Envy & Russell Brand

Natalie Wynn of Contrapoints has a video called Envy looking at its relationship to lockdown virtue-signaling using examples from Squidward to Amadeus. I apply it to the cancelling of Russell Brand and embed an early video of mine responding to Russell's interviews of Jonathan Haidt and Darren Brown. I ask what's your go-to deadly sin and confess mine as envy. I use the hamsa, the eye in the hand, to show how we could ward off the evil eye by turning away negativity both within ourselves and against others--especially towards those on the other side of the political divide. I outline the "four dogma and one suspicion" that Russell and I share: 1) all people are equally good 2) when people behave badly, systems are to blame 3) systems can be changed 4) all communities are equally capable of self-governance and 5) entertaining the possibility that we are One Mind. I discuss a study that Darren quotes from Jonathan's book, The Righteous Mind. Jonathan quotes from William Gibson that the Matrix is our consensual hallucination and I express the hope that we can make it a good hallucination by seeing the best intentions in each other.

All of these provided with links, text and comment threads on https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/.
My book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607.