It's mind porn, that's what it is.
It's not like Russell Brand is saying anything that millions of people around the world haven't been saying, many of us for years. It's not even like he's saying anything new and enlightening. Everything he says tons of us have already been thinking ourselves.
It's that what he is saying is about a future that comparatively speaking is fresh and wonderful, and even talking about it on the BBC feels so radical because they pretend for so long that nothing needs to change, and what he says about the paradigm-change is absolutely necessary, and he's fucking funny along with it so that it doesn't matter how many times you hear it, it always renews your inner vigour even if you're in the midst of outer fatigue.
It inspires you anew, keeps you going on in this fucked-up paradigm we're still stuck in, where a very small minority of unbelievably powerful people are prepared to fuck the entire world for their own insane benefit. It's like the freedom that whallops in on a kid who has been living in the house of a madman all his life, and who for the first time really trusts his own sanity, and a chink of light floods in. Every time anyone else talks about this stuff, that chink of light comes in all over again, heartens and enheartens.
Hell, it's not even like we're envisioning a world where there wouldn't still be bloody horrible things happening sometimes, and people won't still be suffering and dying. We're not talking about living in a utopia of no suffering. We're talking about living in balance, where suffering is not perpetuated by the few onto the many for the benefits only of the few.
Those running this ship have spent and will go on spending millions trying to convince the majority of the world that what is vision and freedom and sanity is utopian.
But it's not. It's just vision and freedom and sanity for everybody, instead of a paradigm of smoke and mirrors serving the few.
Happy weekend, everybody.
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That's the first time I've actually seen that interview, Sue. Dat man he speak truth:)
ReplyDeleteHeya, Harry! Do you reckon that when people hear the word "revolution" they get scared off? That they envisage people who have been pushed beyond sanity, with guns, shooting stuff up?
ReplyDeleteI remember once commenting on someone's Facebook page saying, "Bring on the revolution!" And then someone else said, "Are you prepared for the blood that will accompany it?"
But I don't necessarily think the revolution has to be a bloody one. Not if it's a revolution of the heart it doesn't. Of course, that might mean that blood comes from the other end of things, but I guess that's another story again, isn't it.
We gotta do what's right, and what sings, right? :)
Oh yes, Sue. True revolution starts like the butterfly's wing flap, building to a hurricane. It is irresistible. Let's do what works, instead of the strange mind-stuff that goes on generally:) And I use FB, but I don't let it use me...
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