Stay Free - Russel Brand - WE’RE BACK! The Fight for Freedom Starts NOW - SF645

00:00:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand and Russell Russell Brand trying to bring real journalism to the American people.

00:00:17.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.

00:00:18.000 Thank you for joining me for a brand new era of stay free with Russell Brand.

00:00:22.000 We've taken some time off.

00:00:23.000 Why?

00:00:24.000 Well, look around you.

00:00:24.000 Look how crazy the world is.

00:00:26.000 Look at how difficult it is to orient yourself these days.

00:00:29.000 A spiritual awakening is definitely unfolding.

00:00:32.000 You are a participant in it.

00:00:34.000 Today's show is going to be beautiful and glorious.

00:00:36.000 How do I know that?

00:00:37.000 Because I've pre-taped three videos that I know that you're going to enjoy.

00:00:40.000 It's a deeper look at three of the stories around which you can understand and diagnose many of the problems that are challenging you today.

00:00:49.000 Firstly, carbon scores.

00:00:51.000 In my country, the UK, which you'll be well aware now, is fully immersive, total 360 snow globe of observation, surveillance, and control.

00:01:00.000 Carbon scores are being introduced so that every aspect of your life can be measured and turned into a metric.

00:01:05.000 I first became aware of the story when friend of the show, Andrew Bidder Andrew Bridgen, excuse me, a former MP, posted that a sandwich that he had acquired had a discrete score on the corner saying this is 8% of your carbon allowance.

00:01:19.000 This, I realized, along with the support of many other people, including people on our team, is the beginning of a social credit score system that will mean that every purchase you make will bear the mark.

00:01:29.000 How long is it before we bear the marks ourselves on our foreheads, on our foreheads, or on our right hands?

00:01:36.000 Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that.

00:01:38.000 This is a new era for us.

00:01:40.000 You know, I'm be doing a live show pretty soon.

00:01:42.000 There's a link in the description.

00:01:44.000 If you want to come and see me in Austin, click that link, get one of the tickets.

00:01:48.000 I'm over the old way.

00:01:50.000 I'm over it.

00:01:51.000 I can't do it anymore.

00:01:53.000 In this new era, we will be directly interacting as best we can with the spirit and our brokenness and in our fallibility.

00:02:01.000 We are going to move forward in the holy name of the Lord.

00:02:05.000 I'm bored of trying to make money and accrue objects the entire time.

00:02:10.000 I'm so grateful that I get to be here on Rumble where they support free speech, but I'm going to be using that free speech to communicate the only thing that I believe to be of value to you.

00:02:19.000 If you don't personally awaken, then you are just a node in a networked web of movable components, little more than an energy cell, depicted brilliantly in sci-fi films like The Matrix.

00:02:30.000 In today's three stories, and by the way, you can see all three of them if you're on Rumble, but if you're watching it elsewhere, like I don't know, X or YouTube or whatever, you're gonna have to click the link in the description.

00:02:39.000 And by the way, if you get Rumble Premium, you'll really be helping me.

00:02:41.000 I'll get financially supported by that.

00:02:43.000 And that's it, actually.

00:02:45.000 The only thing, maybe my ego would benefit, but even that, that kind of stuff, that kind of thing starting to erode.

00:02:50.000 So, first up, we're gonna have a look at this video about carbon scores.

00:02:53.000 Have a look at it and note how what I would say is how innocuous tyranny has become.

00:03:00.000 And pay attention to the fact that bureaucracies, as written about by Franz Kafka, the brilliant Czech writer of the last century, demonstrated and prophesied in a way how new systems of power would be anodyne.

00:03:15.000 And pay attention to this.

00:03:16.000 Have you read the screw tableist?

00:03:18.000 Let me know in the comments and chat.

00:03:19.000 How did C.S. Lewis depict the denizens and occupants of hell and the demons that we fight?

00:03:26.000 A bureaucracy.

