Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in.
Russell BrandI don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.
Russell BrandNormally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.
Russell BrandOf all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment โ you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the otherโs going, โI donโt actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.
Russell BrandOver the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.
Russell Brand