Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
Interpretation
This quote encourages individuals to resist societal pressures that suppress their true potential and uniqueness.
Russell Brand's quote calls on young people to reject the uncomfortable and stagnant nature of conformity imposed by society. He emphasizes the importance of fighting against this pressure, suggesting that by doing so, individuals can truly shine and showcase their unique talents and glory to the world. It is a passionate rallying cry for self-expression and authenticity in the face of societal norms.
In practice
A motivational speech at a school to encourage students to embrace their individuality.
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.
Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer's office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on.
To the people that have said I'm too small, I'm not fast enough, I don't have what it takes, I'm not strong enough. THANK YOU
Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.
The world belongs to the energetic.
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