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00:00:00.000I'm a veteran, and I could never be a veteran on the streets.
00:00:25.000I'm a veteran, and I could never be a veteran on the streets.
00:00:33.000In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:00:45.000There you Awakening Wonders, thanks for joining me on Stay Free with Russell Brand exclusively on Rumble.
00:00:49.000I say exclusively, we're streaming right now on YouTube, but can that go on forever with the censorship industrial complex rising up like a mighty binary titan devouring all before it with its great fangs of censorship and I don't mean Lee Fang there, he's
00:01:03.000one of the reliable ones, him, Taibbi, Schellenberger, Barry Weiss, Greenwald, there are
00:01:07.000great journalists out there, let us know your personal favourites in the chat below, we love
00:01:11.000them all. If you're not watching this on Locals right now, watch us on Locals, you only have
00:01:15.000to press the red button like Ashella and Claude and Miles Driver, free to you better
00:01:19.000believe there's going to be free speech because free speech leads to more freedom. That's
00:01:24.000what I believe and I'm pretty damn sure my on-screen assistant Gareth Roy is of a like
00:01:29.000That's the way we see the world together and that's how we manage to just jog along talking
00:01:33.000about some of the stories that are defining our culture and defining our time.
00:01:38.000When we leave YouTube in a minute, and we love you, you 6.4 million Awakening Wonders, it's simply because we're going to discuss stories that we cannot openly discuss on this platform.
00:01:46.000For example, there's an inquiry going on in our country, the United Kingdom, about the COVID pandemic era.
00:01:52.000And measures that were taken that were ineffective with one scientist, in fact, the head of the scientific team that provided COVID guidance, admitting that the lockdowns were political rather than scientific.
00:02:03.000And I'm looking to Gareth now because he knows the law and he knows how draconian these measures can be.
00:02:08.000And we do not want a strike, baby, unless it's a global strike of the world's working people coming together in order to decentralise power and create new democracies.
00:02:16.000We're going to be talking about that story and Matt Hancock's testimony.
00:02:20.000A little bit later, but you'll have to join us on Rumble for that.
00:03:16.000He's also saying that basically this investigation where they were prevented from taking investigative measures that could have led to Joe Biden.
00:07:03.000Also, I think to that comment, the point to that comment there is that they do know through internet records that he was at Joe Biden's house when he sent that message.
00:07:37.000He's in Delaware, wrapped up in a blanket, giving a speech about corn pop somewhere at the side of a freeway, shouting at passing cars, corn pop!
00:07:54.000This is allegedly that he's used basically China to deal with a tax issue.
00:08:01.000It's just a kind of tax evasion issue that he evaded paying a portion of his taxes by moving his earnings from Burisma to a Chinese firm and then getting the money back through a loan and this is what one of the IRS whistleblowers has testified.
00:08:14.000So again, kind of murky, underhand, potentially legal, although... Do you know what I think?
00:08:21.000Whoever's running the IRS, poor they've been charged with the CIA and the FBI.
00:08:26.000They're always the ones, if you notice this, their investigations are always better.
00:08:29.000I mean it's almost hackneyed to observe that Al Capone was eventually, and not that I'm saying that the Biden's a crime family, I am not Saying that the Bidens are a crime family.
00:08:39.000But Capone was brought down because of tax matters.
00:08:42.000I say, put the head of the IRS in charge of the FBI.
00:09:31.000Bill Clinton, when did he ever pay for an airfare?
00:09:33.000He's always on the same plane, always free, always sitting up the front, always turns left on his way in, always first class, never coach for Bill.
00:14:15.000He's going to be a serious, serious martial arts practitioner.
00:14:19.000Even when I heard him explain what BJJ was, I felt a bit scared.
00:14:25.000Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art where you seek positions of dominance and then achieve submissions by breaking an arm or a leg or choking a person out.
00:14:33.000God, I'm actually a bit scared of that.
00:14:36.000I'm a bit scared of what's being said.
00:14:50.000Nevertheless, Friedman is training both Zuckerberg and Musk.
00:14:53.000And we're asking, and we're going to delve into this over the course of the week, was Elon Musk Is it his cage fight with Zuckerberg, which Lex Freeman
00:15:01.000does acknowledge here in his tweet that it's a sort of a bizarre carnivalesque sideshow, or is
00:16:09.000What kind of justice is there if there's no moral centre to this corrupt, hypocritical system?
00:16:15.000And how are we going to overcome our differences to confront it?
