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Originally Posted by 68style
He's been in this constant state for like 10 years.
I remember buying his Booky Wook and the one after and reading them on some 15 hr flights I was on... and I love some of his ideas and ideals but the pace of the books is absolutely frantic, he has a lot of self efficacy for sure and his way with words is second to none, he's quite a genius I think and articulates with the best of them... but he just can't quite bring his ideas across the finish line... in the end you're left with "Right then, let's not vote, the political system is broken, it needs to be replaced by something that puts people first... but I have no idea how to make that happen. Good luck everyone!"
Exhausting is a good word for it... I can't imagine spending time around that guy in real life for more than an hour I would just be so tired of him always just being ON all the time haha...
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I think the point is to get people talking about and brainstorming on these subjects, I think he makes a point of that in all his videos by saying he doesn't have the answers and he wants to know what you think
The point isn't to look to him for answers but to get people talking and thinking about subjects that they never do, and which the media never does
ppl look to the news for answers, but the news just provides a narrative that their bosses n their bosses want them to promote (fox vs cnn if u will), so the news isn't providing full service, just a partial service, and what I think Brand is trying to do is really just to drive ppl to start doing the rest of the work that the media doesn't provide, or at least get you to demand a better product
The only problems are is people are lazy, and they're watching the news when they're chilling out at home, they don't really want to get their thinking caps on, they just want to feel like they did, hence they're watching the news, instead of researching topics.
So they just soak up what they see on fox or cnn, and if you say hey wait u should be looking at cnn(if ur a fox guy), npr, substack, or getting a taste of foreign news outlets for their perspective, (let alone reading reports or watching lectures) you get pushback, and the lazier the person the more pushback you get
Brand is like that fitness coach trying to kick you into being more active, and he may seem extreme to some, probably bcuz he feels like he has to be to get ppl going, or maybe cuz he's a lil crazy too, but like that fitness coach, they aren't the answer, they're just trying to get you moving