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Feb. 8, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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The TRUTH About Biden’s State Of The Union Speech - #076 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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Wherever you're watching us now, the full show is available only on Rumble.
That means, Gareth, producer of the show, we've got to get as much into this first 10 minutes before community guidelines kick in, before free speech collapses, before we lose the ability to unite people from across the political spectrum and create new movements, new unity, new acceptance, a new vital political movement, which is surely what the world needs right now.
Biden's State of the Union speech maybe doesn't address the truth of America.
We'll be looking at that.
I've got a fantastic guest coming up, Satish Kumar, a genuine hero, an elder, a true, spiritual, potent voice that can provide the necessary sucker that we require at this time.
He's not a conspiracy theorist, is he?
That conspiracy theorist Satish Kumar when he was meeting those other conspiracy theorists like Martin Luther King Jr and Bertrand Russell, those crackpots in the SDE.
He fits the type.
You've got to watch out for them.
We're only going to be on Twitter and YouTube for a little while before we're on Rumble on the Wild West, so I want to make sure that we get as much across as possible.
Do you know what I want to give people the chance to do?
Everyone's worried about the energy crisis, aren't they?
The fuel, for some reason, has become very, very expensive and costly, even though the energy companies like Shell and BP are enjoying their most profitable years in history, even though they still receive government subsidies.
But we can't control that.
That system's beyond us.
It's beyond our reach.
But I have got a few little techniques to keep you warm during the winter months if you're experiencing any cold.
We've put together This compilation of shudder moments from Justin Trudeau that'll help you shudder yourself warm.
If you can't afford your energy bills, that don't matter none.
Just watch Justin Trudeau and shudder yourself warm as he embarrasses you into a glow of humiliating heat.
Check him.
Where we can be free and no man owns the fish.
Hello Vladimir, it's Rishi and Justin.
I need a singer because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low, anywhere the wind blows.
Ooh, that warms you up.
It warms you up to watch him!
When he goes... At least it can warm you.
We've got a fantastic quiz.
We're only going to give you the answer once we click over on to Rumble.
Which country poses as liberal but As a matter of fact, it's a totalitarian type of place.
A mass formation, you could say.
A mass formation, because we've been discussing mass psyche and mass hypnosis over the course of the week.
We get guests on here that can give us unique insights into the reality behind the systems of domination within which most of us toil and grind.
But now it's our take on the State of the Union Address, which is essentially just a propagandist piece, isn't it?
Absolutely.
But, like, a lot of people think that it was senseless faticus, that's imitative information, no real political value to it, just an oratory exercise with no real truth.
But I think it was pretty valuable, and there was some pretty powerful rhetoric in there.
And make no mistake, if you try to increase the price of Frisbee, I will veto it.
Make no mistake!
If you try anything to raise the cost of presenting themselves, I will veto it.
Yeah!
That's moving!
That's the world we're living in!
Also, Joe Biden, I think he owes us all an apology for the way that he conducts his trivia quizzes.
Name me a world leader who changed places with Xi Jinping.
Name me one!
Name me one!
All right, mate.
Do you want to calm down?
Justin Trudeau?
Yeah, that's one.
Justin Trudeau, Rishi Sunak, maybe, like, all of them, really.
Why is he... What is that mood?
It's aggressive.
That's aggressive?
Name me one!
I don't like it when he does that.
I worry for him, and I worry for us.
When he might turn himself into chalk, the poor old sod.
Yeah, because it was like it wasn't rhetorical.
It was like he actually wanted an answer.
Oh God, I can't think.
Jesus, Joe, please calm down.
Let me check Hunter's laptop.
Oh no, where is that damn thing?
And there's this crazy lady, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I bet loads of you like her.
But what I would say is that she shouldn't wear her buttons as a necklace in the same outfit.
The one thing he did not talk about was the one thing he should have talked about.
He should have apologised to America for the Chinese spy balloon.
Everyone loves that balloon, don't they?
That balloon has really lit up the political scene because it's... The thing is with a balloon...
Power these days seems so diffuse, untenable.
Technocratic, governed by a cadre.
Technological, inaccessible to most of us who don't understand the complexity of the way that technology operates, manages demographics and data.
But like, when something, like, old school, like there's a balloon floating in the... You up there?
Like, Joe Budden, he could deal with that with one of his angry fish shakes.
Get down there, you varmint!
Shoot it straight out of the sky himself, couldn't he?
Yeah, he could.
One of the things that, of course, we are concerned about, and let me know what you think about this.
If you're watching this on Twitter, do a little tweet about it.
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If you're a member of our locals community, that's the stream that I'm watching right there.
For example, hello there, Ashela.
Yeah, it's a new hat.
Listen, we're not trying to bring down the government here.
Don't worry about people's hats.
That's not the issue.
What we're looking at is how the left have fetishised conflict with Russia in order to pursue a unipolar agenda and how the right potentially is looking at exacerbating the conflict that is already an economic one.
I suppose Joe Biden has imposed the most aggressive sanctions yet because of semiconductors.
There's a thing you've never heard of that now you have to learn.
There's semiconductor wars now.
Semiconductor wars?
That's what's happening now, yeah.
Get your hands off my semiconductor!
Yeah, this is how we're going to beat China, apparently.
So I suppose this is what we're asking, is that even though the State of the Union Address, I'm sure, was full of the usual platitudinous patriotic claptrap, are we being groomed and prepped for yet more global wars?
I mean, the one thing that was good about the proxy war with Russia, I thought, is it's not China.
That's like the best thing about it.
And now it looks like we're heading that way.
We've already had that general say it's going to happen in two years.
Now you've got Biden saying we've got to beat China and that's the way to unite us.
Unite us in a war against an incredibly well organised and powerful global entity.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Biden took aim at China It is.
Well, at the moment they're saying competition, aren't they?
But then you've got generals saying that there's a war coming.
And then you've got the thing with the semiconductor.
It is priming us towards aggression with China.
Is anybody in the financial industry saying that a war would be profitable?
That's something to watch out for.
Surely not.
White House linked venture capital fund boasts China war would be great for business.
Now we remember this, don't we?
Do you remember when like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, all them dudes told their shareholders we can guarantee profits in the next quarter because this war is going to be dragging on?
Yeah, war with Ukraine is good for business.
I think, let me know if you agree with me in the chat and the comments, that at this point, because of our ability to curate information from a wide variety of sources, if we truly watch the narratives that are usually suppressed, ones that you won't see discussed on mainstream media, you might be able to...
Pre-empt where these conflicts are going and even when they might commence We're already into the sanctions at stage.
We're already into the condemnatory Bombastic language phase the economic opportunity of war China encircled by a war John Pilger called a noose.
Yeah missile bases now arc Yeah.
An arc.
Yeah, an arc and a noose.
Yeah, exactly.
I'd rather have an arc.
Sure.
Because an arc, there's positive connotations, like through an arc you pass into spiritual bliss and awakening.
