#234 Civilisation and Censorship (with Paul Kingsnorth)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This week I’m joined by Paul Kingsnorth, a writer who lives in the West of Ireland. He is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. We chat about everything from big tech companies censoring peoples’ views, being "labeled” if you go against the media trend, and how movements and communities thrive. His attitudes and opinions on complex subjects are pretty exciting. More Info: Subscribe to Paul Kingsnorth’s Substack: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/ My meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is out now, only on Luminary. I release guided meditations every Wednesday. Please check it out: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. (*not a euphemism) Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This week I spoke with Paul Kingsnorth, a writer who
0:05.2	lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy editor of the Ecologist and Co-Founder of the
0:10.1	Dark Mountain Project. If you listen under the skin on Apple Podcasts, please leave us a review,
0:15.6	it helps more people find us and we love reading them out. In this part we talk about,
0:20.5	is there something mythic occurring in the world right now? Yeah, this is a kind of cultural
0:24.6	analysis you guys are going to enjoy and the decline of the west and the lack of a central binding
0:30.3	myth. As you know if you're a fan of Under the Skin these are the kind of themes that really
0:35.0	excite us. What is the deeper reality that we are not accessing? Trying to achieve equality with
0:40.8	the annihilation of category is not successful. That's exactly right. We're in this era where it turns
0:47.9	out we were never as fast. What's beneath the surface of people with my ideas that define our time,
0:55.9	the history we're told? Welcome to Russell Brand. Under the skin. One of the things I've discovered
1:03.2	and learning about is there a place for us? What are we now? Now that there is no, what is the home
1:09.4	for people that believe in freedom and recognise now that that rhetoric is being held in places that
1:16.2	we wouldn't usually have migrated towards? I'm speaking specifically of the political right and
1:23.0	libertarianism. Those of us that believe in social justice, egalitarianism, sharing, love,
1:31.7	decentralisation, but a need for regulation of big business. Who are we now? What do we believe in
1:37.6	post pandemic? What's happening to this fractured landscape? And if this takes you the whole
1:42.0	podcast to answer Paul, I'm happy to shut up. You want me to ask all those questions in order?
1:48.2	Or should we just dive in? It's a good question, isn't it? So the place to start is probably with
1:54.6	language actually. And I'm a writer primarily. And language is what I do. And language is what I like.
2:00.2	And the aim of a writer I think is to write the perfect sentence. If I could write the perfect
2:04.6	sentence, I'd die happy. I haven't managed it yet. But as well as writing about this,
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