RE: 2015 UK General Election
May 7, 2015 at 12:41 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2015 at 12:42 pm by Napoléon.)
(May 7, 2015 at 12:26 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Russell Brand strikes me as a man who has a natural intelligence, but who has had a shit education. This makes him sometimes perceptive, and sometimes very extremely and utterly wrong, wrong in ways that would be easy to be right about, if only he had proper instruction.
He comes across as a very impressionable kind of person who latches onto one idea then flits to another as soon as it takes his interest. The guy was an addict and he certainly displays very 'addict' like behaviour IMO.
He seems to be somewhat clever but I do think he's far less intelligent than he likes to portray himself as. Often times I find he uses words in his vocabulary that would make him seem intelligent but are often unnecessary, or just to make him sound like a pseudo-intellectual.
Couple years ago with all his "don't vote" stuff, I was actually on board and agreeing with him.
However he gets one visit from Ed Milliband a week before the general election and he's suddenly urging all his followers to vote Labour? What an absolute sellout and hypocrite. The sad thing is, a lot of morons will follow his advice.
I knew after I saw some of his more spiritual bullshit videos he was a bit of a deluded mess, but I still wasn't expecting him to be so brazen as to make a video urging people to vote Labour, all the while trying to contort reasons in his own mind trying to justify why doing so would still be in the purpose of 'revolution' like he had been banging on about for the last 3 years.
All in all, I think the guy is a cunt. I had respect for him, but since making his youtube channel, appearing on political programs and then getting up his own arse about religion, I think all the attention has gone massively to his head.