00:16:18.000That's something I'll be talking about later in the week in our Censorship Industrial Complex conversation with me, Schellenberger, and Tayibi.
00:16:23.000Special guest appearance from, oh, I can't even say.
00:16:28.000There's no way I'm announcing that on YouTube.
00:16:30.000Shall we get a bit deeper into what the EU are planning to do to make sure that social media sites are corralled and co-opted and controlled in the way that legacy media have been for a long time.
00:16:40.000The Twitter files revealed, thanks to Schellenberger, Barry Weiss and of course Matt Taibbi, that the deep state are involved in censoring even true information.
00:18:09.000Thierry Breton is some sort of EU pen-pusher-point-dexter-bureaucrat over at the EU.
00:18:15.000He's saying, he's honestly saying stuff like this, Gareth will read it to you in a minute, he's saying stuff like, you can run but you can't hide, you don't do what we tell you, we'll kick you up your nutbag, you see these, you'll get a knuckle sandwich, you ready for this, I'll take you down, I'll take you down to Chinatown.
00:18:55.000So yeah, he warned Elon Musk the platform cannot hide from obligations to censor content.
00:18:59.000You can run, but you can't hide, Britain threatened in a tweet.
00:19:02.000This followed France's digital minister, Jean-Noel Barraud, threatening Twitter also, saying, Twitter, if it repeatedly doesn't follow our rules, will be banned from the EU altogether.
00:19:55.000The DSA, the Digital Services Act, but essentially it's a way of creating legally binding laws to censor the internet.
00:20:03.000Ultimately, we've seen as emergency laws were passed during the pandemic to pass all sorts of things.
00:20:09.000We've seen how emergency laws are being passed during the Ukraine conflict at the moment, and now they're being used to essentially police the internet so that companies, exactly as you say, will be fined 6% of their global Uh, earnings, which is, uh, mass billions and billions of dollars, something that, um, you know, Elon can't afford to lose at this time.
00:21:47.000So misinformation, I think, has been a really tricky one because there are things that are kind of obviously false, that are maybe factual, but may not be harmful.
00:22:06.000Um, so it's like, all right, are you going to censor someone for just being wrong?
00:22:10.000It's, you know, if there's no kind of harm implication.
00:22:12.000It's like in retrospect, he's arrived at the place like that version of Mark Zuckerberg, surely at the time would have said, well, hang on.
00:22:20.000Surely we must allow there to be conversation and consensus achieved through consent, through conversation.
00:22:27.000And then ultimately legislation achieved through democracy.
00:22:31.000All these ideas are already out there in the space instead of what happened Was they defaulted to totalitarianism?
00:22:52.000Simultaneously, the idea that all human life is sacred was used, and indeed that's a principle that I actually agree with.
00:22:58.000However, you don't see that elsewhere in regulation, legislation, corporate practice, geopolitics.
00:23:03.000That's not a principle that seems to be in practice elsewhere.
00:23:06.000Then, they hurried towards a solution that was potentially profitable.
00:23:10.000I mean, RfK on our show on rumble had a take on this that's just I can't go into it I mean I could go into it now but you can watch it on rumble and he explains it better than I ever could so we found ourselves in a situation where true information was being censored and now even as these tech titans debate and question inquire reflect on whether or not they did the right thing new legislation is emerging that it won't even be a matter of choice they won't be asking people to censor information that's true or debatable they'll be telling them
00:23:41.000As our man Breton said elsewhere, we will enforce this law.
00:23:48.000Now, I don't remember ever voting for them.
00:23:50.000Now, Britain left the EU, which everyone says is a universally terrible, terrible decision, but I'm not a fan of these kind of bureaucratic bodies.
00:24:12.000And so you can essentially get to a position where if you're able to impose a fine on a company for not censoring the kind of things that you decide is disinformation, then they're going to do it, aren't they?
00:24:25.000And I think as Matt Taibbi pointed out, At that event, we're arriving at a point now where it's not just about what they're censoring of us, but what we're censoring of ourselves.
00:24:36.000We've got to a point now where we're so scared of free speech and what we can say and what the implications will be that we're now policing ourselves.
00:24:45.000At least in our community, people are fighting to remain free.
00:25:11.000Remember, this is just a little while ago.
00:25:13.000In our climate of amnesia, you're invited to forget this stuff.
00:25:16.000And meanwhile, it's not just the EU that are imposing these laws.
