“We have a trans-political ideology, it is not right it is not left it is about understanding. Before you can give any advice, any program about how to deal with the world, how to put the civil into civilization. How to gain influence on people. Before you can have that program, first you have to understand what is actually going on. How does the world actually work. How do human civilisation and institutions actually work. What are they doing? Because, any remedy must be based on what is actually happening in practice. Because, if it is not based on what is actually happening it is based on some kind of fantasy. And therefore any program or recommendation, any political ideology that comes out of that misunderstanding will itself be a misunderstanding.”
full transcription located here
[**note on a repeat post; today this raw video was on twitter. as the discussion is so obscured/overpowered by ambient noise i wanted to share the link to the transcription, which i only had saved in this tumblr. but when searching for the post, i found it had completely disappeared. hopefully this was due to a random glitch and not something nefarious…]
The spectacle of implicated governments trying to stifle WikiLeaks is futile and undignified; like watching a duplicitous Victorian widow struggling to keep a fart beneath her petticoats. Alas, the stink is out and cannot be chased back into the burrow by any amount of protest, lavender scent or coy blushing.
via newstatesman.com
I’ve always liked Russell.
Now I have a wholesome reason to like him. ;)
[unpolished] transcription here
“We have a trans-political ideology, it is not right it is not left it is about understanding. Before you can give any advice, any program about how to deal with the world, how to put the civil into civilization. How to gain influence on people. Before you can have that program, first you have to understand what is actually going on. How does the world actually work. How do human civilisation and institutions actually work. What are they doing? Because, any remedy must be based on what is actually happening in practice. Because, if it is not based on what is actually happening it is based on some kind of fantasy. And therefore any program or recommendation, any political ideology that comes out of that misunderstanding will itself be a misunderstanding.”
(Source: motherjones)
ABC & Phillippe Cousteau Jr. dive into the oil spill, examining how it looks and what it feels like under the surface.
