I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep disillusionment with politics and politicians, viewing them as untrustworthy and self-serving.
In this quote, Russell Brand articulates a sense of disenchantment with the political landscape, a feeling common among many people who perceive politicians as dishonorable and the political system as a vehicle for the interests of the wealthy elite. His sentiment captures a broader frustration with how politics operates, suggesting that it primarily serves to amplify the power of those who already have economic advantages, rather than representing the needs of the general population.
In practice
In a discussion about voter apathy, this quote can highlight the reasons behind people's reluctance to participate in elections.
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.
I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.
I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.
Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.
When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.
To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
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