00:25:20.000The Five Eyes nations all have online censorship bills that impose economic penalties on platforms that will not toe the line, as well as this
00:25:34.000I mean just look at what talk your way through this like apparently friendly little graph of
00:25:39.000wonder, pause, fact check, react, challenge. Look at that, it all looks so sort of amenable, human,
00:25:44.000communicable, easy. Yeah look at it man. Again this is like the third stage to this.
00:25:49.000So we've already talked about the fact that social media will kind of police itself, will censor itself and censor its users.
00:25:56.000Then we're talking about policing ourselves, that we're so scared of saying anything that we start to police ourselves.
00:26:02.000And now this is essentially about snitching on other people.
00:26:05.000So the United Nations has taken to Twitter in a new campaign to battle speech that it finds objectionable Urging social media users to push back against hateful content and report offenders to the police and other authorities in extreme cases.
00:26:17.000We're getting to the point where it's like snitching on everyone else.
00:26:20.000Do you feel afraid to communicate freely?
00:26:23.000Do you feel that you're being censored?
00:28:02.000And I don't want anyone else imposing it on me.
00:28:05.000This is where you get into interesting moral arguments, because I've recognised over the years that I'm libertarian, except in so much as I do believe that we have a responsibility towards one another, that community is vital and we should take care of one another.
00:28:16.000I don't think the state should be imposing that, neither do I think we should live in economic conditions that allow corporate gargantuanism.
00:28:22.000But what I ultimately believe is I don't want anyone telling me what to do at all about anything.
00:28:27.000I don't want people telling me to wear a seatbelt.
00:28:29.000I don't want people telling me to do anything.
00:28:32.000Now, there's an interesting point where the conversation can become complex.
00:28:37.000For example, do you want the state or any authority interceding if you thought the life of a child was in danger?
00:28:43.000What if, God forbid, a child wasn't safe in their own home?
00:28:47.000At what point do you start thinking, oh yeah, I suppose you do need the ability to intervene, because wouldn't you intervene to protect a child?
00:28:54.000I mean, what, are we to become some vigilante mob of renegades?
00:28:58.000I do believe that one of the solutions is decentralisation.
00:29:00.000That many of the problems we face are the problems of scale.
00:29:03.000When you have communities of hundreds of millions, 50 million, 60 million, you try to create a centralised ideology and then ask everyone to live by it, and it simply doesn't work.
00:29:11.000If we lived in communities and tribes, of course there's going to be crime, of course there's going to be flaws and fallibility, and even, I suppose, forms of abuse.
00:29:18.000But the community and tribe can deal with that through their own systems of judiciary, their own systems of law, custom.
00:29:25.000That's, I guess, what I'm working towards.
00:29:27.000Yeah, I also think, you know, your example then of protecting a child, your point earlier about whether or not this is about protecting us or controlling us.
00:29:34.000I think we were talking earlier about you saying that it's about where this is heading towards.
00:29:40.000It's not necessarily about where we are now, about controlling disinformation at this point because of how, you know, Disinformation can be so, I don't know, how it can affect us negatively.
00:29:52.000When someone says something actually hateful or something that's untrue.
00:29:55.000But it's about where they're noticing how the online space is growing.
00:30:00.000And as we've talked about RFK saying that this election will be the first one won via podcasts and independent media.
00:30:07.000You've got to wonder if the shutting down of platforms, the censoring of social media
00:30:11.000sites is not about, oh, it's about hate speech and controlling people being mean to each
00:30:16.000other, but where this is all leading to.
00:30:49.000It's one where we've explored, isn't it, mate?
00:30:51.000Of course, you know, it is by letter of the law, not legal for Trump to share classified
00:30:55.000documents, but we both believe that some plans are important.
00:30:58.000They were speculating on Fox yesterday that he leaked it himself.
00:31:02.000So basically to kind of exonerate himself and to kind of say, look, I was right all along, which would be a mad move if that spot's discovered.
00:31:29.000I think he was allowed to see it when he was president.
00:31:30.000It's like he's nicked it and showing other people.
00:31:33.000Our general perspective is that the contents of the box are more significant than the fact that the box's contents have been linked.
00:31:40.000Hit the red button, join us on Rumble.
00:31:42.000There's a fantastic conversation going on.
00:31:44.000People talking about child abductions that are going on.
00:31:47.000People talking about state intervention when it comes to children.
00:31:50.000I know when it comes to my kids, I don't want anyone involved in their morality or their ethics.
00:31:55.000But I don't want to be involved in anyone else's kids' morality and ethics.
00:31:59.000It seems to me like it's a self-regulating system where most of us just want to be left alone and are willing to accept that we have to leave other people alone as part of the bargain.