Through a double arc, maybe even a little McDonald's, but a noose, nothing good comes out of that unless, I mean, I don't even want to get into that territory until we're in the Wild West that is Rumble.
But this is why we shouldn't be tricked by this whole balloon stuff.
It's silly.
I know Marjorie Taylor Greene's kind of using it in a political sense, but it's silly.
It's the kind of perfect little symbol for a government who's trying to start wars and whatever way it is they're going to war with China.
Because it's hollow, empty, full of hot air, but easy to identify.
Sure.
I sometimes feel that news narratives require symbols.
I'll handle this as carefully as I possibly can.
Part of the idea that coronavirus originated in a wet market, which still yet may be the truth because there are several theories being discussed and no conclusions have yet been offered, but the wet market was an evocative idea because it plays to the ordinary mistrust that Occidental people may have when contemplating Food sources, different cultural ideas and values.
When you start seeing the different... It's very basic and primal, the food people eat, the way people are, our atavistic suspicion of the other, of people that are from other communities.
These things transcend ethics and morality.
These are about anthropology.
Historically, the most likely way that an infectious disease arrives in your community is a stranger.
That's beyond morals and ethics.
That's not a reason to underwrite racism.
But when a narrative around, it came from a wet market, you know that the subtext is they're different than us.
Something like a balloon, it provides a convenient symbol.
It's territorial.
The balloon is literally above America.
Increasingly likely now that it was a weather balloon, at least that's what they're saying.
You'll still see people say, oh no, they could have got down into the air force bases and fired off something from a nuclear fission factory.
Yeah, but even if that is the case, I mean literally when we're talking about this noose and this arc of military bases, perhaps giving the US a front row seat to spy on China.
And then a point that Caitlin Johnson made in one of her brilliant articles as usual this week was, Talking about Edward Snowden, the revelations around spying with that, it's like we get all in this frenzy about this balloon because it eventually leads us towards this narrative about war with China, but when revelations like Edward Snowden come out that America is spying on its own citizens, oh we bang him up and or let him flee off to Russia.
What are you more worried about?
A balloon or your own government spying on you?
Right now, who are you more afraid of?
China or your own government?
Now, your own government, remember, we are interested in presenting you with transcendent narratives and diagnostic tools.
For example, our problem with the Democrat Party isn't, oh, we really like the Republican Party, and we don't care which party you like.
It's irrelevant to us.
We think there needs to be a new populist unifying movement transcendent of those ideals.
When the Democrat Party were campaigning, they didn't say we're going to be waging a new war on drugs.
They talked about the horror of the opioid crisis.
But guess what's happening now?
They are amping up the war on drugs, as you can see from this story.
Harsher penalties for fentanyl related substances.
Now if there's one aspect of the drug crisis and mental health crisis in America in the last few years, it was the disgusting way the pharmaceutical industry induced that crisis.
The profits that were gleaned, and this seldom happens, is an area where I'm something of an expert.
I understand addiction and I understand what psychologically underwrites addiction.
Despair.
Pain, loss, disconnection, loneliness, total lack of trust in the system.
So to hear that the war on drugs is back but under the new auspices of liberalism shows you precisely and exactly how hollow this administration is.
As hollow and as empty as a balloon.
Well yeah the thing is this is it's being talked about and I think it was in the State of the Union where Biden was talking about the trafficking element of this and that we're cracking down on the trafficking element and that's how we're going to solve the problem of the fentanyl issues.
But it's also that fentanyl any fentanyl related cases it's a schedule one drug now so it means that like people taking it You know, so you're going to end up with the same situation where prisons are going to get filled up with more people.
It's exacerbating the problem.
The prison industry?
Well, it could be, yeah.
Could fool those companies that use cheap prison labour.
Right, exactly, and the profits that are accrued in relation to that.
And, you know, it's essentially creating a system and a problem that exists already and exacerbating it.
Our great mentor and elder George Carlin used to say, you don't need a conspiracy where interests converge.
Let me know what you think about that quote in the chat.
Let me know what your favourite George Carlin quote is.
Or which other elder you turn to.
One of our elders we'll be talking to a little later in the show, Satish Kumar.
A man who went on a pilgrimage from India, met greats like Bertrand Russell, the English philosopher, and Martin Luther King, the unparalleled, peerless leader of the American civil rights movement.
More dark money flooding into politics in spite of the Democrat Party saying that they wouldn't sanction it.
And by the way, We're not saying that the Republican Party are the solution to these problems, are we?
Because we believe in transcendent ideals.
No, but you can point out hypocrisy when you see it.
I mean, for a party that once decried dark money and said, you know, it's just the Republicans using it and we wouldn't do it, and then winning an election using dark money, and now they're They won an election using the very dark money they said they would never use.
Here it is.
There's a promise from them.
Democrats deride dark money.
Then they use dark money.
Is there another broken promise from those Democrats?
The opioid crisis.
Joe Biden's new plan to end the opioid epidemic is really ambitious and bold.
Biden's speech comes with opioid epidemic having been a deadly public health crisis.
But, you know, listen, should we flip over now?
If you're watching us on Twitter, if you're watching us on YouTube, there's a link in the description so you can watch us on Rumble.
We broadcast every single day.
The reason we're on Rumble is we can freely say whatever we want and we believe in...
Unity, transcendence, freedom of the individual, freedom of the community, traditional values, progressive values, your right to democratically run your community, public discourse where all voices are heard, valued and respected and everybody is included and we unify where possible against centralised establishment power, that's our real threat, not one another, that we should find ways to unite, accept and love one another and if that That makes me a conspiracy theorist baby.
It does.
Well then I'm not then.
Get me my, take off my brown bobble hat and hand me my tinfoil one.
Okay, let's have a look at the Republicans.
If you think they're the solution, see you later other guys.
If you think the Republicans, look what the Republicans want to do.
They want to roll back child labour laws.
But surely gal, it'll just be jobs, you know, it's good for kids to have a little bit of work.
Yeah.
Maybe you could work at hairdresser, sweeping the floor.
Right.
Pet shop.
Yeah, with the pets, that's a good job.
If I'd had to, did you want to do jobs when you was a kid?
Oh, I didn't want to do a paper round.
Hey, did you have one?
No, I didn't.
I had to have one for a bit.
I was throwing papers down.
Of course you did.
I didn't like doing the paper round.
But like, what I would have done is worked in a pet shop.
And when you think about children doing jobs, look at what the, the, the reprehensible Iowa bill to expand child labour.
Look at the jobs.
Mining, Really odd.
That's like, that's a cliche bad job.
Yeah.
Backbreaking, that's not right for adults.
No.
Adults shouldn't have to do binding.
I think there's been some pretty bad health risks associated with it.
You can make you cough, you can hurt yourself down there.
Logging, that's got to be dangerous.
Surely.
Like dealing with great big trees and logs and stuff.
And I think worst of, the worst of the bunch I'd say is animal slaughtering.
That's not a weekend job, slaughtering an animal.
What process would you have to go through?
And again, even as a vegan person, I don't judge people for eating meat or even hunting.
People are going to be who they are.
