Werner Herzog wants to tell you about this dream he had
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Your support makes all the difference.Acclaimed filmmaker, explorer of the human condition and Pokemon Go commentator Werner Herzog stopped into Marc Maron's WTF Podcast this week, and shared the most Werner Herzog dream imaginable.
The sonorous German was discussing evil (obviously) with Maron, when he suddenly side-stepped:
"Sorry, I would like to tell you a dream. I hardly ever dream. I dream maybe once in a year."
Intrigued, as anyone would be, Maron indulged him.
"I was running in a street in Mexico, somehow pursued by God knows what," Herzog recalled.
"And, at an intersection, I bump into a donkey that has some sort of load packed on it and I'm knocked down.
"A priest picks me up and shakes me and screams at me: 'Do you believe in the forces of evil? Do you renounce Satan himself?'
"And somehow, perplexed as I was, I said 'I do not believe in the Devil, I only believe in stupidity.'
"That was what I dreamt," he concluded.
Now my dreams get pretty dark, but I have to confess to being disappointed they rarely involve face-offs with religious figures in deserted Mexican environments.
Herzog and Maron discussed stupidity and evil not being mutually exclusive in relation to the former's new documentary on the internet, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World.
It's a typically dark look at our hyperconnectivity, but Herzog doesn't see the internet as intrinsically bad, it's how humans use it.
"The internet is not good or evil, nor is electricity, it does not have qualities beyond the technical qualities," he said.
"Although, if we strap you onto an electric chair and execute you you better first recalibrate your opinion of humans."
You can listen to the podcast in full here.
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