00:32:08.000The problem comes when your morality and ethics are about what other people are doing.
00:32:26.000Well, I think it's amazing that his content is getting removed from YouTube when he's talking about things like changes to society, changes to the Democrat Party, changes to all sorts of structures.
00:32:38.000When he's not implicitly kind of talking about vaccines, the thing that they can always like get him on because it contravenes WHO guidelines, but still things are getting removed.
00:32:47.000He's obviously threatening the establishment.
00:32:50.000We have a position now where one presidential candidate in the form of Donald Trump is being threatened with indictment, hounded and harangued.
00:33:00.000You have RFK, who's campaigning for presidency within a Democrat party, being censored.
00:33:05.000I mean, that, a few years ago, you would think that that wouldn't be possible, wouldn't you?
00:33:09.000You think you can't censor a presidential candidate from within the Democratic Party.
00:33:13.000But at least with Trump, you can say, well, if this is a, you know, legally, if he has done something that is, whether it's right or wrong, You know, legally.
00:34:02.000We're a right little bunch of darlings over there on Locals.
00:34:05.000It's a great self-regulating community where free speech is used to inspire open debate and conversation, where we're free to critique establishment narratives and the establishment themselves.
00:35:02.000And there's an amazing report that we have from Britain in 1971 where a woman is sent to pinch men's bums, posterior's asses, in the interest of sexual equality.
00:35:14.000But this is an important day because on this very day, 52 sweet years of our Lord ago, Elon Musk emerged either by caesarean section or from the reproductive orifice of his mother, Mrs. Musk, Who doesn't want him to fight, apparently?
00:37:14.000That's one of the things that we kind of mean.
00:37:16.000Like, when RFK is presented as an extreme figure, and Trump is presented as an extreme figure, you feel like it's extremeness itself is being amplified as a concept.
00:37:26.000I remember we used to all just be out chatting to each other.
00:38:19.000And then I got back to my dressing room and I was explaining to someone, oh man, Oprah Winfrey, I just see her directing the show with no shoes on.
00:38:25.000And then she just swung open the door of the dressing room and came in and I was talking about her.
00:38:29.000And I wasn't saying anything disrespectful, but I was talking about her.
00:38:32.000But you know, I thought, oh, I'm not going to act like I wasn't talking about her.
00:38:37.000I was just talking about you there, saying how I saw you directing the show from the gallery, and I just watched her, as I've seen with many powerful famous people before, sort of shut herself down from me.
00:38:55.000But since then, actually, I have been on one of Oprah's shows talking about addiction and all that, getting better with her, so that's all good.
00:39:57.000Join us on Gut Bucket, the only social media site you can trust.
00:40:01.000You better copyright patent that name right now says I own it because I want to be in the background like if he's gonna be Musk I'm gonna be Bill Gates silently running things.
00:40:15.000I thought it was just an holiday Alright, so let's have a look at all the news.
00:40:19.000Now, those of you that think that the UFO stuff's a distraction, check out how the news used to speak about it in 1997.
00:40:25.000This is on ABC or one of your mainstream news channels.
00:40:28.000They're like, some nutjobs think UFOs are real!
00:40:30.000And they're totally carrying the propaganda around Roswell, which I've heard off the record from a very credible journalist, was a total, legit incident that live and dead extraterrestrials were recovered from that incident.
00:40:44.000The diplomatic relationships began at that time between the United... I mean, I know that's pretty out there stuff.
00:40:49.000But anyway... Well, it's not out there if you're going to take these whistleblowers at their word at the moment.
00:40:54.000Those whistleblowers... Them tell the truthio, do you think?
00:40:57.000Have you ever known there'd be so many whistleblowers?
00:43:34.000Do you know as well, at the time, if you guys check this out, like there was a sort of a local news report at the time going, some aliens have landed in Roswell and we have greeted them and they're a great bunch of guys!
00:43:45.000There's a spaceship, look it's over there!
00:43:48.000I thought that off, like Building 7 style.
00:43:51.000Like I just went, oh yeah, it's a weather balloon, I don't know.
00:43:54.000What was that you were saying yesterday?
00:44:14.000These silvery devices, it said, were actually radar reflectors from a secret project in 1947.
00:44:20.000And these were not aliens, but dummies.
00:44:23.000Made all this stuff in the 50s and 60s, though, innit?
00:44:25.000Like, in the 1940s, like, you know, they've clearly gone, oh, look, like, the one bit in this bit coming up in a second, they say they put the mannequins in body bags.