We've all got different perspectives on reality.
But for me, I can't kill animals.
But if your weekend job is you've got to kill a cow... You'd really look forward to going back to school on Monday.
I've got to get school work.
It is hard.
Algebra.
But I didn't have to kill a cow.
I didn't have to look into the face of a sentient being and then pull the trigger on a bolt gun.
Like that.
And sort of see it go... And then sort of pass into a terrible death that I know I was personally responsible for.
I'd rather do games.
Games?
Sometimes maybe it's cold.
You've got to do a cross-country run.
Or you just run to the back.
Stay at the back maybe.
Better though.
Better than... What you're not doing is killing one of the creatures of the Lord as a temporary material expression of the limitless love that we surely all must be accessing.
One of the things I'll be talking to Satish Kumar about.
Now, we mentioned the quiz a little bit earlier.
Which country pretends to be liberal, but is actually a tricky little totalitarian country?
Let me just see what people are saying.
Who do you lot think it is?
Some people are feeling bad about Utrecht, but some people are saying USA, some people are saying Ukraine.
No, because they're, like, if you think who's got the nicest hair, New Zealand, not bad.
Someone said CSC, said Canada.
CSC, Raj, Canada.
Let's show the answer right now.
Oh Canada, our home and native land.
I got it.
That sting was too long.
Much too long.
Three seconds too long.
Christ, we're all going to be dead soon.
We're going to die during a bloody sting.
Made me feel, I'm actually feeling a bit chilly.
I think I need a warming shot of Trudeau.
Warm yourself up with the Trudeau shutters.
Let's have a look at him once more.
Oh, look at them.
Can you hear them in there, panicking?
They don't know how to ride that deck, do they?
I can't move at this pace, Gareth.
Do you need to throw me?
Shall I throw to it again?
I'm not cold anymore, but I will get cold later.
I'll tell you that.
Yeah.
Like, what I feel like this is Justin Trudeau, with his sincerity, has the ability to induce deep shudders.
Keep that thing, like, loaded on somewhere.
I'm going to pop back there.
Oh, I know you will.
You'll test them.
Or we'll test you.
Have a different laptop with things that are needed immediately.
Let's have a look at it.
And no man owns the fish.
Hello Vladimir, it's- Is that his take on teach a man to fish, isn't it?
Right, I didn't- He's doing, I think- That's not- What accent is that he's doing?
You shouldn't be doing that.
That's not good, what accent was he doing there, guys?
No, Trudeau and his accents.
Like, he's- He wants to be someone else, Trudeau, doesn't he?
And it's weird that the first syllable of his last name is True, because he's a particularly... He ain't True-doe.
That ain't True-doe!
And that's how he would say it, as well, because he'd be doing a street South London ethnic accent.
There he is.
This is my favourite one, is this Vladimir.
Richie and Justin.
I don't mind him doing that so much though.
You probably would really like him if you were like I guess he's at some stage school in London when he yeah I think it was just wasn't it the day before something really serious yeah they did some stuff with the truckers like around then they said those truckers Nazis, and we're going to shut down all the bank accounts.
It's this time where we just all need to be very careful about what we're doing.
Christina Freelander, like W.E.F.
Stooge, freezing up Canadian people's bank accounts.
Justin Trudeau, easy come, easy go.
We're free, I know.
They're doing like Wayne's World stuff.
You can't have people like that running.
That was the day before Her Majesty's funeral.
That was it.
That was it.
That stays in your mind.
He was in England, I think he was in England at this point.
Have you had the Queen's death yet?
No.
I haven't accepted it.
No, it's very difficult.
I've not fully, deep down, accepted it.
If I see King Charles on a pound note.
Well you will.
I won't accept it.
I'd only accept Her Majesty's tender.
You'll be lucky if you're using any kind of actual cash notes these days Ross.
You will earn nothing and you will be happy.
Certainly not in Canada anyway, that's not the way it's going.
Because they are, actually there are stories behind this, this isn't just frivolity and just an opportunity to show you Trudeau, God love him, being slightly absurd.
There's a new online censorship bill that's been passed in Canada, what does it mean Gal?
Currently the law for censorship only kind of pertains to like TV and radio and things like this, but this is designed to extend those powers for online media as well.
Just more censorship?
More censorship, but this time moving to the online space.
They say things like pedos, terrorists, all that.
Yeah, I guess it will.
I mean, they'll use whatever... You've got to watch out for pedos.
We're going to censor everyone.
Yeah, it'll be for your safety.
It'll be hate speech and all these... Again, all these things that are right in that people shouldn't say, you know...
Things about people that are... Be kind!
Right!
Be kind to each other!
If you're in that chat right now, you better be being kind to each other.
But at the same time, you know, freedom of speech is a right.
And once you get to the point where you're policing what people say, if they're not harming people, then you've got an issue.
Yeah, it's a problem.
Gal, are they doing some CBDC stuff and all?
Yeah, okay, so the Canada's... Smart cities.
Smart cities.
So these are like data-driven cities.
The guys, the way that they're introducing this is that it's about climate change, is that people will be able to kind of monitor their climate change and all help to, you know, What our job is now, I think, is to diagnose upcoming trends.
As well as doing our level best to inform you of reality as we understand it, I think we have to be alert to the geopolitical issues, such as the reality behind the proxy war between the USA and Russia and what the goals are of that.
We've spoken about that at some length.
There are Numerous goals to destabilize and drain Russia, to create a post-war Ukraine that generates opportunity for companies like BlackRock, to pilot ideas like digital ID and surveillance.
They've already said that Ukraine will be 100% digital.
So to report the stories that you don't get.
You tell us in the chat in the comments if this is what you want.
Then to be alert Excuse me, of emergent stories like the evolving conflict between the USA and China and how we're prepared and groomed for it.
Then to watch out for stories about digital IDs, censorship.
That's one of the things we're super interested in and what we do with our guests.
We bring on guests that are experts in those areas.
If you cannot control communication and information because of the technological revolutions of
the last 20 years in particular, what's obviously a requirement is the ability to
censor and to smear dissenters.
These things become, and you can see how that is increasing, more arguments for censorship
and more like radical condemnation of, I would say, players within the political sphere that
just 20 years ago were considered ordinary rivals.
take American politics.
The right of the Republican Party weren't regarded as, like, flat-out Nazis.
There's a rise of nationalism as a response to globalism, no doubt about it, but the ordinary political discourse within a country like America was, Republicans, Democrats, they really make no difference, so it wasn't, like, fueled by hatred.
And that's one of our main points, isn't it?
That if you were sort of fervidly pro-Joe Biden, Then what are you now doing with what's happened in that country since then?
With what's happening now with the opioid crisis story that we just talked about today, the escalating of tensions, the botched Afghanistan, all of this stuff.
What do you do with that?
You have to accept that ultimately these are establishment entities.
You also have to hope that, like, on the other side, that when Donald Trump comes on the telly and says stuff about, you know, ending the war and that there wouldn't be war if he was president, that it doesn't mean that if he does get to become president again, that then they ramp stuff up with China even more.
