The UK Just Reached It's Tipping Point...

Russell Brand
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From America, we're watching from afar, watching UK collapse.
Are most people over in UK on board with what's going on?
Or, I mean, is there people fighting back to be like, hey, we don't want this?
People are fighting back, but because the culture is so fractured, the fight back
is fragmented because there's been years of sort of embedding cultural differences.
And because even the level of cohesion that would come if there was a meaningful
trade union movement, once industries got moved out of the UK to, you know, say,
India or subcontinent or whatever, that cohesion that existed because everyone
was members of sort of like coal mining unions or truck driver unions or whatever
unions were dominant, that's gone.
And now the UK, because of mass migration, there's a lot of disparity there.
There's a lot of disparity and conflict around migration and in my country, Islam.
It seems to me that there's a lot of cynicism, scepticism, doubt in the UK about
what's happening, but there's what they've done is they've created the good
preconditions by making the population very disparate, cynical of one another.
The Occupy movement was one of the early movements that came out of online
communication. So around 2008, people were protesting in the post financial collapse
era, protesting against the corruption of financial institutions and banks that
seemingly deliberately brought about the collapse of the economy so they could
benefit from it. The Occupy movement was cross-cultural, like right wing people
were in it, left wing people were in it, anyone was in it.
Dave Smith observed that that was the point that woke-ism and identity politics
really got promoted.
Now, that idea has been in the culture for a while.
It used to be called political correctness.
And there is definitely, obviously, an argument for ensuring that minority
groups or vulnerable communities, or call them what you will, are not subject to
hateful speech from the dominant population.
But that idea has clearly gone wrong because people don't know how to assess a
country like Japan, where people generally want a stable population, or a
country like Ireland, which isn't a former colonial power that's got really
strong views on migration and big problems with migration.
So it's all really, really falling apart.
And in my country, yeah, you can tell there's a right wing kind of resistance
movement built around Tommy Robinson.
He's very focused on Islam.
Then there's people that are sort of into conspiracy and stuff that will be into
David Icke. Then there's a kind of a post-COVID movement where there are
political figures that are like, wait, we were lied to in COVID.
Shit, man.
Them vaccines didn't work.
The lockdowns were a lie.
Our politicians were partying throughout that.
Why are they still not revealing the number of vaccine-related deaths?
You know, a lot of information is getting sat on.
So there is this latent, nascent resistance, but it's not organised.
And it's difficult for it to be organised in a country that's so disparate.
And I would think, and I believe, in fact, that that points to the solution.
When the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan said the medium is the message, he
meant in that time, well, it's mass media, it's television, the message is the
medium. Whatever you watch it on, that's the message.
And in those days, a few people could control all print media, a few people could
control all broadcast television.
It was a very cohesive, tight group you could control, other than like renegade
journalists here or there with a Watergate or an Iran-Contra or whatever, you could
control information.
Now, everyone's a journalist, everyone is Babylon, like it's the Tower of Babel is
over. It's craziness.
Anyone can communicate any time.
The positives of that are, I think things are moving really quickly.
But the point I want to make is, see what happened to media.
Media collapsed.
It couldn't compete in this environment.
Like, you know, some of them will find ways through subscription or whatever, New York
Times will probably survive.
Maybe the BBC in some form will survive.
But the next phase, which I think people already know, but are trying to prevent
happening, is politics starts to reflect it.
Politics starts to reflect, wait, wait, in the same way that you wouldn't just have Fox
versus MSNBC, because now you've got thousands of bespoke media
outlets. Why would you not have a politics that reflects smaller units
of sovereignty, which is what America was set up for anyway?
And I think it's a matter of very short time before people are able to go, we should
have decentralised control over our state, over our town, over our community, that the
principle should be localisation and individual sovereignty.
That should be the principle. And when that principle comes up against corporatism,
global commerce, mass bureaucracy, that principle should win.
That ends in an instant cultural war, because it's like your community over there, yeah,
run it all woke, run it all however you want, run yours Muslim, do what you want.
But we're going to run our community.
And then you can have national consensus on big subjects, migration, what kind of military
force you want to keep, what kind of infrastructure is needed.
And if that conversation ever gets out, think how quickly the idea can spread.
And then who the **** wants to have a couple of hundred people in Congress or Westminster
Parliament? So I think even though in Britain it's disparate and desperate and
sometimes seems totally hopeless, especially for someone facing a rape trial just while
they're getting ready to get rid of juries.
Thankfully, not in rape trials, actually, but rape or sentences that hold trials
that hold big potential jail sentences.
You know, the hope I see in it is they're trying to keep down something.
But if enough people start thinking that way, like looking for our connections instead of
our differences, then I think there could be successive radical changes.
Yeah. I mean, I see that point.
I also, you know, just the way my brain works, I can see for that from that
decentralized command or that, you know, having decentralized government or like, hey,
you do your thing over there.
We're going to do ours over here.
I can also see that going pretty wrong as well, where eventually one group is going to
expand into the other groups land.
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