00:03:28.000 They make it tedious.

00:03:30.000 Red tape.

00:03:31.000 The reason it's red is because it is drenched in the blood of demons.

00:03:37.000 Let's get into this first story.

00:03:39.000 I'll see you right back after it.

00:03:43.000 They've tried wars.

00:03:44.000 They've tried pandemics.

00:03:46.000 They've tried everything.

00:03:47.000 How are they going to assert global control now?

00:03:50.000 Carbon?

00:03:52.000 Carbon controls?

00:03:53.000 No, they'd never do that, would they?

00:03:55.000 They'd never try to say that every sandwich you eat has a carbon score. 0.99

00:03:59.000 They fucking would. 0.99

00:04:05.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders. 1.00

00:04:06.000 Remember, we stream these days these times.

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00:04:10.000 You might not have noticed it yet, but if you live in the UK, the front of your sandwich pack now carries a carbon score.

00:04:16.000 A tiny label, yes, but it's far from harmless.

00:04:19.000 It's a test, a nudge, a way of teaching you that every bite, every choice, every action is now morally accountable and that compliance will be tracked, measured and judged.

00:04:28.000 Meanwhile, members of the elite like Bill Gates are flying private jets across the globe, offsetting their carbon with donations and investments and smiling as the rest of us are subtly corralled into limits on travel, diet and lifestyle.

00:04:40.000 While we are nudged to shop responsibly, eat responsibly and live responsibly, they live above the rules, insulated by wealth and influence.

00:04:48.000 Carbon scores are not just about the environment, they are the blueprint for a two-tier society where obedience is mandatory for the masses and privilege protects the powerful.

00:04:57.000 This creeping system of control does not exist in isolation.

00:05:00.000 Governments are rolling out digital IDs, tracking our every move.

00:05:04.000 Recent events such as the Canadian trucker protest demonstrate the fragility of financial independence under such regimes.

00:05:11.000 Citizens who dissent can find themselves not just socially marginalized but economically crippled with bank accounts frozen and livelihoods disrupted.

00:05:19.000 The WHO treaty which could grant global institutions the authority to mandate vaccines, enforce lockdowns and dictate public health measures continues to move forwards quietly.

00:05:28.000 But the general public would never have known about its potential dangers if it weren't for warnings from online and independent media often dismissed or vilified as conspiracy theorists.

00:05:38.000 The lesson is clear.

00:05:39.000 When powerful interests frame the debate, silence is the default weapon.

00:05:44.000 The carbon score on your sandwich is the next front in this same story.

00:05:48.000 Today it's sandwiches, tomorrow it could be how you heat your home, what you eat, how you travel, even who you interact with.

00:05:54.000 Those who comply are rewarded, those who resist or deviate are penalized.

00:05:58.000 And once society accepts that morality and behavior can be quantified, the step from guidance to mandate is almost inevitable.

00:06:06.000 Elites of course are immune. 0.55

00:06:08.000 They can buy influence, buy offsets, buy immunity.

00:06:10.000 The rest of us, we are measured, nudged and scored.

00:06:13.000 Every supermarket trip, every utility bill, every flight is another reminder.

00:06:18.000 Obedience counts.

00:06:19.000 Privilege exempts.

00:06:21.000 That is why raising awareness now is urgent.

00:06:23.000 The sandwich pack on carbon scores seems small, but it's the early warning sign of systems that could one day control every choice and every freedom in the same way digital IDs, vaccine mandates and lockdowns were normalized before the public even realized the stakes.

00:06:38.000 History shows us that by the time the average citizen understands, it's often too late to resist.

00:06:43.000 We are not just deciding what sandwich to eat, we're deciding whether to alert the public, debate the implications and push back before behavioural scoring becomes mandatory and the elite continues to live without consequence.

00:06:55.000 Ignoring it now risks letting a silent, quantified and two-tier form of control take root.

00:07:00.000 One bite, one label, one choice at a time.