You know, you have to hope that on both sides.
I mean, Jimmy Dore was brilliant last week when he came on and he said, this is not about either party, this is about the military-industrial complex.
That is who's in control here.
And increasingly we're seeing, and if we put that out yet, that presentation about war is America's business, that's what they require.
Is that the video we put out yesterday?
Yeah, I think it was.
There's a requirement for ongoing war.
You can't stabilize American economics without it.
We've got a fantastic presentation for you now.
It's pretty funny and also, I've got to say, terrifying.
This is about the AI and automation revolution, replacing human beings with robots in order to, well, mostly kill us and take our jobs.
I'm not sure in what order.
That will become clearer over the course of the presentation.
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
No, here's the effing news!
On the good news or the bad news?
Robots are coming for your job.
Also, they might kill you.
Wait, that's two bits of bad news.
If we're to unite against the threat of terrifying killer robots and AI taking all of our jobs, we better learn to communicate better, even if the systems of communication may end up being co-opted by those very robots.
Let's have a look at some of those terrifying robots now.
I don't like that their soundtrack is like Stomp or one of those Broadway shows where people are like dum-dum-dum-da-dum-dum.
I'd rather they river danced.
Yeah, well, at least no-one's strapped a gun to their back and just let them loose in society where they nervously spray bullets into a barren landscape.
Alright, well as long as it's just the military using these terrifying robot dogs against people from other countries who are nothing like us and don't have soul spirit stuff, we don't have to worry about that.
We don't want them filtering into domestic police forces and being used against the domestic population.
That'll be unforgivable!
There I draw the line.
In March, the Biden administration was criticized for encouraging local governments to use the American Rescue Plan Act, ARPA funds, a 1.9 trillion pandemic relief aid package on policing in the midst of an ongoing pandemic.
There are many confusing things that happened in that pandemic, but it just didn't make sense.
But perhaps the most confusing thing was when they went, OK, in order to help people that have suffered as a result of this pandemic, we are buying an army of robot dogs that can shoot people.
How's that going to help?
Wear a mask?
Some towns and cities approved police requests to spend pandemic relief funds on drones and armoured vehicles.
We brought you that story at the time.
This week, members of Los Angeles City Council's Public Safety Committee voted in favour of LAPD's acquisition of military robots.
Because LAPD have got such a great history when it comes to dealing with civil unrest, that what you want is for them to have autonomous clip-clop gun dogs unleashed throughout Compton!
The result of the committee's vote were not surprising.
Four of its five members are top recipients of campaign donations from political groups representing LAPD officers.
Of course, there are great people in the police force.
I happen to know some great people in the police force, so this is not an out-and-out attack on the police force.
This is an attack on militarizing the police force and the potential of the police force being used against the public that they're supposed to be protecting and serving.
It's not like there's any history or current news stories about the police attacking citizens.
In the past, these semi-autonomous quadrupedal bots have had only brief tours of duty with police forces across the U.S.
You know how they're introducing them to us by making them laugh, aren't they?
Like, hey, look at these funny little clip-clop dog.
How can we make American people like these evil killer robots?
Make them like dogs?
Yeah, make them like dogs.
They wouldn't fall for that, though, would they?
They'll see a dog with a gun on its back is still a sort of robot dog.
Oh look at this one!
It thinks it's people!
He thinks he's people!
In Honolulu, Hawaii, police deployed the bots at homeless encampments during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The NYPD was also seen using a bot named Digidog to patrol public housing projects.
Where should we start introducing these robot killer dogs to the public?
What about, like, homeless people?
Poor people who can't do anything about it?
Whose spirits have been broken by crushing inequality?
I mean, would that be wrong?
Would that be the wrong thing?
Surely what they need is identifiable aid.
In fact, this 1.9 trillion dollar package could be used to- Listen!
You know where this is heading!
We're sending those robot dogs to fuck with the homeless!
Sorry, sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned the package.
While robot maker Boston Dynamics has promised that it wouldn't allow its bots to harm human beings, that'll do then.
That's not the plot of Terminator.
We promise we will not go back into the past and kill John Connor.
Well, that's enough for me.
Carry on then.
The San Francisco City Council vowed last year that it's okay for police to use robots to kill.
Well, they've fucking already changed their mind.
Yeah, I suppose it would be okay for it to kill.
Yeah, but definitely not going back in time, though.
Oh, no, yeah, no.
Definitely, let's not change that.
We can't do that yet.
The LAPD dog-like military robot was bought at a cost of nearly $280,000.
If the past is precedent...
The goal here is to normalise and ingrain the technology so that taxpayers start footing the bill down the line.
No, they wouldn't do that, would they?
Get the taxpayers to pay for something that became profitable and ultimately led to less freedom for all of us?
No, that doesn't even sound remotely familiar.
This is what happened when LAPF, Los Angeles Police Foundation, funded a pilot of LAPD body camera surveillance, funded LAPD's implementation of Palantir data processing systems, funded the hiring of controversial academics But otherwise, have you done it?
No.
Other than that seemingly endless list, we've barely done it at all.
All those privately funded experiments have since become taxpayer liabilities.
Unity Safety Partnership Surveillance Program.
But otherwise, have you done it?
No.
Other than that seemingly endless list, we've barely done it at all.
All those privately funded experiments have since become taxpayer liabilities.
They're crafty, aren't they?
Residents have warned that the robots could be outfitted with lethal munitions,
following a pattern of mission creep that we saw with LAPD's use of drones, body cams,
and myriad other technologies.
But it's not just killer robots on the street we need to worry about, although that is quite a lot to worry about.
Because you know, most of us aren't homeless or so poor that we can be used to test robot dogs on.
Yet.
Major fast food chains are employing thousands of robots to flip burgers, brew espressos, and greet customers.
Would you like a coffee?
Oh, shit!
Oh, God!
Sorry, sir.
Sorry.
See you in court.
I am your new lawyer.
That guy's a good friend of mine.
And it is a fraction of the cost compared to paying human workers.
Phew!
A plan with no drawbacks.
White Castle is testing the flippy robot This is the Flippy Robot!
Oh wow, the Flippy Robot, well that sounds fun, what does it do?
Flip and flop, and slide around, play funny games?
It takes your job.
Oh, but look at Flippy!
That was your life.
Fuck you.
Is that what the Flip is?
Yes.
White Castle is testing the Flippy Robot at 100 locations, and Chipotle uses a one-armed robot to make tortilla chips at one site, and Starbucks has $18,000 AI-powered espresso machines in at least 1,200 locations.
When you watch this mainstream media news report on the Flippy Robot, please notice their perspective and their general tone towards the Flippy Robot.
That it's favourable, that it's fun, that it's innocuous.
Even when it's announced that it's going to have a human economic cost, they still see it as brilliant because their agenda is not interrupted by the Flippy Robot.
It is ultimately served, as is your espresso, piping hot by a robot that hates you.
Chipotle's testing an autonomous kitchen robot that can make its tortilla chips.
