Russell Brand

Because bureaucracy is a kind of pose of managerialism and therefore neutrality.

We're just functionally doing what's necessary.

But it is dehumanizing by its nature.

By its nature, a bureaucracy strips away our humanity.

Anyone that's weighed on the now press three, four, now press two, or I'm unable to help you.

It's more than my job's worth.

We no longer have the ability to be in the flow of the living water interacting with one another.

You ought to see each other like human beings.

And they interact and like, you know, for good or for ill.

Like, you know, we've become dislocated.

When you're in a grocery store and like using the self-checkout and sometimes the few remaining folk that work there will direct you towards it.

Yeah.

Knowing that in a way they're signing their own sort of penury because in the end they won't be required.

We won't be required.

But perhaps it's no more significant than the identity that peasants had when working in agriculture yielded to the identity they had when working in industry to the identity we have as some new lanyard class propping up.

some AI counterfeit system of total control and centralized managerialism where your free will and your sovereignty and your connection to God are just inadvertent private secrets that you mutter in some corner somewhere, lest you should be like Daniel, politely disobedient, praying towards Jerusalem until the day...

All right, so that's how you felt going on to Pierce's show.

Well, how I felt was just confused because also I am a creature of Babylon.

I lived there a long time, a creature of Hollywood.

I've been on this merry-go-round a long time, it seems to me.