{"id":2506,"date":"2013-10-26T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2013-10-26T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T12:53:08","slug":"russell-brand-on-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2013\/10\/26\/russell-brand-on-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand on Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites. Billy Connolly said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t vote, it encourages them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From a barn-burner of an essay from Russell Brand about politics. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/2013\/10\/russell-brand-on-revolution\">We no longer have the luxury of tradition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His observations about left-ist political movements lacking excitement are pretty interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As John Cleese said, there is a tendency to confuse seriousness with solemnity. Serious causes can and must be approached with good humour, otherwise they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re boring and can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t compete with the Premier League and <em>Grand Theft Auto<\/em>. Social movements needn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lack razzmatazz.<\/p>\n<p>The right has all the advantages, just as the devil has all the best tunes. Conservatism appeals to our selfishness and fear, our desire and self-interest; they neatly nurture and then harvest the inherent and incubating individualism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites. Billy Connolly said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t vote, it encourages them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The desire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-Eq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}