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Russell Brand

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“Or it can be mobilized in order to. Now, that framing isn't necessarily one that I would ordinarily gravitate to, but that's the one that is available to. That is the totemism of our culture. That's the paradigm that we are offered. So I suppose that's the one that many of us inevitably pursue.”
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“I don't want to feel better than no one else no more. I don't want to feel worse than anyone else. And I want to participate in other people's becoming who they are intended to be. There's a beautiful phrase in recovery you may enjoy. We recover the person we're intended to be. That somehow we can respect individuality, limitless, limitless diversity while somehow accepting that there is something unitive among us, something collective to be realized and achieved. So I suppose it was my own savouring of my particularness that I was experiencing, even though, and this is no fault of my parents, although I might analyze my culture, I felt that I couldn't express it and I didn't know what value it had and what its use was. It was in util until the culture tells you it can be monetized.”
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“I wanted to feel a little bit valuable. Suppose the first time that I really felt that was making people laugh, doing a school play at my little school, gray school, Bugsy Malone, and feeling the overwhelming, terrifying adrenaline and the accompanying sense of competence that comes with being able to corral and direct that energy when it comes, a sense of purpose, revelation. When you ask that, you know, what could you have added and what do you mean by silently brilliant?”
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“All energy at the most fundamental level requires polarity. It requires polarity. And I suppose that word parent in and that word parenthesis, another word for bracket in, suggests that you need to be held in some way. You need something that's going to be able to hold you. Now, if like me, I believe in God, Stephen. So the thing that defines me now is I believe in God. And I don't believe that I have unique access to God or superior access to God or that there's this little set of dances or codes or clothes that need to be worn to access God more primarily or more privately. I believe that in an absolute loving God that all of us have the right to be here, that I don't need no special adornments or epithets or epileps or badges or medallions, that it's enough for me to be one of everybody else. Back then, though, as a little kid, when I felt inferior and broken, I just wanted to feel a little bit special.”
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“I suppose And I find this to be quite common to addicts and alcoholics. There's this premetabolized quality that's waiting to be activated. Now brilliant is obviously a comparative and relative term and the training I've been fortunate enough to receive prohibits me from leaning too heavily into a framing like that now, like superior to better than But I feel that I had a sense of a resource that was waiting to unfold. I had a sense that there would be a secondary coordinate that might arrive in the form of a destination.”
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“All conditions isn't the broad cultural message you are insufficient. You will not be sufficient until you acquire this body, these objects, this approval, these affiliations. I don't even think it's personal to me. Like whilst necessarily our conversation has to be framed by sort of biographical detail that's particular to me, don't you find that when you know anyone's story really, that the universal was there waiting for you, that there is a ubiquity of this message? How many times have you heard people that are hugely successful say, I felt inferior, I didn't feel good enough, I wanted to achieve this, I didn't have this or that. Elsewise, what could Jung have achieved? Elsewise, what could Joseph Campbell have achieved? Were there not archetypes strewn about us, maps waiting to be discovered?”
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“Ten year old I reckon mate, now that I'm a dad. And you can't be a father to anyone else until you're a father to yourself. A sense that who you are is all right. You're all right. You don't need to worry. That you are enough, you are sufficient, we are going to be okay.”
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“So, my initial solution to feeling weak and disconnected and lonely and somehow silently brilliant was to try and become successful, was to try and become famous, was to try and have resources, to try and address all of the problems of my original condition. My original condition, culturally and socially, as I saw it, was lack of power, lack of value, lack of connection, lack of influence. And what does our culture tell us is the solution to this be somebody. And my God, I'm talking about a long time ago now. I'm talking about in the 80s and the 90s, now the culture, it is amplifying that message a hundredfold with a million screens in every direction, 50 lenses like the eyes on the inside of a fly rather than the almost 2D experience of lenses that I grew up.”
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“When the fella read it Chipsomers, one of the first people in recovery I ever met, when he read it, he went Ah, poor lonely little boy and I was twenty seven then so I suppose my life has been defined by addiction and addiction is in part a lack of connection and attempt to synthesize the connection to self other and God of your own understanding perhaps understood as a totality a sense of unity a unit of force a highest principle when it says in the Old Testament worship no other gods than me the implication I offer is that we are a species that worships and if you do not access the divine you will worship the mandial you will worship the profane you will worship your own identity you will worship your belongings You will worship the template lane. I want you that gets you distracted and relatively dumb.”
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“Though I felt like that I was in a state of lack. I don't know what it is to be a man. I don't know what it is to be a success. I don't know what it is to have power. I don't know what it is I recognize now, even to feel at ease, even to feel serene, even to feel relaxed. It's probably only by the time I got clean from crack and heroin and alcohol that I've noticed that I'd been having an anxiety attack for basically my entire life. I first told my life story, which is an ordinary exercise at treatment centres that help people to get rehabilitated from chemical dependency. And I was fortunate enough to go to one.”
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“I feel like I was looking for something. I feel that there is a deep spiritual appetite within all of us for connection, the subject that you have identified as our framing for this conversation that we are having. We do not have a culture that presents us a discourse around connection. We have a culture that is predicated upon individualism and materialism, your value. And this is, I think, across the political spectrum and even in more compassionate narratives around identity, individualism is still enshrined as the centrifugal point.”
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“Ordinariness Normal Cerms that are difficult to define. But I think we all know what we mean when we say a normal, ordinary, modest blue collar, background, low expectation, state schools. We know what images that conjures. My mum was sick a lot when I was a kid and my mum was the defining influence in my life all of us that are lucky enough to have mothers are going to be defined by that relationship as well as the other parental relationship. I feel like real early on something in me which I would now, because it's almost impossible Stephen not to reverse engineer these narratives, isn't it, and to thread it through with newly accrued and acquired wisdom”
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“I have had a life that is being defined by addiction, and that addiction, and in particular the models of recovery that are available for addiction, is a convenient framework for addressing the problems we have in our age that are expressed extensively and identifiably through materialism and attachment. I get attached to stuff. When I was a little boy, I grew up in a single parent family, just me and my mum. I come from an ordinary background in Essex Greys.”
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“I should admit that I wrote that comment Sometimes I do, even though I know I've written it when I read it back, it still gives me a boost.”
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“This is proper diary of the CEO stuff. There is deep spiritual appetite within all of us for connection, but we have a culture that is predicated upon individualism and materialism. My initial solution to feeling disconnected and lonely was to try and become famous. If you are using impermanent means to achieve a permanent solution, you can only fail. But what I would say is in that loneliness, in that sense of I'm not good enough, I'm worthless, are all the ingredients of success because it is sadly a gift to you.”
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“Well, here I am. Actor and author. He's one of the most unmissable performers on the planet. You don't be around when the laughter stops”
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