WHAT Made You ANGRY Today?

In general people gravitate towards the lowest common denominator as evidenced in so much of our social intercourse. So nothing about Brand or his appeal really surprises me. The fact that he clearly inspires so many says as much about them as it does him.

I didn’t think he had ANY answers!! And funnily enough that’s the difficult bit. It’s easy to criticise but very much more difficult to offer sensible, rational, viable solutions. Until he does he’s not worth a second’s glance.

The problem here is that sensible, rational, viable solutions tend to take a long time to happen, tend to be a bit wishy washy and the devil is usually in the detail. Real economic and political commentators tend to look a bit weak compared to Brand’s dayglo assault, and the agitprop crowd naturally gravitate towards the frankly strange amateur dramatic Charles-Dickens-meets-the-Yellow-Submarine foamings of the latter. Yelling stuff into a megaphone at a rally is certainly a better release than the ‘stuffy’ options.

I think that is where Brand is most damaging. As you say, he has no answers. However he is also blocking the way for those that do have answers. Plus, he plays right into the ‘class authenticity’ trip that the Guardian crowd love to play into, because he has slummy origins. The faux-wordly ‘yeah, well I built schools in Mozambique last summer, so I think I know about X’ mentality. Somehow allowing yourself to become dependant on opiates for a time makes you a more authentic authority on health issues than a health advisor. Being poorer, druggier, sex-crazed-ier etc, sounds a lot more like the collectivist and exclusionist rhetoric I thought he and his followers would be against, yet any critic of Brand is apparently hung up on those issues, not the guy himself. Besides, I think it has been rather a long time since he last felt true financial hardship… he wouldn’t be a champagne socialista would he?

If people fall for this junk then god help us all, the emperor is naked as far as I’m concerned.

I didn’t think he had ANY answers!! And funnily enough that’s the difficult bit. It’s easy to criticise but very much more difficult to offer sensible, rational, viable solutions. Until he does he’s not worth a second’s glance.

These twats;

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/russell-brand-revolution-book-panel-verdict.

“The truth is, he’s doing us a favour here. When was the last time a celebrity used their position of influence to do anything other than point us at their latest Eau de Whatever?

Brand is no day-tripper to povertyville, either. While he may have made his way into the 1%, he’s not merely speculating on life’s jagged edges; he’s lived them, so he has considerably more authority to address the polity honestly.”

****.

“Brand puts forward a logical and witty argument, asking the reader to question the systems we have inherited, and it’s only once or twice a chapter that he drops a vocabu-bomb – even my mate with an English degree couldn’t work them out without dusting off a dictionary.

The thin veil of what we were sold as democracy has been lifted and it is increasingly evident that we have inherited a system that is broken. Brand is not afraid to delve into all of the questions this raises, nor is he afraid of not having all the answers.”

****.

You would think that prior to Russell Brand coming along nobody had been aware of any criticism of our political and economic systems.

Yup – he’s certainly top dog for self publicity.

Even more unnerving, if you’re a West Ham manager; Sam Allardyce was kissed by him on Saturday.

I steered well clear of that, having heard his incoherent spoutings elsewhere but as an apologist for crumbling Labour the Tories absolutely adore him!!:D But the media are in thrall so you can expect much more of his “brand” of political bilge in the weeks to come.:D

You got that right, the guy would be of far more value to Labour if he joined the Tories, or even UKIP.

I know nothing about the book he’s promoting right now, but was amused by the literary critic on R4 yesterday who said something along the lines of “it’s only a book in that it has some pages sandwiched between two covers”

Moggy

Peoples’ gullibility about his avowed talents astonishes me. He has yet to display a talent for anything- other than self promotion, at which he is exemplary.

He just makes my blood boil – I avoid him like the plague…

He was never even funny..!!

He was never anything. He has no substantial body of work to justify his media presence. He might be patterned in the hellraising mold of Oliver Reed or Keith Moon, but at least those two had artistic merit. Russell Brand’s comedy is not good. Again, he uses a big word once in a while and goes heavy on the amateur dramatics and people think he is brilliant.

Yoof luv ‘im – innit? Yeah….

He was never even funny..!!

I steered well clear of that, having heard his incoherent spoutings elsewhere but as an apologist for crumbling Labour the Tories absolutely adore him!!:D But the media are in thrall so you can expect much more of his “brand” of political bilge in the weeks to come.:D

It is the tidal wave of thickos I’m not looking forward to. They will be suitably ripped on his suitably simplistic rhetoric and be ready to brand anybody ‘establishment’ if you do anything other than agree with their rubbish.

I had a smart idea. I should log on to Facebook and post “Russell Brand is telling it like it is. He is a hero.” Anybody that ‘likes’ the post will then be deleted and blocked.

That’s confused me. I thought Saturday only had three syllables.

It does indeed – but the middle one was being badly mispronounced – there was no sign of that ‘r’.

I steered well clear of that, having heard his incoherent spoutings elsewhere but as an apologist for crumbling Labour the Tories absolutely adore him!!:D But the media are in thrall so you can expect much more of his “brand” of political bilge in the weeks to come.:D

I made the mistake of watching Russell Brand being interviewed by Evan Davis. Much like John Lydon, brand employs that irritating tactic of shouting and generally acting out to cover up the obvious lack of intellect. Yes, Russell’s heart is probably in the right place (though years of heavy coke abuse probably hasn’t helped it much), but his whole model seems to consist of vastly simplifying a complex issue into ‘it is just common sense mate’ rhetoric, throw in some woo woo spirituality or mysticism for no clear reason, include one or two big words to impress the thickos, misunderstand complex economic models and systems, misquote a famous person, use a big word incorrectly then jump up and down, shout and speak too fast to be able to hold a civilised conversation. The guy is like David Icke reimagined as a cokehead. The sad truth is that said thickos will honestly think he, or they, will achieve some sort of real change, whereas they are only stoking his massive ego.

Me too – I have been trying to understand Mercurisis’ point….

That’s confused me. I thought Saturday only had three syllables.

Moggy

Hearing a BBC announcer tell how the next episode of the programme would be broadcast “next Satuh-day”.

My own speech will immediately identify the country where I was born, but even in my seventies I am still capable of pronouncing all the syllables of every word.

How is a parliamentary pay-rise connected to the price anybody pays for milk?

Don’t get me wrong, I think the supermarkets are using their corporate power to squeeze the dairy-farmers out of business but this is purely a commercial operation without any involvement of government bureaucracy.