Yes.
Yes.
You idiot.
Officials with the chain restaurant said the mechanical assistants named Chippy.
Do you think people will accept these robots if we give them glib, stupid little nicknames?
No, they won't be that stupid.
Sorry sir, you've lost your job.
Oh, why?
I've been working my hardest.
I know, but look at Chippy.
Fuck you.
We'll allow the humans to focus on actual food related issues.
Yes, we need a little positive news.
That's not positive news.
That's not positive news if you're a minimum wage person.
That's not positive news if you're concerned about the automization of the workforce.
That's not positive news if you care about increasing inequality and the inability of ordinary people to organize against centralized power.
That's bad news.
That's bad news cheerfully delivered by the media arm of centralized authority.
A follow-up story on Chippy, of course, you know, also related to Flippy, which is the hamburger flipper that is stationed in some White Castle restaurant.
There's Chippy.
There's Flippy.
Hey, sir!
Come back here!
Grippy!
Come back here!
Drink your coffee!
Ah!
Too hot!
I can't drink it!
Get drippy!
Chippy is essentially, as we saw in the photos there, a long robotic arm that cooks tortilla chips and dumps them into a bin.
Dumps them into a bin!
Bon Appetit!
And ultimately removing the need for an employee to be there doing this.
I'm all for uh for chippy guys, chippy and flippy.
Chippy and flippy and lippy and grippy.
Like Teletubbies for future unemployment.
This might be good for for stocks like a Chipotle, eventually like a McDonald's because it is just going to
drive a lot more efficiency.
In a way even this innocuous seemingly story is a good example of how the mainstream media
facilitates the agenda of centralized authority.
I don't want to be conspiratorial, but the coalescence of financial interest is to the advantage of the kind of elites that hugely benefited, for example, during the pandemic and benefit during this war.
And the more that people become expendable, generally speaking, the more power they have.
If, like, the only power that we have is, hey, we're not going to do that, I'm not buying that, why don't we come together and organise our own city?
They've got chippy, flippy, lippy and grippy, all of Donald Duck's bastard robot nephews.
No leverage against them.
Actually, we've got a leverage robot.
As I mentioned, reduces labour costs in the restaurant.
Reduces labour costs means reduces your ability to negotiate a living wage for your time.
If you invest one time in this particular robot, that's one less employee.
One less employee!
They're literally describing how you've lost your job.
I mean, was there not enough suffering in the 2008 crash?
Was there not enough suffering during the pandemic?
Is there not enough global suffering as a result of these interests being pursued at every level of society?
Then this is presented as, like, good news.
Chipotle are going to be sacking people and dumping your food in a bin and expecting you to say thank you for it.
Look at this robot as an employee.
That employee is not going to be taking off days from work.
It's not going to be taking off any time, is it, Flippy or Chippy?
It's certainly not going to complain about its labor conditions or about growing inequality across America or the possibility of ordinary people having a life that's built around more than just working, endless shifts, and maybe looking out the window one day and seeing a butterfly or a leaf floating on a breeze.
Chippy don't care about nature.
Chippy don't care about you.
Chippy don't care about God.
Chippy don't care about nothing.
Bon Appetite!
Unless the arm falls off because the bolts fall off, and that is unlikely.
Bolts fall off.
We didn't like the bit where he said the bolts might fall off.
Sorry.
Sorry about that.
Your job could be done by Flippy.
If we put a tie on him, I'll do it.
Just tell me where to stand.
We gotta get that voice right.
He's based on Zelensky!
And lastly, improved food quality.
Again, I am all for the perfect chip.
Give it to me.
I'm willing to pay more for the perfect tortilla chip.
I'm gonna leave there happy, feeling good about myself.
How dare they include improved food quality on that list, like a faceless soulless robot can prepare food better than a human being, or your grandmother, or the relationship between ceremony, ritual, community, culture and food.
Every single bit of humanity extracted.
The thing that's true is reduces labour costs.
All the other things on that list are sort of mitigating.
In fact, I don't care about anything other than that, and I'm not blaming the individual news show, or even A massive organization like Chipotle.
It's systemic thinking.
We have already become automatized in the way we approach reality because of interests built around finance and domination.
They become a person, I think.
Who fixes Chippy?
I can have a great conversation with Chippy and Flippy.
They would struggle to match their humanity.
You know, this is essentially like a factory worker, a factory machine.
If you're a Ford, you operate robots right now.
This is very much something similar and maybe it won't wear out that much.
All right.
But where are all these ideas coming from?
A 2020 World Economic Forum report predicted that robotics and automation would displace 85 million jobs globally in the coming five years.
Experts have also claimed that AI bots will take 20% of all jobs within five years.
That's inequality in action.
That is, you will own nothing and you will be happy.
In action.
This is the concentration and consolidation of power.
And if you think that's conspiratorial, remember the technological revolution of the 50s.
Vacuum cleaners, white goods, you know, dishwashers and all that.
What is there now?
Have you got more time?
Or has it worked out that it's just built-in obsolescence and endless cycle of consuming?
And this is just another advance in the same mentality.
But according to the WF, more new roles will be created.
97 million.
As humans, machines and algorithms increasingly work together.
It's a bit sketchier on those particular details of its master plan.
But this will help everybody.
How?
I don't know.
Would you like some bugs?
No.
What if Flippy makes the bugs all delicious for you?
I am your grandmother!
Eat your bugs!
Do you not want to eat it?
I wouldn't like to pry.
Okay, so let's see how the research underwrites some of Klaus Schwab's theories.
New research shows the rise of robots may not be as beneficial for workers as some claim.
What?
What about trickle-down economics?
could have positive impacts on economic growth and productivity according to economists,
but workers might not reap the rewards.
What about trickle-down economics?
We can use Drippy to scoop up any trickles and give those back to the elites.
Exposure to robots had negative effects on employment, leading some workers to drop out of the labor force and
increasing unemployment.
The economists examined the effects of industrial robots on the Chinese labour market using data from over 15,000 families and found that the workforce struggled to adjust to the dramatic changes brought by robotics.
So what exactly was it that made working with robots so difficult?
Do you want an espresso?
Do you want an espresso?
Dump that in a bin.
What is the problem?
Are we not friendly enough?
Robot exposure led to a decline in labour force participation, minus 1%, employment, minus 7.5%, and hourly wages, minus 9% of Chinese workers, they wrote.
At the same time, among those who kept working, robot exposure increased the numbers of hours worked by 14%.
The implications of robotisation in emerging markets for jobs, growth and inequality could be profound, the economists wrote.
They went on to argue that developing nations may be faced with the decision between increased productivity and potential higher economic inequality and social unrest if they choose to continue automating away jobs with robots.
Hopefully then there are new protest laws being introduced all over the world and harsh new measures preventing people from forming unions and coming together.
Also, hopefully, there are massive censorship laws that prevent people from conducting conversations in public spaces that allow them to organise around alternative narratives and agenda that oppose centralised authority.
Keep watching the mainstream media everyone, you'll see the way this is heading.
