Our Survival Impulses Have Gone Awry

By Russell Brand, Russell Brand's Facebook Page

19 August 15

ur survival impulses have gone awry. We no longer live in an environment where fat and sugar, the only bits of a gateaux worth having, are scarce, they are abundant, our daft ol anachronistic brainbox doesn’t know that. That shouldn’t be a problem if you have a balanced life, as part of a supportive, if not loving, community, like our species was designed to live in. The moderation and regulation of these impulses is a challenge but not impossible. Unless you live in a culture that continually stimulates these lower, atavistic desires. The booze becomes a necessary anesthetic in conditions like these. The natural desire for sex will become distorted if we are abstracted from our social purpose, our reproductive function, our community values, let alone our interconnectedness. We are living in a zoo, or more accurately a farm, our collective consciousness, our individual consciousness is being hijacked by a power structure that needs us to remain atomised and disconnected. We want union, we want connection, we need it the way we need other forms of nutrition and denied it we delve into the lower impulses for sanctuary.
- from Revolution