You’ve probably seen the latest issue of New Statesman, where Russell Brand took over as guest editor. The theme he chose was 'Revolution of Consciousness', and his high-profile presence has already guaranteed that the issue got noticed and splashed on prime time British TV.
Brand’s argument is that there’s no good reforming what we have or giving the job to the ‘hot, clammy, grasping palms of Cameronn and Osborne’ (the current British prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, respectively).
You’ve probably seen the latest issue of New Statesman, where Russell Brand took over as guest editor. The theme he chose was 'Revolution of Consciousness', and his high-profile presence has already guaranteed that the issue got noticed and splashed on prime time British TV.
Brand’s argument is that there’s no good reforming what we have or giving the job to the ‘hot, clammy, grasping palms of Cameronn and Osborne’ (the current British prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, respectively).
‘David Cameron said in his conference speech that profit is “not a dirty word”,’ says Brand. ‘Profit is the most profane word we have. In its pursuit we have forgotten that while individual interests are being met, we as a whole are being annihilated.”
Elsewhere he writes: ‘Atheism and materialism atomize us and anchor us to one frequency of consciousness and inhibit necessary cooperation. . .’ A man after my own heart.
Brand and the many other contributors in this issue – Alec Baldwin, Naomi Klein, David Lynch and many others – essentially argue what Albert Einstein argued a century ago: we cannot reform a world with the same mindset that created it. And we can’t heal the current paradigm with any sort of Band-aid.
As Jamie Kelsey-Fry says, quoting Howard Zinn: ‘Civil Disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.’
And Brand: ‘We require a change that is beyond the narrow, prescriptive parameters of the current debate, outside the fortress of our current system.’
Brand says that we need to create a new revolutionary movement and revitalize the traditions of civil disobedience: ‘Our young people need to know there is a culture, a strong, broad union, that they can belong to, that is potent, virile and alive. . . .Take to the streets together with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.'
I applaud Brand, Baldwin and all the celebrities in this issue for putting this issue front and center as a talking point on the international stage. But what’s missing in the magazine (and in most discussions of evolution) is a map for how all of us can participate, individually and as a group, in an organized system of evolutionary change.
The biggest problem we face is our false sense of powerlessness. We are the most powerful generation, ever. We have a free and simple means, via the internet, to organize the entire planet in a system beyond the scope of any political party.
Here are a few preliminary thoughts of my own about what's really necessary:
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