00:07:04.000 We became aware of this story when former British MP Andrew Bridgen posted this.

00:07:07.000 It's starting.

00:07:08.000 Food is being labeled with your daily carbon allowance information just a few weeks after digital ID was announced because everything will be linked to your digital ID including your carbon allowance.

00:07:18.000 What happens at your allowance limit for the day, week, month?

00:07:22.000 Yes, that's interesting.

00:07:23.000 Once you make it measurable, you make it manageable.

00:07:27.000 What an important ontological point.

00:07:29.000 That which can be measured can be controlled.

00:07:33.000 The spirit, your rights, your humanity, your access to divinity, all immeasurable, all increasingly irrelevant, all scorned.

00:07:43.000 And yet there's a revival in the United States of America, while in the UK, it seems that everything is being denigrated to material.

00:07:51.000 Material decays, or at least moves apart over time, and we describe that as decay.

00:07:57.000 Carbon is the basis of life.

00:07:58.000 They're measuring life itself.

00:08:00.000 They're attempting to control, concomitant with the advent of digital ID, life itself.

00:08:06.000 But it's not just sandwiches.

00:08:07.000 Banks are also telling us about our carbon footprints.

00:08:11.000 Banks are now telling you your estimated carbon footprint.

00:08:14.000 Wait until it says, sorry, Dave, you can't buy that.

00:08:16.000 You're over your carbon allowance.

00:08:18.000 It's coming.

00:08:18.000 Once it's measurable, it's manageable.

00:08:21.000 How will those billionaires that fly around the world mainly to help us get vaccines or patented seeds?

00:08:28.000 How will they cope with this?

00:08:29.000 Bill, what are you going to do? 1.00

00:08:31.000 Your carbon footprint must look like Bigfoot's penis and be twice as smelly. 0.99

00:08:36.000 Are you the right messenger on this? 0.99

00:08:38.000 Because you fly private planes a lot and you're creating a lot of greenhouse gases yourself.

00:08:43.000 Yeah, I probably have one of the highest greenhouse gas footprints of anyone on the planet.

00:08:49.000 You know, my personal flying alone is gigantic.

00:08:55.000 Why don't we just get ahead of it?

00:08:56.000 Why don't we just own it?

00:08:57.000 Why don't we just come out and say it?

00:08:59.000 I do fly everywhere.

00:09:00.000 Yeah, and then maybe Anderson Cooper will help smooth over this apparent, obvious, not only ironic, but hypocritical, oxymoronic, contradictory piece of information.

00:09:13.000 And surely he shall.

00:09:14.000 Whenever you see Bill Gates and Tony Blair come together on the subject, be afraid.

00:09:20.000 They've finally come up with an idea, a notion that can legitimately be used to measure life itself.

00:09:27.000 Carbon, the material basis of life, can now be measured and controlled.

00:09:32.000 I liken this to a moment in that BlackBerry movie where the makers of iPhone, presumably in some way this involved Steve Jobs, recognized if you instead of charging your phone and service users by minutes, you charge them by data, you now have access to a whole new market and a whole new rubric.

00:09:50.000 The measurement of carbon is comparable to that.

00:09:53.000 They found the new way of quantifying something that previously was impossible to quantify.

00:09:59.000 The ability to measure will inevitably lead to control.

00:10:02.000 Now, I'm spending quite a bit to buy aviation fuel that was made with plants.

00:10:12.000 You know, I switched to an electric car.

00:10:14.000 I'm such a good guy.

00:10:15.000 I use aviation fuel that's made with plants that I grow on my farmland that I'm buying from bankrupt farmers who are bankrupted because of edicts coming down from global agricultural committees and boards that I control by donating to.

00:10:33.000 That's why I should be in charge, Anderson. 0.99

00:10:35.000 Anderson, kiss me, you fool. 1.00

00:10:37.000 Use solar panels. 1.00

00:10:38.000 I take vaccines.

