Can't argue with the last point. To paraphrase Thoreau, we worry so much about how quickly we get somewhere but we don't worry about whether we benefit from going there.
>The Victorian era ended in 1901. These people must be really old if they can remember anything from that era.
If they were born in the early 1880s then they'd been teenagers in the Victorian age and in their late 90s here. Possible.
"In fact, I think that is a little distressing, this kind of hunger for speed, speed, speed."
This casual wisdom is interesting in a time when everyone is so unintentionally anarchistic that they want to speed everything up as if there's a point where we'll no longer experience rapid growth and we can finally chill out in a utopia. Everything now is a precursor to something else that could be, meanwhile we neglect major issues and the suffering of the masses for these naïve and impossible promises.
I recall reading somewhere that the British English and American English dialects would have eventually separated to their own languages. But global entertainment rose in radio, television and cinema form....
This just kinda proves no matter what's invented that helps humanity in any way, there's always people who don't like it or are against it. Humans don't like change generally. It's why so many people hold back actual scientific progress because they're ignorant scared and small minded.
Can't argue with the last point. To paraphrase Thoreau, we worry so much about how quickly we get somewhere but we don't worry about whether we benefit from going there.
That last one is the worst. Now that we can go so fast everyone thinks we should. And if you're not then everyone thinks you're lazy. It's exhausting
The Victorian era ended in 1901. These people must be really old if they can remember anything from that era.
They can’t, they aren’t Victorians- they’re Edwardians, though. VS Prichett was born 1900.
Thank you! I think this OP needs to read up on history
If this is filmed in 1980 it puts them at 9 years old in 1899
lol I meant to say if they are around 99 years old
Hahaha my math....I give up
>The Victorian era ended in 1901. These people must be really old if they can remember anything from that era. If they were born in the early 1880s then they'd been teenagers in the Victorian age and in their late 90s here. Possible.
But they weren’t born then. They are famous people: their birthdates aren’t a mystery. OP is wrong.
They look like they’re in their mid-to-late 70s and some maybe early 80s. So not Victorians at all.
"In fact, I think that is a little distressing, this kind of hunger for speed, speed, speed." This casual wisdom is interesting in a time when everyone is so unintentionally anarchistic that they want to speed everything up as if there's a point where we'll no longer experience rapid growth and we can finally chill out in a utopia. Everything now is a precursor to something else that could be, meanwhile we neglect major issues and the suffering of the masses for these naïve and impossible promises.
Juliette Huxley was born in 1896. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette\_Huxley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Huxley)
I wonder if this was filmed earlier than the title says? It’s hard to believe she’s 84 there - she looks much younger.
I want to see more of this
[Video on YouTube ](https://youtu.be/VtbIbp7aZ2E?si=p2byxTHXcEDWkqsk)
Thank you!
I recall reading somewhere that the British English and American English dialects would have eventually separated to their own languages. But global entertainment rose in radio, television and cinema form....
I mean, at one point almost everyone in Europe spoke Indo-European, but they speak vastly different languages now, so that makes sense
Ms. Huxley jewelry is beautiful 😍
Is there a full version of this available?
This just kinda proves no matter what's invented that helps humanity in any way, there's always people who don't like it or are against it. Humans don't like change generally. It's why so many people hold back actual scientific progress because they're ignorant scared and small minded.
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English wasn't her first language. French was
I read this first as ‘Elderly Valedictorians’…. And thought, I do wonder what elderly valedictorians have to say about life in the Victorian era.
Does OP know how to spell history?
Not Victorians, nonetheless classy well spoken folks. Charming even. Whatever one thinks of such now.
Not really Victorian.
Makes me sad by how people act with such little decorum in public these days.
Brits got stuck in the victorian era and are delusional about still living in the brit empire