Russell Brand Part 4
Meet the Baby-Sitter
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Meet the Baby-Sitter
"The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida." -Dave Barry
Podcasts are a welcome change from the narrow range of Hegelian diversity of the MSM. The explosion of content found in podcasts can be mined as part of a golden age of education—for those willing to do enough work to exercise discernment. However, podcasts can also provide that hall of mirrors in which people get trapped believing they've escaped from Plato's cave. The challenges of testing source content get harder when facing dozens of different perspectives based on a larger array of different factual claims. But you begin to recognize the same patterns of misinformation and disinformation among many of them, so long as you make a serious study of some of it, and Gell-Mann amnesia doesn't get in the way.
And at some point, I recognized that most of the daily podcasts are really just infotainment, some of it educational, much of it propagandized. My default assumption is that the podcast ecosystem is sculpted to serve the game of Hegelian pinball.
The more well produced shows are often the most consumed by teenagers and young adults for whom the TV is no longer the baby-sitter. Parasocial relationships that play gatekeeper to changes in the Overton window, or tell still maturing minds which "side" to be on in the never-ending game of divide and conquer.
Question: Which podcasters do you want baby-sitting the adult children who digest information from witty pundits rather than reading it for themselves?
Trick question. Teach them to read and normalize the behavior quickly and actively. That's on you. They might come around to reading for primary information consumption on their own, but that's on you first.
But in this modern world, humans eventually graduate their way up to playing with all manner of technology. Few will be off computers for long, so it's best to proceed with guidance. It may make sense at this moment to stop and meditate on who you'd want raising your children, who you would want running their classroom, and who you would want mentoring your teenager or young adult. Because the medium is the message.
Russell Brand wants that job. He wants it badly enough to tell his audience that believes that there are secret agendas…that there are secret agendas. Yeah. So, it makes sense to inspect his résumé as a role model. Because anyone can tell you what you want to hear, and the medium is the message.
All alone, this might be hitting below the belt. Edgelord's gonna edgelord.
Moving past the Edgelord portion of Russell's résumé, we get to the part about his experience with children. Russell has long actively spent time around children between shagging thousands and thousands of women, and making a handsome living telling jokes about it. It's good to see him giving back to the community.
"I get involved in other people's children, and sort of hijacking children…" -Russell Brand
I have no doubt that many people find interpretations of all of this to be open, and I am certainly happy letting everyone make up their minds. But as minds are made up around a confluence of facts and circumstances, I'd just like to document everything. Apologies on the length.
Let's forget about the résumé for a moment and just chat. What do you enjoy talking about when you're not in an interview for a baby-sitter?
Over the past three years and change, several occult pundits have pointed out the striking resemblance between the performance from the 2012 London Olympics and the 2020 events of the pandemic.
The attack on children in the hospital stands out. Here is the queen, declaring the 30th Modern Olympic Games open before fireworks form X's in the sky around triangles atop triangles.
Less remembered from those Olympics is that Russell Brand gave a performance during the closing ceremony (1:46:50 since the t=time failed in the link).
The first thing you might notice is that Russell sang the Beatles song, "I am the Walrus". This song is sometimes referred to as "meaningless", and John Lennon stated that he wrote the first line of it on an acid trip. But the song references the Lewis Carroll poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter. In that poem, the Walrus invites oysters to walk along the beach. The oldest and wisest of the oysters stands his ground, but the younger, foolish oysters follow, and are eaten by the Walrus and his companion, the tempted Carpenter. The story seems to be one of an evil Walrus enticing children to destroy, and luring the Carpenter, representing Christianity, to dine with him.
Lennon said that he was thinking about Hare Krishna followers at the time. We might interpret that more broadly as the cult followers of gurus.
The next thing you should notice is that Russell is dressed as the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, except with a purple coat and yellow-orange vehicle rather than the yellow-orange coat and purple vehicle.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was itself part of the Olympic performance, which closed with the band Muse playing their song Survival, which is a "psychopathic" Malthusian anthem about doing whatever it takes to win in a world of unsustainable constraints.
This was not the only time Russell Brand actively chose to play a character menacing children. A few years earlier, he starred in a few films that were definitely not designed to conflate "barely legal" and "not even" while simultaneously promoting the star male as a sexual alpha. Definitely not. Nobody is saying that. Why would anybody think that?
It did not take me two minutes of researching this film to learn that its name quickly became synonymous with a fetish porn genre that associates school girls with adult men of authority. Thankfully I never heard about that film until now. Nor had I heard of the 2010 flick, "Get Him to the Greek" until this month.
This could just be the stuff of a completely shameless entertainer.
Perhaps, though Russell tells us how full of shame he is. And that's how he knows he isn't a narcissist.
The name of Russell's band in that film is Infant Sorrow. I was not even aware of that fact when I wrote in an earlier section of this article,
Russell's current marriage is with Laura Gallacher, whose calm demeanor and seeming disinterest in elite circles might help keep Russell from self-destructing. Her judgment might be his best defense (again, in a Bayesian sort of sense) against allegations of sexual assault. From what I've read, Russell may very well be all of drug-free and arrest-free since they began their relationship, even if paparazzi might have snapped a photo of him scoring some drugs during the first couple of years he claimed sobriety. The couple has two children together. He wrote about one of them in his 2017 book, Freedom from Our Addictions,
The book is entertaining and easy to read. There’s a chapter about Brand’s daughter’s birth that is graphically real and very moving: “As if touched by the finger of creation, her eyes flash open and life possesses her and exudes from her. Like seeing behind the curtain as she moves from life’s shadow to life.” Still, I’m not sure how necessary the book is – surely, the existing steps literature works fine – so who is it for?
I guess when the guru writes poetry, that counts as "graphically real"? For the moment, Brand seems to prefer the feel of Infant Joy to Infant Sorry. As for me, I honestly can't say for certain if and when the gag ends.
You could cherry-pick this stuff from any…
There's more.
More?
Plenty.
For now I'm going to skip past Russell Brand's appearance with Scientologist Tom Cruise in Rock of Ages. More startling is Brand's foray into writing children's books. You really should listen to these two minutes of reading from Trickster Tales: The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
You might almost think that this Pied Piper thinks of himself as an illuminati, enlightened and uniquely capable of standing between healthy communities and barbarian hordes.
Russell's book is yet another tale of children following an adult with a disturbing interest in children to their doom. And while I'd like to think these are precautionary tales, Russell tells us himself that the main character is in many ways like him.
"If I was to run for mayor…I'd run under the slogan 'Russell Brand will look after your children'."
Lorraine's response, "...And give these children back to their mother, would you." I get the feeling she didn't ask Russell to babysit her kids.
Maybe Russell is really just trying to warn us—to open our eyes to these problems.
I've considered that possibility. And while I cannot read his mind, I look back at this résumé to a conversation with now-disgraced pedophile and BBC ambassador Jimmy Savile whose abuse of hundreds of children was said to be a very open secret.
I wonder what was said in the part of that video censored by YouTube…
Nevermind. Let's focus on what we do know was said between Russell Brand and Jimmy Savile.
Pinocchio? Another tale about a child struggling not to be captured by adults representing pathological tyranny.
Jiminy Cricket!
You said it.
I'll hold back on the rest of the tale of Jimmy Savile, which you can research at your own mental and emotional risk, but given the Olympic ceremonial footage we viewed, it is worth pointing out this one disturbing detail: Jimmy had an office in the children's wing of a hospital. And his last acting appearance was as a child molester of a sick girl in a hospital.