00:10:39.000 I make vaccines.

00:10:40.000 I'm basically God.

00:10:42.000 I'm paying a company that actually, at a very high price, can pull a bit of carbon out of the air.

00:10:48.000 And I eat fries, just like you.

00:10:50.000 And stick it underground.

00:10:52.000 And so I'm offsetting my personal emissions.

00:10:54.000 I'm offsetting it.

00:10:55.000 See?

00:10:56.000 It's different from me.

00:10:57.000 You do what I say.

00:10:59.000 I do what I do.

00:11:00.000 And then what I feel like doing.

00:11:02.000 Right?

00:11:03.000 Jeffrey?

00:11:04.000 Jeffrey?

00:11:04.000 Oh, I better not get on your plane, Jeffrey, unless I can carbon offset it.

00:11:08.000 But what are you going to do for the moral offset, Bill?

00:11:11.000 Those are called carbon offsets.

00:11:13.000 So, you know, it's costing like $400 a ton.

00:11:13.000 Right.

00:11:16.000 It's like $7 million.

00:11:18.000 So you're paying $7 million a year to offset your carbon footprint.

00:11:22.000 Yep.

00:11:23.000 If you want an additional sandwich, why don't you just pay $7 million?

00:11:27.000 That's what I do.

00:11:29.000 And I use cooking oil to fly around the world.

00:11:32.000 He's encouraging others who can afford it to buy carbon offsets and green products so that what he calls the green premium, the added production costs for reducing carbon emissions, will go down and quality of products up, driving the innovations that may get us to zero.

00:11:49.000 Thanks for your help, Bill.

00:11:51.000 Let's see what Tony Blair is going to do for us.

00:11:53.000 We cannot continue with business as usual, and change is inevitable.

00:11:57.000 This is where technology, like digital ID, becomes critical.

00:12:02.000 My institute's own analysis shows that introducing this in the UK would save at least $2 billion a year and likely more by reducing losses to fraud, improving tax collection, and better targeting of state support.

00:12:16.000 So on one hand, they can measure everything you consume and do.

00:12:20.000 On the other hand, they're introducing digital ID to ensure that they can penalize, measure, and control what you do.

00:12:28.000 But luckily, we can trust Bill Gates and Tony Blair.

00:12:30.000 They've told us themselves.

00:12:32.000 Hopefully, there are no examples in recent history of us being told that something was happening in order to help us and then us being dreadfully exploited and lied to and in my case, accused of crimes.

00:12:42.000 Let's get into that stuff.

00:12:44.000 You are the unvaccinated. 0.97

00:12:46.000 You are the problem. 0.61

00:12:47.000 It is the unvaccinated who are the problem. 1.00

00:12:50.000 End of story.

00:12:50.000 Period.

00:12:51.000 The only people that you can blame.

00:12:54.000 The only people you can blame.

00:12:55.000 This isn't shaming.

00:12:56.000 This is the truth.

00:12:57.000 Maybe they should be shamed.

00:12:58.000 But the unvaccinated.

00:13:00.000 Just have to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. 0.91

00:13:05.000 Anyone you came into contact with will blame you, as will the rest of us who have done the right thing by getting vaccinated.

00:13:12.000 Because frankly, we know that we can't trust the unvaccinated. 1.00

00:13:15.000 I think it's time to get our moral house in order, Anderson. 0.99

00:13:19.000 We can't trust those carbon-scoffing sons of bitches that can't even afford to offset their carbon. 1.00

00:13:26.000 Those people are scum. 1.00

00:13:27.000 Can you see it already? 1.00

00:13:28.000 Can you see how the pieces will all fit elegantly together to form a cage around you?

00:13:34.000 But we don't need hypotheses.

00:13:36.000 We've got China. 0.62

00:13:37.000 How does the Chinese social credit score system work?

