The Three Brands
Dec. 28th, 2025 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Russell Brand the whacked out, rakehell comedian was brilliant, charismatic and horrid. I didn't like him but I was impressed.
Russell Brand the alternative media frontman, talking truth to power was someone I followed. I even bought one of his books.
Russell Brand the guy in the limo with the perma-grin who can't shut up about Jesus I find rebarbative. I mean, he's just so unEnglish.
What links the three? Excess, Narcissism, some sense that if this person wasn't in the spotlight he'd shrivel up and die.
But the switcheroos are so extreme that mainly I'm bewildered. They feed into my sense that our civilisation has become unmoored, fragmented, atomised. That it no longer feels real. Or serious. Or the least bit important.....
Russell Brand the alternative media frontman, talking truth to power was someone I followed. I even bought one of his books.
Russell Brand the guy in the limo with the perma-grin who can't shut up about Jesus I find rebarbative. I mean, he's just so unEnglish.
What links the three? Excess, Narcissism, some sense that if this person wasn't in the spotlight he'd shrivel up and die.
But the switcheroos are so extreme that mainly I'm bewildered. They feed into my sense that our civilisation has become unmoored, fragmented, atomised. That it no longer feels real. Or serious. Or the least bit important.....