That's why we need independent voices like this and independent conversations like this one, so that we can continue to present mainstream news and advancing technologies in a more balanced light.
That's not to say that technology isn't fascinating, that all of this couldn't be used to create some kind of utopian society where people didn't need to work and that we could spend all our time praying and exploring inner and outer space and creating Wonderful new systems of opportunity and care and love for one another, psychedelic ventures, but I don't imagine that's the way all this is heading.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments in the chat.
I'll see you in a second.
Thanks for choosing Fox News.
Good day.
No.
Here's the fucking news!
Sensitive heart 25.
Well done on this video.
I feel almost like crying about these robots.
I'm unemployed anyway, so we can't take my job.
So it's all bad news.
It's not bad.
Excuse me.
BD Canu.
We're living in historical times.
Get your households in order.
Stay free, awake, self-sufficient and unified.
This is something Gareth and I were discussing earlier.
So many of us are prisoners of comfort, unable to cope in reality.
I feel an urge to train myself to be able to feed myself to survive if there is the solar flare or some event that brings civilization crumbling to rubble.
Hunter Biden, oh I'm not going to read that name out, Hunter Biden then one of his hobbies 2022, those robotic dogs won't need Oh God, that whole comment is disgusting.
Peace, love, light.
You can't adapt to insanity.
Just say no and go your own way.
Well, there's some lovely comments there from you, members of our community, you beautiful people.
Gareth, we've got our wonderful guest joining us now.
I'm very excited, honoured in fact, to introduce Satish Kumar.
Who, as well as being a former monk, I wonder how you get out of the monk game?
Is it like being a former gangster?
A lifelong activist, a significant figure, and I have argued consistently that were there to be a global council of elders, or even, you know, don't have to be global, Satish Kumar would be on it.
He's the founder of the Resurgence Trust, that's an educational charity that seeks to inform and inspire a just future for all.
He's the editor of the charity's change-making magazine, Resurgence Anecologist, Satish Kumar entered first into public consciousness in 1962 when he walked 8,000 miles, a global pilgrimage over two years.
He started at Mahatma Gandhi's grave and walked to Moscow, Paris, London and the United States where he met Martin Luther King Jr.
and I'm very proud to call him a teacher.
Satish, thank you very much for joining us on Stay Free today.
Thank you for having me, Russell.
Satish, you came to prominence in the 1960s where the countercultural movement genuinely seemed like it might change the world before it metastasized into kind of individualism and consumerism that is Still morphing into a tyrannical force, an entirely immersive force across our culture.
During the 60s when you came to prominence, people spoke openly about the desire for peace.
In this time that appears to be defined by conflict of different kinds, most Obviously, of course, literal war.
Do you feel that when there is conflicts that are necessary for the military-industrial complex, one of the most influential and powerful forces on this planet, while there is a war between Ukraine and Russia, when it feels like there are escalating tensions between the USA and China, that peace ought once again become part of our discourse.
What are your thoughts on these conflicts that are determining and defining our planet right now, sir?
Yes, very good question.
I'm very saddened to see war in Ukraine.
And as you say, this industrial military complex, which is kind of benefiting maybe perhaps, but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people suffering and destruction.
So I think, but politicians have forgotten how to be a statesman.
The diplomats have forgotten how to practice diplomacy, and religious leaders on all sides have forgotten how to practice religion and love.
This is why I've written this book, Radical Love.
Radical love, Russell, is when you are able to love even those you don't like and you don't agree.
And this is where I think Putin and Biden and Rishi Sunak and Zelensky, they all need to read my book and practice radical love and sit down together.
And I have a good solution for Ukraine situation.
Well, would you tell us it, please?
Because, as you say, it's quite a terrible conflict.
Terrible conflict and it's benefiting not anybody.
It's just and it's leading towards possibly a third world war because I mean what happened?
America could not win in Vietnam.
America could not win in Afghanistan.
Russia could not win in Afghanistan.
Winning these days of war is impossible.
So it will go on destroying and there's no win.
So what my solution for Ukraine is being like Switzerland.
Swiss model, where Switzerland did not go to First World War, did not go to Second World War, did not join NATO, did not join EU.
Independent, its own currency, its own system and a very neutral and trading with everybody.
So if Ukraine can say to Russia that there's no threat from you, from us, for you, there's no NATO, there's no EU, we are independent, we are neutral, like Switzerland, and Switzerland can be rich because they are neutral.
And Switzerland can be home for everybody.
International organizations.
It's the UN headquarters and many, many World Council of Churches.
Many international organizations go to Switzerland because it's neutral.
So Ukraine can be like Switzerland and be neutral and friend to Russia, friend to Europe, friend to everybody.
Have no enemy.
And I think Russia would like it.
Russia would say, yes, if you are neutral and not a member of NATO and not a member of EU and independent, trading with everybody, that's welcome.
It seems that eventually a solution of that type will have to be reached.
Currently, what appears to be driving the conflict is the set of interests that are most obviously going to benefit From the reconstruction of Ukraine, some of our investigations and investigations of others, which we have curated as part of our team, suggest that and it's publicly understood that BlackRock will be participating in the reconstruction of Ukraine.
Ukraine want to be 100% digital after this war.
And assurances that Ukraine could become a place of neutrality surely would make a difference, as well as providing, if there were anything like Switzerland, another potential venue for WEF to host their globalist events.
The problem, Satish, is that it feels like, in reality, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is about ...territorial and economic interests, not all of which are explicit.
And there is an attempt to reduce these conflicts to simple moral stories of, you know, Russian criminality and Putin's evil.
And radical love, I suppose, radical love, I mean, it's your book and you wrote it, but for me that suggests an acknowledgement, ultimately, of our fundamental Humanism, of our fundamental shared goals, of our fundamental unity.
But those ideas are not profitable.
Yeah, but those ideas have to be made at least popular, if not profitable.
And profitability is not the everything.
Humanity is not just about money and profit.
Humanity is about relationship, friendship, love, poetry, music, art, families.
There are many, many other important things which we need.
And therefore, if we end this idea that Russians are our enemies, Chinese are our enemies, And the separation.
We are one humanity.
We live on one planet Earth.
The whole cosmos is our country.
The entire planet is our home.
Nature is our nationality.
And love is our religion.
This is radical love.
Love is our religion.
Before we are Christians, Muslims, Hindus, we are humans.
And before we are Russians and Americans and Chinese, we are members of the planet Earth.
One planet home.
Unless you have this idea, this profitability, money, what has it led to us?
Global warming, climate change, wars, conflict, poverty, homelessness, even in America.
This profitability of America's number one economy has not solved any human problems.
So realists have failed utterly.
Therefore, give idealists a chance.
And I'm an idealist.
And my radical love book is a book of idealism, but realism is in idealism.
These current conflicts, systems, methods and modalities are, as you say Satish, a denial of our fundamental
spiritual nature.