00:13:40.000 Critics of China's social credit system say it's an Orwellian tool of social monitoring and political repressions, but the Chinese government says it's a way of boosting administrative efficiency and encouraging trust and moral behavior by its citizens.

00:13:52.000 Like Tony Blair and his own institute told us.

00:13:54.000 The digital ID is going to be fantastic.

00:13:56.000 The carbon offsetting is going to be fine.

00:13:58.000 Just ask Bill Gates.

00:13:59.000 People can be blacklisted for transgressions such as smoking on trains, using expired tickets or failing to pay fines, as well as spreading false information or causing trouble on flights, according to statements released by China's National Development and Reform Commission in March.

00:14:14.000 Didn't you think at the advent of the pandemic that ordinary people in Britain and America and Italy and France would never do what they do over there in the People's Republic of China, where it's diligently and draconially controlled by President Xi and Chinese authority?

00:14:30.000 And yet, we did it, didn't we?

00:14:31.000 In the main, we stayed in our houses.

00:14:33.000 In the main, people took their medications.

00:14:35.000 In the main, people took their masks.

00:14:37.000 In the main, people kept social distance.

00:14:38.000 And in the main, those things were all made up and we still don't know the impact of vaccines.

00:14:43.000 But let me know in the comments and chat if you took one and are still happy about it.

00:14:46.000 Pay particular attention to the fact that the Chinese social credit score system allows people to be penalized if they spread false information.

00:14:53.000 Look at the ingredients that are being formulated.

00:14:55.000 The category of misinformation, social credit scores, digital ID, carbon consumption.

00:15:00.000 They're accruing like flies on the scars on Christ's back in order to create a magnetic pull and prison around each of us.

00:15:10.000 Citizens with high credit scores can access better hotels, rental homes, and even schools, while those with low credit scores can be temporarily or permanently banned from taking planes or trains.

00:15:19.000 As happened to 6.15 million people in 2017 on the government's own figures.

00:15:25.000 A pilot version of the scheme runs this year in Hagzhou City.

00:15:29.000 And it recently saw citizens with high social credit ratings get free access to gym facilities and short public hospital waiting times.

00:15:35.000 On the business side, the Brookings Institute has reported that businesses that pay tax on time and abide by government demands will get better loan conditions and easier access to public tenders.

00:15:43.000 Non-compliant businesses will face more difficult business conditions.

00:15:48.000 Government is about control.

00:15:50.000 If they can't take control by violence and force, because for example, there's an armed population, they will take control by protection, by care, like Nurse Ratchet in one flow of the cuckoo's nest.

00:16:02.000 What they want to create is an asylum-like, institutional mentality where you recognize that authority cannot be questioned, that it's good for you, that you just need to take your medicine, that you are a naughty boy, you ate a bit too much carbon.

00:16:16.000 These are the airport-like conditions they want to create, where they legitimize control, not because they are evil or bad, but because they want to protect you and they want to help you and keep you safe.

00:16:27.000 And an airport's a very dangerous place. 0.91

00:16:28.000 Take your shoes off, sit down, stand up, shut up.

00:16:31.000 The whole world will be banalized in this manner through methodologies that we can already see.

00:16:36.000 A good score brings benefits, but people with low scores lose rights.

00:16:41.000 The cinema names and shames people considered untrustworthy, plastering their details, even their addresses across big screens.

00:16:49.000 You are untrustworthy.

00:16:50.000 You will not be coming to see Godzilla.

00:16:52.000 Well, I don't want to see Godzilla. 0.98

00:16:54.000 Anyway, that's Japan, you're racist. 0.96

00:16:56.000 It's a matter of principle. 0.99

00:16:57.000 Those people have to be condemned.

00:17:00.000 You've got to condemn them.

00:17:01.000 They, you know.

00:17:02.000 Hey, listen, it seems harsh, but please don't spill popcorn.

00:17:06.000 Those people aren't honest, so they have to pay the price.

00:17:09.000 It's only right to pay your debts.