00:45:28.000This guy sounds like, well listen, it's time compression, which for me sounds more amazing than aliens if you can compress time, that's pretty crazy.
00:45:35.000Towards the end of it though, there's a really crazy bit where he goes, is this true?
00:47:46.000That's Bad Graphics, Jack, telling you that on Friday we have got an exclusive Matt Taibbi and Schellenberger explaining how we will defeat the censorship in Dutch Recommendation.
00:48:17.000It's such an exclusive that if we actually don't ruin it, like you know often we ruin it because I nearly have Elon Musk on then I send him a mad text and delays it for a month and he goes on.
00:48:57.000It's not Her Majesty's... You think that we would conduct some ceremony to rise up Elizabeth Vagina's ghost to pull it up out of the grave using cosmic mojo and voodoo?
00:49:12.000Rise up Queen Elizabeth's ghost to bring her... I would do it if I could.
00:49:23.000All that pretending, all that dressing up, now you know there's an afterlife and material gain in this life is meaningless.
00:49:29.000It was beautiful the way you surrendered yourself to a living symbol, but in the end it did set up a lot of hierarchical systems that needed deep investigation.
00:50:14.000Get ready for the best, because have you wondered what Jungian archetypes are being evoked?
00:50:20.000Have you wondered whether or not this is a story of inequality in itself?
00:50:24.000Have you wondered if the Titanic is being called upon, risen up as a great living metaphor, because that was the end of a particular industrial age?
00:50:33.000And are we now on the precipice of a new order?
00:50:36.000All of the hubris around the Titanic precipitated World Wars 1 and 2.
00:51:01.000Is this a foreboding and ominous warning about what happens when that which is at depth is brought back to the surface, even in our imagination?
00:51:10.000Or is it just a distraction from all the corruption?
00:51:16.000I'm fascinated by the Titan substory for these reasons.
00:51:19.000If indeed there is a collective consciousness that we all participate in, what does it mean when there is a renewed interest in the Titanic?
00:51:26.000The Titanic of course represented the zenith of industrial achievement at the time that it was built.
00:51:32.000The largest moving object ever made by the hand of man in all history.
00:51:37.000It's been a news story at the time it was launched.
00:51:41.000It was a news story when the Titanic movie became one of the biggest cultural artifacts of the time.
00:51:45.000And now the Titanic is back in the collective imagination because of new technology that allows us to make 3D models and technology that evidently does not allow us to go thousands and thousands of fathoms deep to investigate.
00:51:57.000Why, once again, is it billionaires and economic achievement that is defining our culture and defining our age?
00:52:03.000What does it mean when at this time of universal chaos, UFOs, billionaires fighting one another, new peculiar mysterious wars.
00:52:13.000What does it mean when we go down to the depths and try to bring up the past?
00:52:17.000What does it tell us that billionaires are able to go on expeditions that are, let's face it, indulgent, and I mean that with all due respect to those that have lost their lives, when there is so much poverty elsewhere?
00:52:27.000Is there a kind of unconscious meaning that can be gleaned from this extraordinary story?
00:52:34.000New details coming in about the investigation into the Titan sub-disaster.
00:52:38.000The Canadian ship that launched the doomed vessel returning to port in Newfoundland with flags at half-mast.
00:52:44.000Oceangate's CEO stalked in rush among the five people killed in the catastrophic implosion.
00:52:50.000Human beings have always had an aspect of our shared culture that's about intrepid investigation.
00:52:56.000Down into the very depths of the sea, where potentially extraterrestrials lurk, we now learn.
00:53:01.000Out into the outer reaches of space, the highest mountain peaks.
00:53:04.000It used to be how we defined our culture, through excellence, expertise and shared intrepid adventure.
00:53:11.000Now, of course, this is the preserve of a particular economic class.
00:53:15.000The idea that Together we're going to explore space is ridiculous because our whole culture is undergirded by economic models that require hierarchies and privilege and seem to me to be marching relentlessly towards a state where there is centralized power and the rest of us become somewhere between an automaton and a blob constantly engaged by our tech expressing ourselves through consuming no meaningful democratic power or communal power at all.
00:53:42.000The reason this story interests me is because of the narrative of the Titanic At its time, it represented power.
00:53:50.000And those that have gone down out of hubris and curiosity to investigate it, a luxury and a privilege, they have curiously been claimed by it, added to those that died at the time.
00:54:01.000What is it that the Titanic represents in the ongoing myth of our culture?
