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Originally Posted by Zee
I mean this in the best possible way, but I just don't have the energy to read and respond to your post properly 
He doesn't really give any actual answers to any of Paxman's questions though. He says that he thinks the system is broken. He makes a good point that the system keeps the oppressed oppressed and the elites elitist. Paxman wanted to know what Brand thought should be done about it, and he responded by repeating himself for 10 minutes, he didn't actually answer the question. I wasn't expecting a 5 point plan with diagrams and flip charts, but a simple overview of what he would do if he was able to reconstruct the political system in the country would have sufficed. I'm sure everyone reading this thread could give suggestions on what they would do if they could fix all the problems they see with the country (e.g. change the benefits system, be more environmentally friendly, free sex for everybody!!!... etc) but Brand went round in circles because he was being backed into a corner for once.
I don't take any issue with him taking an interest in politics, I'd much rather our celebrities, the people that so many of us look up to, were engaging, witty, interesting individuals like Russell Brand, I just wish he had more to say on the matter, that's all. I've seen this be posted across social media with people praising him for his words, but he doesn't even say all that much about anything, people are, as usual, taken in by his way with words rather than the meaning of his words. That's all.
The problem with wanting a revolution is that there needs to be an end goal. That's why there hasn't been one (yet) - people don't like the system as it is but nobody has any better, practical suggestions that aren't "yeah, **** the Tories!" or tutting about how terrible they are. People en masse don't know what they want, they just know what they don't want, and that's why there is no revolution in this country (yet). |
Brand repeated himself out of necessity as I see it. It was Paxman more or less asking the same infantile "well what are you going to do about it?" questions over and over - wrapped up in this smug mirth about having to interview The Sun's 'Shagger Of The Year' about the political spectrum - that pushed Russell to have to eschew his values and suggestions again and again and again
ad nauseam.
How do you know people were taken in by the color of his vocabulary and not by the contents of it? I'm sure there were a few fans who watched the video essentially because he is sexy and a bit funny but I imagine the vast majority of people the interview struck a chord with - myself included - had absolutely no trouble both understanding and empathizing with his pretty obvious, clearly spoken suggestions on how to improve the sociopolitical paradigm.
The end goal to Brand's revolution is clear. A resource based ...