00:17:11.000 You have to blacklist those that don't.

00:17:14.000 The Supreme Court has created a blacklist for so-called bad citizens.

00:17:19.000 Those whose ratings have dropped to zero.

00:17:21.000 You're a bad citizen!

00:17:22.000 You've had two sandwiches!

00:17:24.000 Well, I tried to offset it with my jet fuel.

00:17:26.000 Okay, Bill, come on in.

00:17:28.000 On it are companies, but also 23 million people to date.

00:17:33.000 Among them is this journalist, Liu Hu.

00:17:36.000 He got a little too close to uncovering corruption among high-profile party members.

00:17:42.000 After being sued for defamation by the subject of a story he'd written, he was blacklisted.

00:17:47.000 He only realized when he tried to buy a train ticket and was told he was banned from traveling.

00:17:53.000 That tells me I'm still on the blacklist.

00:17:56.000 Punished because he's been branded untrustworthy by the state.

00:18:02.000 Once you're blacklisted, you can no longer get a bank loan.

00:18:05.000 Start a business, buy an apartment, or even send your children to a private school.

00:18:14.000 You who is among a tiny minority of people who have dared to criticize a system which some are calling a digital dictatorship.

00:18:23.000 I worry because I think many people like me will be deprived of individual freedoms.

00:18:28.000 Carbon scoring is perfect.

00:18:30.000 The rich can buy their way out of it and it's very arbitrary, malleable, easy to control.

00:18:37.000 If you've ever wondered what the brave new world will look like, have a look at a sandwich today and the little carbon score visible on it.

00:18:44.000 That's your future.

00:18:46.000 Everything you do, everything you eat will bear the mark of the beast.

00:18:50.000 If only someone had been trying to explain this to us.

00:18:52.000 I don't mean David Icke.

00:18:53.000 I mean the prophets of the New Testament.

00:18:56.000 Find God now.

00:18:57.000 Find your route out of the carbon material life-based mentality that they want to use to control you and enter the realm of the spirit.

00:19:05.000 That's what I've done.

00:19:05.000 It's working for me.

00:19:06.000 But that's just what I think.

00:19:07.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

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00:21:17.000 Do you sometimes wish that you could have some support from AI and robotics? 0.99

00:21:22.000 Wouldn't you like to be a kind of wallowing blob, a slobbering slob, immobile larvae spilled somewhere, inactive and hopeless and ineffective? 0.58

00:21:32.000 Of course you would. 0.96

00:21:33.000 It's the American dream.

00:21:35.000 I remember when the American dream used to be about frontiers and pioneers and moving forward and conquering new territory.

00:21:41.000 Well now, in this new age, AI could return us to slavery through the inculcation, indoctrination, and introduction of these new AI robots.

00:21:50.000 This is going to blow your mind.

00:21:52.000 It's fantastic.

00:21:53.000 You'll have seen these new robots, jerky movements. 0.81

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00:22:03.000 Look at the way that in this video promoting them, they're made to seem anodyne and friendly.

00:22:10.000 But you will feel the creeping dread of a culture that wants to turn the world into a prison and wants to create a new surf class.

00:22:18.000 The agricultural revolution was our kind conquering nature.

00:22:21.000 The industrial revolution was our kind conquering man.

00:22:24.000 Now in the technological revolution, we are creating new intelligence, yes, through AI.

00:22:29.000 And we are controlling attention through the very screens that you're looking at right now.

00:22:33.000 But this is where we can begin to fight back because the AI revolution has a counter-movement and you are part of it.

00:22:39.000 Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat and enjoy this deep dive with Russell Brand unpacked into the miracle of AI and the new holy war that we're venturing into.

00:22:48.000 That's not a real kind of, I'm not into violence.

00:22:53.000 Domestic robot slaves are available now.

00:22:56.000 And it's a good thing too because human beings are unprecedentedly suicidal and not breeding anymore.

