During the last 5 years Brand has fallen gradually into a QAnon-esque rabbit hole, and all this new-age-spirituality stuff has been the gateway.
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Brand has always been happy to be a cultural ambassador for whatever will attract him the most fans and make him the most money.
His protestations here are only aimed at his gleamy eyed fans, and so that he can hear voices of agreement to soothe him. I find the news treating it as though it's aimed at a broader audience or indicative of anything evedential to be a bit dishonest. "Man continues to play fiddle to fiddle lovers", wow, someone get these guys a Pullitzer.
David Pakman made a good video about Brand, that also came up to my mind. But yeah, Brand is a grifter.
https://odysee.com/@davidpakman:7/what-happened-to-russell-brand:1
I followed Brand’s turn during COVID, and his YouTube methodology felt like a calculated attempt at a digital personality cult of sorts. Between language he used, the constant reinforcement of revelatory in-group thinking, the leader-as-peer-but-really-leader self-characterizations, the topics and tropes conveniently serving his professional career, it all seemed to be a deliberate construction of an online personality cult to harness COVID disaffection, general malaise, and conspiracy thinking.
One interesting thing about Brand today is that he’s not as quick and exuberant as he once was, and so you can much more easily see the scaffolding and calculation. He’s now repellent instead of rakish.
Good stuff and thank you, I'll definitely give this a watch.
I was in my late teens and early 20s when Brand was selling my age group a bohemian lifestyle. I'm not the type to idolize, but a lot of what he said did resonate with me in a "Mom: we have Bill Hicks at home" sort of way.
I remember Charlie Brooker criticizing him for prancing around the student loan protests in the early 2010s and started to lose respect for him from there on.
It's been difficult to watch his gradual (and recently, expedient) decline since those early days, as he's a genuinely witty and charismatic person who has frequently said quite touching and soul-bearing things. All of that said, none of this news surprises me, in fact, it felt inevitable.
New age spirituality is basically just narcissism and psychopathy.
It's funny too when people use it as a one up or to feel like they have the upper hand. It's like seeing a cracked out person talking to themselves and twitching.
He's bipolar and has legit mental illness; the same as Musk. Both of them would do less harm to society if they were on effective meds.
Source?
Yeah, I take issue with your point. Mental illness doesn't make a person dangerous to society automatically. Mental illness makes a person much more likely to be a victim of abuse rather than the perpetrator.
One of those actors that I always had a feeling was a creep
I love how he’s claiming that he’s being silenced yet he hasn’t said anything worth listening to since he’s because a rich elite himself.
Who the fuck is silencing him? He was on all the UK shows a few years ago and eventually it was tanking the ratings.
Nobody is stopping him from saying whatever he wants. I just don't care about his weird ramblings. If he's on TV I am not watching.
Not being given a soapbox does not equate to being silenced.
"Comedian", right... not a conspiracy theorist, grifter and a total fucking cunt
He's so famous that the third bullet point is being married to another famous person.
Didn't Russell brand go fully anti-vax
Inside you... 🎶🎵
No one cares.
You'd be surprised how many people care about things like sexual assault victims or simply celeb gossip. Either category, there's lots of people who care.
About Russel Brand.