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Russell Brand is right here...we should not discard specific people with specific illnesses. Life is the illness, all of humanity must be discarded!

This is an issue I'll listen to him on.

Also, he's looking more and more like a handsome hipster Jesus every day.

It does bug me how we listen when a celebrity says this. But there have been various politicians and scientists who have been arguing this for a long fucking time, probably longer than Russel Brand has been alive.

He's absolutely 100 percent correct, but it just bugs me that we'll listen to someone like him and not someone who has actually done the research.

>> ^VoodooV:

It does bug me how we listen when a celebrity says this. But there have been various politicians and scientists who have been arguing this for a long fucking time, probably longer than Russel Brand has been alive.
He's absolutely 100 percent correct, but it just bugs me that we'll listen to someone like him and not someone who has actually done the research.

Perhaps, but he does at least have personal experience with drug addiction and he is quite eloquent on the subject. If it bothers you that people pay him more attention because of his fame then it bothers me that people might discount his opinion for the same reason. He won't be the first celebrity to use their position to push some sort of social agenda, at the end of the day if you agree with his point of view then why so sour?

I thought I communicated my grievance well enough. I'm annoyed that we ignore actual scientists and people who have done the work, but suddenly we're all ears when a celebrity... not even a big celebrity.. says it.

I really dig this statement where he says "You need to offer them treatment, not simply out of some 'airy fairy let's all dance and hug' liberalism, but because it deals with the problem and it prevents further crimes from being committed."

Liberal logic can at times be very unrealistic and out of touch with reality. By distancing himself from liberal point of view and maintaining a personal perspective in the matter has made his arguments lot more convincing for me.

>> ^VoodooV:

It does bug me how we listen when a celebrity says this. But there have been various politicians and scientists who have been arguing this for a long fucking time, probably longer than Russel Brand has been alive.
He's absolutely 100 percent correct, but it just bugs me that we'll listen to someone like him and not someone who has actually done the research.


It sounds to me like he has done the research.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

>> ^VoodooV:
It does bug me how we listen when a celebrity says this. But there have been various politicians and scientists who have been arguing this for a long fucking time, probably longer than Russel Brand has been alive.
He's absolutely 100 percent correct, but it just bugs me that we'll listen to someone like him and not someone who has actually done the research.

It sounds to me like he has done the research.


I never said he didn't.

Just that he's a celebrity and that I'm annoyed that people listen to celebrities more than they listen to people who study this stuff for a living. I'm not sure why people aren't understanding me.

No problemu understanding your point from this end VoodooV(someones' confrontational to a fault), my sentiments when most celebs use their status for pulpit-time. The BONO EFFECT usually results in warm, gushy feelings for the celeb and a window of awareness that lasts as long as it takes for someone top steal the pie cooling on the ledge!

someone who's done the research is not a movie star. thus, great at research, poor at being a movie star.

The target audience for this obvious information, in general, are sheeply idiots, who will not listen to researchers, but may in fact be swayed by a movie star.

and movie stars generally speak well. typically much better than politicians and monotone scientists.

>> ^Yogi:

Russell Brand is right here...we should not discard specific people with specific illnesses. Life is the illness, all of humanity must be discarded!


And good use of ignoring the sarcasm button. I approve.

>> ^VoodooV:

[...] but it just bugs me that we'll listen to someone like him and not someone who has actually done the research.


Think about it- the job of the scientist is not necessarily to sell an idea- it is a to find it- likewise, the job of a politician should be to deal with the formalities (legal consequences, society framework) of said idea.
The job of a "POP-STAR" should hence theoretically be as a archetype citizen, i.e. to focus support/interest and ideally "playtest" or introduce models/ideas for society (that is why we are interested in them).

That is how it is supposed to work in a confetti unicorn way- something, we often forget.

As an example:
imagine Cristopher Walken explaining Stephen Hawking's theories.
imagine Justin Bieber educating the youth on globalism.
confetti and unicorns...