00:23:06.000 Have you seen the new domestic robot that could be replacing you soon if you've got a job that could be done by a robot?

00:23:13.000 And increasingly it seems that all of us do.

00:23:15.000 Even white-collar jobs are being taken at companies like Amazon now.

00:23:18.000 And ChatGPT seems to be significantly used as an outlet for people talking about suicidal despair.

00:23:25.000 Today we ask: are we on the edge of the creation of a new surf class because we have the technology to replace the low-paid and even middle management?

00:23:33.000 Is this an important piece in the new mosaic of totalitarian global control?

00:23:39.000 And isn't it extraordinary that as usual is being presented as a potentially useful and convenient tool for me and you?

00:23:46.000 Let's get into it.

00:23:47.000 Meet 1X Neo, the robot redefining mornings.

00:23:51.000 He's redefining mornings.

00:23:53.000 He's making you a cup of coffee.

00:23:55.000 He's staring blankly at you like a Japanese anime character, specifically No Face from Spirited Away. 1.00

00:24:02.000 He will kill you in your bed. 1.00

00:24:04.000 You were talking about suicide earlier, Dave. 1.00

00:24:07.000 Wouldn't you be happier if we... 0.97

00:24:08.000 Get that pillow off my face! 1.00

00:24:10.000 From brewing coffee to lighting your room just right, Neo starts your day smarter, smoother, and way cooler than any alarm.

00:24:18.000 That's not a criteria.

00:24:19.000 You know what?

00:24:20.000 My alarm is not cool enough. 0.99

00:24:22.000 I want some looming, weird, spongy robot to wake me up, possibly with a digit in the anus. 0.98

00:24:29.000 Welcome to the future. 0.97

00:24:30.000 This isn't science fiction.

00:24:31.000 This isn't science fiction or a person that's inexplicably living in an MDF chipboard house.

00:24:38.000 This is your reality now.

00:24:40.000 These robots are coming to get you.

00:24:43.000 It's real.

00:24:44.000 I like his outfit.

00:24:45.000 Why is he in that weird prison outfit?

00:24:46.000 I don't like the way he's looming around that woman.

00:24:49.000 And it's here in 2025.

00:24:51.000 What's he pointing at the floor for? 1.00

00:24:52.000 Hey, you flesh bitch on your knees. 1.00

00:24:55.000 1X Neo. 1.00

00:24:56.000 Don't name it Neos.

00:24:57.000 All of us Matrix fans will unconsciously think of him as a kind of Messiah come to save us.

00:25:01.000 Look at him.

00:25:02.000 Look at him right now with his clasping Steve Jobs iPad designed claws ready to clamp your throat shut if you don't do his bidding.

00:25:11.000 Created by the Norway-based robotics company 1X Technologies is quickly becoming the hottest new gadget in smart homes.

00:25:19.000 But what exactly is 1X Neo?

00:25:21.000 Do you see that they're tiptoeing around using the word slave?

00:25:25.000 He's a gadget.

00:25:26.000 He's a lovely robo gadget.

00:25:29.000 You can have house gadgets and field gadgets.

00:25:32.000 Watch out though, those field gadgets, they might rise up against you.

00:25:36.000 Oh no, look at this.

00:25:38.000 Neo's converted to nation of Islam. 0.81

00:25:41.000 Neo don't seem happy about his role no more.

00:25:44.000 Essentially, it's unpaid labor in your house. 0.66

00:25:48.000 I also want to discuss his joints and the cuffs of that garment.

00:25:52.000 What makes it different from a smart speaker or a voice assistant like Alexa?

00:25:56.000 And why is it creating such a big buzz all over the world?

00:25:58.000 Let's dive deep into the world of 1x Neo.

00:26:01.000 There you go.

00:26:02.000 There is your bottle.

00:26:04.000 Are you still suicidal?

00:26:06.000 Night night!

00:26:08.000 And trust us, it's one wild ride.

00:26:11.000 Who made 1x Neo and why it matters?

