I am sure most people concerned with the downward spiral of what used to be our civilization have heard of and heard Russel Brand. Following criticism and comments after his interview on BBC with Jeremy Paxman, he has written a very interesting article published in the Guardian today.
Among other things he says: we are living in a time of huge economic disparity and confronting ecological disaster. This disparity has always been, in cultures since expired, a warning sign of end of days. In Rome, Egypt and Easter Island the incubated ruling elites, who had forgotten that we are one interconnected people, destroyed their societies by not sharing. That is what’s happening now, regardless of what you think..
This is a young man full of fire, addressing us in a direct, from the heart way in everyday language and feeling. Saying things we all know are true but which many of us fear to confront or cannot confront owing to the brainwashing we are daily subjected to and the toxic Thatcher mantra of TINA. Others because they are still hanging onto morsels of power and privilege which the do not realise are also up for grabs.
For those of you who may have missed it, this is the interview that had made waves:
Oh and as a perfect example of what Russel Brand is ranting about we have the Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras who in the process of depriving the middle and weaker sections of society of all they ever had, to satisfy the bankers as represented by the troika had the gall to tell us that
We can’t give up now! We have climbed the Kilimanjaro and are only a few meters away from the top!
As a reader of this blog, Chrys, has pointed out, he omitted to say we are a few meters from the top and once we get there it will be a terrible precipitated fall down all the way into the abyss thereafter.