Russell Brand, Alex Jones Discuss Spiritual Solutions to Materialism
Russell Brand describes his personal journey from drug addiction and Hollywood stardom to seeking a transcendent spiritual solution. Brand and Alex Jones discuss the limitations of material success and the necessity of personal sovereignty in the face of bureaucratic control. Brand references the influence of figures like Bill Hicks and David Icke on his worldview.
russell brand· alex jones· bill hicks· david icke· recovery· materialism· spirituality
00:00 While other networks lie to you about what's happening now, InfoWars tells you the truth about what's happening next. Visit InfoWars.com forward slash show and support the InfoWars. InfoWars, the most banned network in the world. The first part of life is about trying to escape from the conditions of birth, recognizing that there are material restrictions and then feeling maybe social and cultural roots
00:48 will provide a solution. Maybe if I become a star, if I have material means, if I can get myself to Hollywood, if I can become a stand-up comedian, if those things play out for me, maybe I'll be okay. But all the while as a drug addict, first of all, and then a recovering drug addict, recognizing there has to be a greater spiritual solution. And because I'm a drug addict in recovery, and because I'm from an ordinary background there in the UK, recognizing that there seem to be these systems of authority and control that you have to navigate and negotiate and deal with, even if these are simple little things like school and law and order and that they claim moral and ethical supremacy, but you see that perhaps they're being controlled by other ulterior or somehow transcendent systems.
01:34 Then, you know, for a minute the hedonism is enough, the drugs are enough, the promiscuity and the access to favors and delights and pleasures and distractions and prestige are enough. But because of that sort of spiritual yearning that any recovering drug addict or alcoholic will know, any seeker will know, there's a kind of sense that this is not it. This was never it. Of course success, personal individual success is never going to be enough. All the while amidst this I'm still occupying peripheral spaces as a person in recovery. I'm still educating myself with people like you and David Icke, listening to renegade voices, reading esoteric books,
02:13 looking at credible academic sources as well as people like you that suffer smears and condemnation and attacks that aren't perfect, that make mistakes, don't we all, damn it, and starting to aggregate and accumulate and curate my own purview that's like, hey, There's some sort of, there's a radical movement available. There's a radical movement available if you're brave enough to participate. I held up Bill Hicks' book for a moment while you were talking, not just because of the ongoing conspiracy theories that you are the risen ghost of Bill Hicks, but because he's such a great American voice, such a brilliant comedian, such an important and vital radical, such a brilliant evangelist and preacher. So first,
02:57 poverty, second infatuation with materialism and finally ultimately very slowly like the dumb person I surely must be the recognition, acknowledgement and awakening to the fact that if you are not able to tackle personal attachment, personal egotism, personal longing then you cannot be a servant of the many available causes but the one ultimate cause our vital fight for free speech, our vital fight for personal sovereignty, our vital fight to be able to create a marketplace of ideas that isn't brokered by bureaucratic forces that claim that they're there to help you, that ultimately seem to be there to control you. Thank you for the great work that you have done Alex Jones and the personal price that you have paid in ensuring that these spaces continue to exist.
03:49 But Russell, what I think you say is key. You've come from nowhere but a top Hollywood star, huge comedian, done everything, and now you've been turning for years against it. That's a message to people that feel like they can not only get success with the system, what I'm getting at is you're saying the system is broken and is gone, and now it's the exit is out of the system, and there's that kind of wild move away from it. But I think it's that process, though it's helter skelter, that's gonna take us to the next level. That's right, the system will ultimately choke you. The system will only favour you, adorn you and celebrate you as long as it can utilise and exploit you. For a moment it's easy, any person with an ego will think, wow my success is based on the fact that I'm fantastic in some way.
04:35 But it was a friend of mine who said that when you see yourself on a billboard on Sunset Boulevard promoting a movie and you see your name up in lights, you think for a moment you must be some real hot shit. Then you realize it's just the inadvertent side effect of someone else making money from you. At Real Alex Jones on X. An honor and a privilege to be here with you, the Great Info Wars audience, the Great Info Wars crew, on this Friday, June 21st, 2024, Alex Jones Show Transmission. And we are absolutely loaded. Let me just lay out what you can expect from today's show. We have more clips of Alex, so we're going to be hearing more from Alex throughout this broadcast.
