hate that. It may reek of misery. But what happened was not my fault. And the shadow of childhood rape is long and ceaseless. Along with the dozens of Facebook groups devoted to Fry - of which the "Petition to harvest Stephen Fry's seed to raise the standard of society" is perhaps the most alarming - there are a growing number that express previously unthinkable sentiments, such as: "I hate Stephen Fry - I'd like to punch his smug.
Subscription Notification. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. Please update your billing details here. Please update your billing information. My problem with Fry is I think he is a self-centered ponce who is only where he is because of his connections.
Whats he done outside of "comedy" which is also shit to deserve the title of "national treasure"? He likes to write 10 page rants about sweat shop produced electronic gadgets on his blog.
The self-indulgent, materialist twat. And then there's his supposed "intellect". Ooh he does so fucking love to slag, deride, ridicule, and otherwise shit on others he dislikes. But when HE is the object of similar dislike, it's tears, "I'm bipolar", "I was an unhappy teen", "I'm Stephen Fry so leave me alone", "Isn't it horrid how some people go on-line and be nasty".
Having read "Moab is My Washpot", I suspect that his parents simply didn't kick the young Fry in the bollocks often enough, and the result is a fucking petulant, self-absorbed, smart-arsed shitehawk adolescent aged The sad-arsed old fruit. Why do I hate the tosser, Fry? For his onanistic, smug, self-satisfied, pompous, self-promoting, oleaginous, smarmy, faux-humble, self-aggrandising omnipresence.
And that's just for starters. Also for his misplaced belief that anyone gives a toss about his opinions on art, music, technology, politics or the price of fish. I would be so, so pleased if he got his ugly face stuck up his own arse and suffocated. I would laugh until my jaw ached and the fluff fell out of my navel. And that's not all.
I hate him for the fact that he's hoodwinked great swathes of the British public into believing he's witty, erudite and generally a good thing. So happy to have stumbled on this, I found your blog while googling Stephen Fry, arsehole Lucky for me google realised I was not after a picture of said rectum, merely expressing my opinion of the smug tosser, who appears to be everywhere these days. It does my heart good to realise that many other people detest the "National treasure" as much as I do.
Dislike him strongly. Horrible, sickly, immoral man who loves jetting off to Third World countries and telling them how superior he is. The guy is a joke. He's just loved by the decadent British public who will be extinct in a few years. Steven Fry is one of a type, the BBC employs him because he has presence in the same way that some of their other 'stars' have presence, I must admit I'm thinking now with tongue in cheek of Jeremy Clarkson.
In short they are desperate. Who else would stand up and make a Jack Ass of themselves like these two do. Few people bother with the television these days, although I suppose it is watched in hospital and prison a fair bit,but the point is, it no longer sets that pace other than for the bottom end market or the pseudo intellectual.
Therefore it follows that the people engaged to entertain these groups will be rather sad. Googled "stephen fry irritating" Found this blog. Glad I am not the only one who is sick to death of him.
Seems like he is on every second TV show here in Australia. Documentaries are all about him, not the subject. He is really getting on my nerves. Rant over. Ha ha. A somewhat belated late night edition to the small not-completely-smitten-with-Stephen-Fry revolution. Actually, I imagine he's a lovely human being and undoubtedly talented but he is a bit annoying.
Was just about to listen to a re-run of "Fry's English Delight" which was "quite interesting", but then I recalled his eruditious, polymathic and belletristic verbosity and found myself googling "Stephen Fry is annoying" and found myself in present company. The Radio 4, middle England audiences love a tweeded pseudo-intellectual.
Now descended into being nothing more than a quiz-show host. Donald Clark. Thank you. I can't understand how he is so well-regarded either. What irritates me is his frequently referencing 'things which happened to friends' as personal anecdotes which are simply urban myth. One which stands out is the 'Tokyo-dept-store with a Santa-being-crucified display. But this Santa-being-crucified dates from and comes back again and again.
But for 'the national treasure' it's something which 'recently' happened to a friend of his.
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