the Kafkaesque bureaucratic banalized invisible Dreadful we're here to help I'm afraid your
inquiry can't be heard this is diabolical Speaker 1: All right, this is funny. I think you like
this. It takes a lot to make Jordan Peterson say, whoa, this is some really weird stuff. This is
too much, even for me. But that's exactly what Russell Brand did. Now, we've already done deep
dives before into the whatever you might want to call it, Metamorphosis of Russell Brand into a
strange sort of conspiracy theory supporting, almost guru type figure that seems to have
sucked in people from left and right into thinking that he is truly the holder of so much unique and
important knowledge. Russell Brand, in the clip I'm about to play for you is, interviewing Jordan
Peterson. Or maybe Jordan Peterson is interviewing Russell Brand. Better said it does. You know,
with these things, it's often hard to tell because they're often just rants that pass each other like
two ships in the night. Russell Brand manages to confuse Jordan Peterson with a taste of his
own medicine. I'm going to play for you Russell Brand's rant, which would be exactly the sort of
thing that you would expect Jordan Peterson to do. Now, if you're not watching this, if you're only
listening. It is true that part of this is visual. The looks on Peterson's face as he is listening to
this bizarre rant. And by the way, we we see the word Kafkaesque up here. Russell Brand uses the
word Kafkaesque. What I would argue is Kafkaesque is this rant itself. Okay, so strap yourselves in.
If you're only listening, imagine a bewildered and perplexed look on the face of Jordan B Peterson.
Speaker 5: Is difficult to avoid. I feel Jordan is the sense that not only is there this you know,
and you. It's something you touched upon earlier. You said, no, it's not only force, you know, and
I sort of offered you the perhaps the benevolence that this force has issued. But what could be and
this is, of course, reductive and inadvertent side effect of, of Twitter tyranny. And please
be aware that I am apprized of the fact that the forms of tyranny the. Are emerging now,
apparently in opposition to these old school. Not to be repeated. Let's face it. Militaristic,
demagogic, populist, strongman forms of tyranny that we're being continually warned of are far
more terrifying. The Kafkaesque bureaucratic banner lies. Invisible, dreadful. We're here
to help. I'm afraid your inquiry can't be heard. This is diabolical. Huxley's hell terrifies me
even more than Orwell's. Although plainly we're in some amalgam with, beautiful gilding from Kafka
in the sort of unknowable quality. Where is the judge? What is the trial? Who's doing all this
stuff? And it seems to me that there must be, even if we all have to say it's about power, even if we
are asking, who is it? An internal struggle? Is it my power over my instincts and the expression
of those instincts in, in, in conjunction with culture that I might call self over time? Right.
There seems to be some other agent. There does indeed seem to be a serpent. They do indeed appear
to be fallen angels. They do indeed appear to be ulterior forces at work, for I am struck. But when
I was an emblem of this culture in my head, in ism, I was gloried and made much of all right.
Speaker 1: I remember to stop it. It brand comes off as a narcissist with a persecution complex,
increasingly focused on generating these elaborate expressions of his thoughts without communicating
any substantive idea. Now there's another similarity. When we talk about these sort of guru
like figures that are often followed, not because their opinions are so clear, but because their
opinions are completely the opposite of clear. One of the things we're seeing is a similarity in the
rantings of Jordan Peterson and Russell Brand. That's similarity number one. Similarity number
two is that their most devoted followers, at least until they realize that none of this stuff makes
any sense. When someone like me says this is not communicating substantive and concrete ideas or
giving you anything to achieve a meaningful result, this is just these are deliberately
ornate and elaborate musings of absolutely no meaning or value. The followers of these guys
will come to me and they'll say, David, you're not smart enough, you're not knowledgeable enough,
you're not intelligent enough to understand what it is that they are saying. That's a
classic. When you get into this guru cult world. And increasingly, Russell Brand is sort of a guru
cult type leader, sort of a hybrid between, like a trump and a tool psy gabber, where some people
remember they saw Tulsi Gabbard and this is the real leftist, this is the real. This is
who really knows what we need in this country. And so a lot of the defenders will say, David,
you're just not smart enough to understand the concrete and substantive ideas that Russell Brand
is communicating in this rant. Well, tell me what they are then. I would love to know what they are,
because he's doing something that is really common of these cult leaders and guru like figures. He's
using elaborate and verbose speech to, sort of mask the fact that there is extraordinarily
little substance here. Now, people wrote to me and said, David, this reeks of stimulant use
as well. I have absolutely no comment on that whatsoever. I'm just not familiar enough to
Russell with Russell Brand to know whether that that's a thing. And, and the other interesting
aspect to this is that Jordan Peterson, in his more psychological issue commentary,
will often talk about personality disorders. There are all sorts of Jordan Peterson lectures floating
around where he talks about personality disorders, and he so often ends up finding himself wrapped up
in conversation with people who seem to have many of those very same disorders, narcissistic traits.
Russell Brand and I won't list others, but you could probably guess who they are. And in those
cases, he's relegated to acting as though they're presenting novel and fascinating ideas with which
they can grapple substantively. So it's really wild stuff. This an entire kind of guru sort of
space, is is fascinating. And it's fascinating in part because the followers that they build up
and it could be Trump, could be Jordan Peterson, could be Russell Brand, it could be others. The
followers seem particularly susceptible, to this type of type of cultish thinking,
and defense of their glorious leaders until such time that they become disaffected by them.