I would agree. I have heard it said that it is ludicrous to apply these external labels and it becomes clear when
looking at a baby, that there is something ridiculous in saying that a baby is
Chinese or French, that you might as well say this baby is a Tottenham supporter.
A baby doesn't have those attributes. A baby in its evident abundance and evident connection defies these external
labels.
But increasingly we are governed in technological dictatorship Satish and I wonder what...
People are talking about artificial intelligence.
are on the dehumanizing effect of automation, surveillance and systems of
control like social credit scores which appear to be increasingly discussed and
more likely to be introduced in the next few years.
You know people are talking about artificial intelligence.
I say to them that human intelligence is not used enough. We have so much potential
to use human intelligence.
Now we are saying that farming will be done without farmers.
Factories and workplaces will be run without workers.
So Humans don't need to produce anything.
They don't need to work.
They need to just consume.
People, humans don't need to think because artificial intelligence will think for you.
So production will be made by factories.
Thinking will be done by artificial intelligence.
What is the place of humans?
Humans are irrelevant.
Only place of humans is to consume.
So we are no longer thinkers or activists, makers or artists.
We are just consumers.
And this is a nightmare, Russell.
This is a nightmare.
I would say technology should be in the service of humanity.
Technology should be a tool to help humans, not replace humans.
Not replace human thinking, but aid human thinking.
So technology as a servant of humanity is good.
Technology as a master of humanity and replacing humanity is a disastrous and bad technology.
So I want to challenge all the digital dictators that what are you doing is anti-human and anti-nature.
It's very beautiful and it reminds me of the analysis of the ego, that the ego is a good servant but a terrible master.
That when the persona, the set of ideas with which we most strongly identify dominate us, our lives become more materialistic, more wedded to transitory and ultimately temporal things.
It's interesting that you say that.
Satish, how can we immediately access a new connection?
What ought we do?
Ultimately, this is what I'm mindful of and this is what gives me most hope.
When we talk about geopolitical ideas, powerful institutions, the march of globalism, corporatism,
the military-industrial complex, the vast power of the technological state to spy on us and manipulate us,
I sometimes feel a sense of despair.
What can we do to reclaim our humanity today?
What can we do to reclaim our connection to our own spirit right now?
How do you practice this in your own life with a man who has an understanding of these traditions and has lived these traditions?
So they are not traditions, they are living practical modalities.
What can we do right now, sir?
We have to build grassroots movement.
And you are doing good work in that.
We have to say that ignore these kind of big centralized and technological big organizations.
Small is beautiful.
Small and elegant and simple is beautiful.
So we should, at the grassroots level, people should come together and say we are going to live a human life.
Technology as a servant, but human life.
And we are going to take a Hippocratic oath, the Hippocratic oath like Dr. State, do no harm, do no harm to nature, do no harm to other people, and do no harm to yourself.
If all of us practice that nonviolent Peaceful way of living, the Hippocratic oath, then that Hippocratic oath is oath to loyalty to nature and loyalty to humanity rather than loyalty to business and money and profit and governments and military.
Our loyalty has to shift at a grassroots level.
So let us create a movement of the hypocrite out. Everyone, you are a businessman or
woman or a politician or economist or a scientist, whoever you are, practice non-violence,
practice the hypocrite out, doing no harm. That is radical love.
It's very hard though Satish to live like that. It's very hard to live only in love.
All the great things are hard, Russell.
Climbing Mount Everest is hard.
Going around the world for two and a half years.
I went walking without any money for two and a half years through 15 countries.
8,000 miles.
That was hard, but that was the real experience.
So let's not worry about hardness.
What is good, we must practice, even if it is hard.
And we will overcome our difficulties.
Martin Luther King, who I met, went to prison for 29 times in his 10 years of activism.
Nelson Mandela was in jail for 27 years.
Mahatma Gandhi was in prison for 12 years.
So they were hardworking, great visionaries.
So we don't need to worry about hardness and difficulty.
We have to do what is the right thing to do, even though we have to sacrifice some comfort.
But in the interest of humanity and planet, we have to build a grassroots movement.
It would be no good if Gandhi had said, this is too hard going on this sort march.
It would have been no good if Martin Luther King had said, I can't do this million man march, it's too difficult.
If Malcolm X had said, standing up to the dominated culture is too difficult.
If Nelson Mandela said, I can't stay in this prison, it's too hard.
I'll do whatever you want.
What do I need to say?
You're right.
This is, I suppose, one of the challenges when you lose your connection to spirituality, which involves things like sacrifice, discipline, focus.
When everything becomes tethered to the external, when all of our personal validation, verification is externally sourced, we don't have the cojones no more.
We don't have the spiritual stones, the minerals to sort of go Right, I'm gonna suffer now.
I'm ready to suffer.
I don't like suffering Satish.
It's difficult, but I will do it now that you have commanded it on our show.
I think suffering will make us strong and resilient.
If you take a tree, A tree stands in the winter, in the snow, in the storm, out in the field as a stronger.
If you keep a tree in a greenhouse or in a conservatory all the time, the tree will not be strong.
So resilience comes when we suffer and we make sacrifice and I have suffered and made sacrifice in my life and I am much more strong for that.
So I would not worry about hardship.
What is the right thing to do?
We should do it.
And radical love, it's all about that.
When we practice radical love, then we are prepared to sacrifice because we depend on each other.
We become lovers.
We don't want to have lovers, but we become lovers.
And loving is hard.
You want to be loved.
You want somebody to love you.
But you don't want to love.
Loving is hard.
In loving you have to sacrifice your ego.
So we have to move from ego to eco.
Change one letter from G to C. Ego to eco.
And then You will become a lover, and that's a radical love.
I love you, Satish Kumar.
You're a very beautiful man.
Thank you for your time.
Satish's book, Radical Love, is available now.
There's a link in the description so you can get it.
Satish, I want you to come to Community this year, in the middle of July.
Our live festival with Wim Hof, with Vandana Shiva, so people can come together and practice and live these ideas.
If you want to join me, I'll be there.
You should see me.
I'm around everyone, like Willy Wonka.
I'm on it.
Come there.
Satish, will you come?
Will you be free, do you think, to come and join us?
Yes, I would love to come.
Yes, yes, I will look in my diary, but I think I am free, and I would love to come.
That sounds like an excuse.
Change one letter of the word diary, and it's dairy, and down the dairy, you've got to do what I say.
Okay, okay, I will do what you say.
I love you, Russell, and this is a radical love.
I radical love you too.
Satish Kumar thank you.
Radical love is to love without expectations, without criticism, without kind of complaining, without expectation.
Stop all expectations and love and then through participation you change Ukraine and wars and all these things.
Confrontation.
You can change that by love.
Putin has to be loved.
Only through love you can transform Putin.
Only through love you can transform Biden.
I know you're right.
I know you're right.
I know that if Gandhi, Malcolm X, if they were around they'd be like, we're going there.
We'll saw it out.
We're going to cuddle that.
We'll cuddle some scents into him.
We'll cuddle some scents into a lot of them.
One of his own old phones.
Yeah, call him up on one of his old little Putin yellow phones.