00:54:06.000What is this great sepulture that lays at the deep, this tomb, this ongoing tomb, that seems to be denying even contemporary experts from investigating it further?
00:54:17.000I'm not saying that this is a rationally accurate analysis, I'm saying that this is what can be mythically drawn from it.
00:54:23.000Loads of you watching this now think, I don't care what happens to a bunch of billionaires that can just afford to pay 250 grand to go and explore the deep.
00:54:30.000Loads of you I know, let me know in the chat in the comments, will be saying this is just a distraction from important stuff that's going on with the Biden administration, the charge to hunt a Biden.
00:54:38.000And potentially those things are true as well.
00:54:40.000But surely you've noticed that our global culture seems to be extraordinary.
00:54:44.000Isn't this story part of an odd new collection, a new menagerie of mad stories about exploration, weird cage fights, peculiar wars, UFOs?
00:54:56.000Have you looked at the raft of stories that are being released lately?
00:54:59.000Is it possible that something seismic just below the surface is taking place?
00:55:04.000All five passengers on board instantly killed in a catastrophic implosion.
00:55:09.000Authorities also hoping to recover audio recordings.
00:55:12.000They say investigations typically take anywhere from 18 months to two years.
00:55:16.000I mean, it's odd because now there's got to be another set of investigations into an extraordinary event that wasn't really meant to yield anything other than pleasure.
00:55:35.000In a way, this is the perfect story that shows you how, even though we're living in an increasingly globalist culture, it's defined by very peculiarly diverse and varied interests.
00:55:45.000Where you might have one part of the earth defined by famine and poverty, where you might find that your democracy is falling apart, that you don't have any meaningful political alternatives because both of the dominant parties are basically the same, while you're not invited to vote on whether you're going to be locked down in a pandemic or whether a new war should be embarked on or whether gain-of-function research should happen or whether or not you think it's wise to engage China in a war, the eyes of the world are on this.
00:56:10.000The resources of the world are on this.
00:56:12.000Isn't it an interesting diagnostic tool that tells us that there is something wrong under the depths?
00:56:18.000In dream analysis, the ocean represents the unconscious.
00:56:21.000Something like the Titanic, a vessel that we're all aware of, represents some kind of grail, some kind of quest, something that we're all looking for.
00:56:30.000And really, what's a more important pursuit?
00:56:33.000Going down to explore the Titanic out of mere curiosity?
00:56:36.000Or coming up with new and radical solutions for how we might live together as a culture when it appears that there are social, ecological, political, economic, militaristic disasters on the horizon in almost every direction in an unprecedented way?
00:56:49.000I know you would have progressives say, Why 80 years ago it was the second world war and hundreds of years ago people used to live outside sucking on a pig's teat to survive.
00:56:58.000I recognize there are aspects of civilized culture that are extremely beneficial but clearly we're still looking for something and we're not going to find it at the bottom of the sea.
00:57:09.000Now the world of exploration takes a breath, as difficult decisions remain about a potential recovery mission to the bottom of the Atlantic.
00:57:16.000A place known for tragedy, now fresh for five more families.
00:57:20.000And I suppose that's the brutal truth.
00:57:22.000There are five families now grieving needlessly because of this expedition.
00:57:27.000Let's have a look at some analysis from elsewhere.
00:57:29.000First of all, certain painful but telling historical ironies come to mind.
00:57:33.000There are similarities now played out on a miniature scale between the sinking of the original RMS Titanic and its present-day shadow, the Titan.
00:57:40.000There were prominent wealthy victims of the 1912 disaster, too, including John Jacob Astor IV, business magnate and the richest individual aboard the doomed ship, and Pennsylvania Railroad executive John Thayer.
00:57:53.000This time, like the time when the Titanic was launched and sank, is a time that's, in a way, defined by a sense that we're at the periphery of new exploration.
00:58:02.000At that point, industry had brought about great, miraculous ventures like the Titanic herself.
00:58:10.000And similarly, perhaps, we have new warnings because the Titanic went down just before the First World War, quickly followed by the Second World War.
00:58:17.000Now we stand on the precipice of all this potentially new and miraculous technology But many of us, and let me know if you agree with this in the comments, sense that there is a foreboding, an eeriness to our time, a weirdness, a strangeness that suggests that we need to awaken from a kind of peculiar illusion.
00:58:35.000And imagine what was heralded by the sinking of the Titanic.
00:58:38.000Imagine if we could have stepped back from that time and said, all of this industry, all of this exploration, all of this ambition is going to lead to massive conflagration and the loss of millions of lives in those two world wars across Europe, across the entire world, of course.
