Russell Brand - the Messiah Complex, straight up.

Oh this is just too epic not to comment on this week.  His interview with Jeremy Paxman was aired on YouTube for the world to see and see they did.  At my first watch it was at 400k and now 2 days later it is over 4million.  Thanks to the help of social media but also to a major contributing factor, the content.

Throughout this interview RB kept not only his cool but his rational thought and bounced back from every question and joust that Paxman threw at him.  Not only did he do this but I do believe by the end of the interview he had Paxman questioning, based on Paxman's facial expression and body language, the garbage he had been listening to from politicians his entire career.

Russell put forward some great arguments about how we vote for people, people currently in politics who are not able to deal with the issues we have today.  Resolutions, debates and agendas that don't work for the people, it's just politicians doing what they know, politics.  RB made valid points that if we don't vote for anyone, or don't participate in the farce that has become global and national politics, we could through the means of social media and our new publishing abilities bring about a more utopian society.  Without giving an outline of how this would come about though as it is too complex to be contributed to by just one person.  But the resolution would involve a government capable, with efficient people, to provide a diplomatic way to implement the changes needed to see our growing societies flourish.  Through the management of social structures and environmental resolutions that make the everyday living easy and effective.

In our current voting structure we engage in a 'wary cooperation' which supports our sense of survival skills which our political parties currently align with for us.  With the appeal of the political outcomes which fulfils what we need to survive and succeed.  Though through the current dissatisfaction of the disproportionate advantage to some adds to the growing divide between those that can survive in today's world and those who are struggling.  It is because of this that the insight that RB offers of a time of change due.  And we are changing socially through what Clay Shirky's insight of collective intelligence, the pooling of intelligence and communal and civic value through our contribution of our free time, by creating social change through anyone with access to technology.  This could bring about the change in politics RB talks about in his interview, especially as social change takes the form of an organisation of generosity allowing us to create civic value.

It is through the medium of our new publishing technologies that this reality can be openly and broadly discussed and therefore a real possibility that this change could happen.  Though it may need a few evolutions as we are breaking through glass ceilings through exploring new technologies with more trust and openness than ever before.  So the changes within our politics will happen but at what pace, I am not really sure.