Satish, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for your time.
We will speak again soon.
My pleasure.
My pleasure.
Thank you for having me.
Thank you, sir.
I love you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Satish Kumar there, potential guest for Community, our annual festival where we come together to realise these things.
Yeah, the bit where he said, when you love people you don't have any expectations.
I think what he was saying is, I ain't coming to that.
I'm not definitely coming.
You can't tie me down.
Just clean if you go well.
Yeah, I just don't want a bad vibe in the interview.
It was lovely though, wasn't it?
Really nice.
Gave us a nice telling off towards the end.
It all points to localism, doesn't it?
And independence.
It does.
That's basically what he's saying.
Yeah, a lot of these people, they were ahead of the game.
People co-opted that movement.
Helena Norberg, Hodge, Vandana Shiva.
You should eat food that grows where you are, meet your needs wherever you can.
Gandhi even said that communities should be independent where possible.
All these systems of aggregation.
I think about siphoning off profit.
Once you create agriculture, of course you meet loads of food needs, but we all know about food wastage.
We all know how so many needs go unmet, possibly with the technology we have.
Well, there's an essay that I've got to read, actually.
Daniel Pinchbeck's always telling me to read it.
Oscar Wilde's essay, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, that technology could be used to create Utopias, where we have more time for contemplation, art, and leisure.
That all of these tools and technologies, in fact, could be used to create a fairer world, but we'd have to change spiritually.
As long as the most powerful institutions and interests and sort of almost systemic magnetism is directed towards selfish goals, as long as the emotional palette that it's drawn from is greed and selfishness, because a lot of that stuff can be distilled into it, it's unlikely that we'll create the utopias that are possible.
But what he was saying about things being hard as well, I thought it was really interesting.
You know, that's what we've been given.
We've been given comfort and convenience over freedom.
That's essentially, that's the bargain that we've made.
We've entered into that and we kind of forget that we have, but it seems like on the surface, all things are alright and we can get these things and, but that's what they've, that's what they've done.
It's a terrible bargain.
It's not a good bargain.
It's a terrible bargain that we have undertaken.
And so, you know, you get to a point where, like we were saying the other day about the pandemic and all these 30% of small businesses closing.
It doesn't actually work.
We kind of think it does because we've got this kind of supposed comfort and convenience that even in the pandemic, we could order this food that came in half an hour or whatever.
Yeah, I liked it.
Those businesses that were selling food were not local businesses.
No, they were not local businesses and the people delivering that food were not being paid fairly or correctly.
It's not right.
There is a cost.
One of our, we have a great guest on this show, I can't remember her name, that Amazon lady, James, do you remember her name?
She used to talk about the sort of invisible labour challenge.
Corrie Crider.
Yeah, Corrie Crider.
She was excellent.
She talked about the invisible costs of like big tech, how, in fact, we should get her on again soon, right?
Because she talked about like, You think of all these things as sort of frictionless.
Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon.
But actually, there is labour going on.
There's people toiling down mines.
There's people working in warehouses.
You know, that's why it was good to have Christian Smalls on, wasn't it?
The leader of the Amazon movement from America.
Because ultimately, human beings are going to have to come together.
And as you say, localise, collectivise, and that point of sacrifice you said the other day.
that you would be willing to change your diet if you knew, or pay more, if you can afford to,
if you know that it's fairly sourced, not in some bullshit kind of fair trade way.
I think people are at the point now where they see past the convenience
of being able to have access to any food you want at any time of year,
because they recognize that the costs that come with that, the cost to themselves, the cost to the people that make it.
And I think people are at the point where they'd say, I'll have like a quarter of that stuff,
as long as I know it's from local farmers, that people have been paid enough to do it.
And I really believe we're at a point where people will be willing to do that now.
Certainly enough people.
Certainly a significant number of people.
And we're talking to you.
It's you.
You can change.
We can change ourselves.
And I believe it was Rocky IV who said, if I can change and you can change, maybe the whole damn world can change.
And where did he say that?
Russia!
So there's hope for us all!
Damn it!
Uh, hey, on tomorrow's show we've got Callie Means talking about how he's taking on big food.
One of the great problems is the food that we are eating is good for the system that generates food, not good for the human body.
And if that weren't enough to radicalise you and wake you the hell up, Friday, Dr John Campbell, he of the overhead shot, who quietly, meticulously breaks down the data and has over the course of the pandemic gone from, hey, yeah, I guess, you know, the vaccine, that's good news, to Wait a minute!
But he's never done anything incendiary or silly because he's a doctor.
If you want to, you can... I'm getting a strike on YouTube.
Oh yeah, the WHO ain't having it, let me tell you.
Who set the guidelines on YouTube?
This stuff ain't nothing.
If the WHO, funded by Bill Gates significantly, are able to set the agenda for what's acceptable on YouTube, you're going to get tyranny.
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Every week me and Gareth do a show, Stay Connected, where we answer your questions.
Also, if you're on Locals, your comments I respond to, like Dawn1 saying, be here meow.
Bit silly, I know that's someone else's name.
Love you, love you, Gareth and Russ, Jack, Swiss, IE, me, don't be so dirty.
All you guys, we respond to you and we make a show where we show you what we get up to.
As well as weekly meditations, I'm going to do... Do you know what I'm going to do every week?
I'm going to do a meditation with someone who needs one.
First, I'm going to do it with my friend Mick the Ferret.
Now, Mick the Ferret has just had a heart operation.
I'm going to do a breathing exercise with him.
Then, I'm going to respond to people that are in the locals' communities, saying, like, you know, I've just had my heart broken.
I'll be on a Zoom call with them, and I'll do the meditation with them.
I'll go, right, come on, how are you feeling about your heartbreak?
Do a 10-minute meditation, then we'll release it.
What do you think about that, Gal?
Brilliant.
This ferret, it's got a name, has it?
It's not a real ferret.
It's Mick the Ferret.
He has ferrets.
He's not a ferret.
He's not doing a meditation with a ferret.
I misunderstood.
Ferrets are, by their nature, jittery.
You can't ever get them to relax.
It's impossible.
All they want to do is go kill a rabbit down a burrow.
It's a niche meditation, I would say.
Okay, you're a predatory little rodent.
Go down that burrow.
See yourself getting the rabbit by its neck and draining the life out of it, you little bastard.
Sign up to our community.
We get weekly meditations just in the manner I've just described.
I meant to tell you that, people in production.
I had that idea, but I've told you now.
And my live stand-up special will be up there soon.
We're editing it at the moment.
It's very funny, isn't it?
Yeah, lots of them.
Is it funny enough?
Yeah, it's great.
Could always want to be a bit more funny.
Some jokes for ferrets and stuff.
They'll love it.
Your new market.
Gotta get them little rodents rucking.
Are they rodents?
I'm pretty sure.
Not sure.
Is a ferret a rodent made their teeth keep growing?
I don't know what defines them anymore.
Okay, hey, that's it.
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Join us tomorrow.
Not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
And until then, stay free.
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