00:58:51.000Are we similarly now at an axis point where we need to step back and take a review of the direction we're heading in?
00:58:59.000The 1912 sink in and enormous death toll, as various investigations have shown, were entirely avoidable.
00:59:04.000They were the combined product of corporate profit hunger, ill-conceived plans, countless errors and simple stupidity.
00:59:10.000Likewise, there seems reason to believe that Oceangate's activities merit scrutiny.
00:59:14.000In 2018, the company's director of marine operations, David Lockridge, presented what's described in the media as a scathing quality control report to senior management, including CEO Stockton Rush, and was fired for his efforts.
00:59:27.000Lockridge prefaced his report by insisting that it was time to properly address items that may pose a safety risk to personnel and that numerous issues pose serious safety concerns.
00:59:36.000And there are the appalling matters involving the rescue efforts.
00:59:39.000Famously, the Titanic carried only 20 lifeboats, able in theory to accommodate 1,778 people, a little over half the 2,200 people on board, and many of those put to sea only half filled.
00:59:50.000You know all those guys dancing downstairs?
00:59:56.000Even if the submersible Titan had been located, efforts to save lives would have been hindered by the fact that virtually no rescuing capabilities presently exist, at least in government hands.
01:00:06.000A Forbes comment points out astonishingly that as the global market for extreme tourist adventures has emerged, submarine rescue has now become a largely privatized endeavor and most governments have little to offer the missing mariners if they are trapped underwater.
01:00:19.000The decline in America's rescue capabilities has been dramatic.
01:00:23.000In 1960, the US Navy boasted nine dedicated submarine rescue ships and two fleet tugs fitted out for undersea rescue work.
01:00:30.000Today, the service lacks a single dedicated undersea rescue vessel.
01:00:33.000Once, the pursuit of space travel and moon missions captivated the attention of the globe.
01:00:38.000Now, it is the private enterprise of billionaires like Bezos that take us to the moon.
01:00:43.000Figures like Elon Musk and Zuckerberg have now in the public imagination replaced figures that seemed before to represent a nation.
01:00:50.000Perhaps one thing this alludes to is we may still have national pride and a connection to our flags and our nations, but increasingly there is nothing behind it.
01:00:59.000When it comes to it, Private enterprise has come in and taken away the power that would once have been the source of a nation's pride.
01:01:06.000Think even and significantly of military spending in the country of the United States of America.
01:01:10.000We know, of course, that 50% of it goes straight to private companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc.
01:01:15.000And that the Pentagon, once the home of the American military, can't even pass an audit.
01:01:21.000That there's extraordinary anomalies in their accountancy and expenditure.
01:01:24.000Sometimes I wonder if this new entrepreneurial, intrepid spirit of endeavor is an indication that the age of the nation is over.
01:01:33.000Let me know if you agree in the comments.
01:01:35.000Once again, America's vast military, security, and anti-terror apparatus only proves capable of ending lives, not saving them.
01:01:42.000That's an interesting diagnosis, and it shows us where we stand.
01:01:45.000There is the capacity to expand through war, but there is not the capacity to protect.
01:01:56.000Designing to see the five individuals alive and well does not signify approving of their foolhardy adventures.
01:02:01.000All too often, individuals with too much money, too much time on their hands, two little brains in their heads, and ugly, overwhelming hubris put their own and other people's lives at risk.
01:02:09.000New York City is still full of buildings that bear the names of Rockefeller and Carnegie.
01:02:13.000Those were the great emblems of that age.
01:02:16.000The 1980s, once again we saw people exploring the skies, hot air balloon races, fast cars, land speed records.
01:02:23.000Always the pursuit of excellence is used to justify extreme wealth and disproportionate power.
01:02:30.000But the fact that these ventures are starting to fail now suggests to me we're at a point where we need to examine our paradigm more heartily, more thoroughly.
01:02:39.000This is a time where we need to be diving down to the depths of our social models and seeing what fallen sunk wreckages lie there that we are still allowing to define our time instead of moving boldly forward to new models.
01:02:51.000This summer Virgin Galactic will finally start flying paying customers to the edge of space in the company's rocket-powered plane, Spaceship Two.
01:02:59.000The first flight, a mission named Galactic 01, will launch as soon as June 27.
01:03:03.000Customers pay between 250 grand and 450 grand apiece.
01:03:07.000I do think that when on one part of the planet you have ludicrous, hubristic, explorative trips like that, and elsewhere there's just chaos and suffering and Penury and poverty is telling us something.
01:03:20.000Don't you agree that it's somehow ridiculous that, on one level, we are all here on this planet, that we should be, through consensus and democracy, creating systems, ideals and goals that are a reflection of all of us, not just Marx, privilege and extreme elitism.
01:03:36.000That seems to be an indicator that something is very wrong.
01:03:39.000The question of class intrudes in both tragedies like a knife blade.
01:03:42.000Of the approximately 709 Titanic passengers in third or steerage class, an estimated 537 died.
01:03:52.000Some 80% of male third-class passengers perished, while only 3% of first-class women suffered that fate.
01:03:59.000As has been well documented, steerage passengers on board the Titanic were confined to their area in the lower decks by grilled gates, some of which were never unlocked as the ship filled with water.
01:04:07.000If a culture collectively chooses a story as a metaphor, it means it has resonance in it.
01:04:12.000Why is everyone fascinated by the Titanic?
01:04:22.000Let's find that thing that Leonardo DiCaprio dropped.
01:04:24.000Not just that, there's power in it somehow, there's something mesmeric and intriguing, and that kind of data helps you understand that.
01:04:30.000Because in the microcosm of the vessel itself, it shows you you live in an unequal society, and in the event that even a ship sinks, you are not bonded by the fact that you're all on the same ship, because some lives are more valuable than others.
01:04:44.000So part of the energy behind this Titan submersive story is our awareness That these people were representatives of a particular economic class and their pursuit to go fathoms deep in order to sort of go on a deep aquatic safari has led to death.
01:05:01.000Of course that's really bad and really sad and all lives are valuable and I'm not the kind of person who gets off on death.
01:05:16.000111 years later, class divisions have reached an even higher and more malignant stage.
01:05:21.000It has now become a tailing fact of two distinct vessels, the Titan on the one hand, and the fishing boat that sank on June 13th in the Mediterranean, killing hundreds of desperate refugees on the other.
01:05:31.000Now, I know a lot of you will say, oh, refugees coming over here and all of that, and you're quite reluctant to take on board those kind of narratives.
01:05:38.000But my personal feeling is people that are willing to get on boats and risk their lives are frightened and desperate.
01:05:44.000And it's worth looking at the relative values of those lives.
01:06:06.000You notice it in a crisis because suddenly there's drama and allure and intrigue and a little maelstrom of energy that's easy for us to observe because it seems to step out of the norm.
01:06:31.000Let me know in the comments, because I'm here to learn as well.
01:06:33.000Their mass flight has largely been precipitated by the imperialist wars and other operations carried out by Western powers, the very regimes now presiding over their deaths at sea.
01:06:42.000If your own government's actions have somehow precipitated a refugee crisis, either through war in order to pursue resources or some other political action in those territories, then when does the point come where we start to recognise, hang on a minute, we've got more in common with the people fleeing those nations than we do that thin slender thread of elite interest that are causing those wars.
01:07:05.000Isn't it a necessity, you tell me, for us to all come together in sympathy and compassion and recognize that whilst it's not fair that some of our taxes is spent on helping and feeding displaced people, it's even less fair that the majority of our taxes go to elite interests like the military-industrial complex, subsidies offered to big energy firms, subsidies offered to big agri, subsidies offered to big food.
01:07:33.000We know that these kind of extreme tourist trips are enjoyed by a particular class of people.
01:07:39.000Now, is it that they earned that money in a hustle bustle, social Darwinism, concrete jungle of capitalism free market competition?
01:07:48.000Or are there other rules that are less obvious to observe that we maybe have to go a little deeper and investigate in our own little submarine?
01:07:56.000Amazon, a trillion-dollar company, has received at least $5 billion in US-based tax breaks and other subsidies.
01:08:16.0005 billion in tax breaks, cock rocket expeditions.
01:08:20.000I know that there is more complexity than that, but those things I've said are all true.
01:08:25.000Offering tax breaks and incentives to attract businesses, common practice for state and city governments, politicians want thriving local economies and jobs for their communities.
01:08:32.000In the US, these kind of subsidies amount to at least 30 billion dollars annually.
01:08:36.000But recent research from Princeton didn't find strong evidence that company-specific tax incentives increase broader economic growth.
01:09:14.000Watch out for a system that doesn't acknowledge the fact that while we're all on the same vessel, some people are in steerage and others are in first class.
01:09:23.000And it makes a big, big difference if the ship should ever go down.