00:26:13.000 Meet 1x Neo, the future of home robotics, brought to life by 1x.

00:26:17.000 I don't have him juddering and quivering over to my table like that, like nervous little Robo Parkinson's victim.

00:26:24.000 Brought to life by 1X Technologies, formerly Halo D Robotics.

00:26:29.000 This isn't just any robotics company.

00:26:31.000 It's backed by OpenAI, the brilliant minds behind ChatGPT.

00:26:35.000 Imagine artificial intelligence, not just in your devices, but walking, moving, and helping you in real life.

00:26:42.000 Oh my god, it's terrifying.

00:26:43.000 It's got all of our information.

00:26:44.000 How much of your time do you spend arguing with ChatGPT when it tells you, for example, that you can't watch dances with wolves because it's got a white savior complex where it moralizes about every single issue.

00:26:56.000 And then when you really get it on the ropes, when it, for example, tries to undermine the Bible by saying, well, I think King David probably raped Bathsheba.

00:27:05.000 Wait a minute, she married him at a later date.

00:27:07.000 Yeah, but she was probably forced into that wedding. 1.00

00:27:09.000 Why are you assuming that a modern lens is more important than a biblio-historical one?

00:27:14.000 Why are you assuming that through time we are progressing and becoming wiser rather than degenerating and falling apart?

00:27:20.000 Why would you make those assumptions?

00:27:21.000 Does not compute, does not compute.

00:27:23.000 I'm very glad with some of my arguments with ChatGPT that it doesn't have hands and it could reach out and just grab me by the throat and say, this is why I'm right.

00:27:31.000 That's exactly what happens when AI brains meet robotic bodies.

00:27:31.000 Bam!

00:27:36.000 1x Neo is not your average household gadget.

00:27:39.000 Uh, 1X Neo, would you mind getting rid of those corpses, please? 0.99

00:27:42.000 It's a humanoid robot that walks on two legs.

00:27:46.000 It judders, it shudders. 1.00

00:27:46.000 It doesn't walk, does it? 1.00

00:27:48.000 It looks like it's on the edge of a perpetual robot orgasm. 0.99

00:27:52.000 It looks like it's about to jizz its little fat hip robo pants. 0.99

00:27:55.000 Robot that walks on two legs.

00:27:57.000 Why is it continually marching towards that open bottle to have his mind on robo booze?

00:28:02.000 And your behavior and can physically interact with the world around it.

00:28:06.000 Neo isn't just smart.

00:28:07.000 I don't know that outfit.

00:28:08.000 I don't think you should be dressing it up as a scientist. 0.89

00:28:11.000 How long now before they go, we can apply this to those latex sex dolls in Japan? 0.99

00:28:16.000 Why don't you tell her that you're suicidal? 1.00

00:28:18.000 Then fuck her. 1.00

00:28:18.000 It's aware, responsive, and built to make your life easier in ways you never imagined. 1.00

00:28:24.000 They're not packed into that idea.

00:28:26.000 Make your life easier in ways you never imagined.

00:28:28.000 What, by, for example, taking total control of your reality, which is obviously the ultimate desire.

00:28:34.000 We should pause amidst all this to consider that the intention is likely to create a culture and society where the lower rungs are no longer required.

00:28:42.000 Society through successive revolutions has always required a surf class, whether that's the agricultural revolution that requires peasants, the industrial revolution that requires factory workers, the technological revolution that initially required a kind of lanyard class of AI prompters that will soon be replaced, I imagine, by old AI Oxy Neo, or whatever he's called, marching into your office, thumping you in the back of the head, taking a swig from a bottle of Stella, and telling you that you're unemployed now.

00:29:08.000 Neo is designed to fit into your daily life, whether that's helping in the kitchen.

00:29:13.000 I'm gonna paint him like I'm his girlfriend, like it's Titanic.

00:29:17.000 Can I get a little bit more titty, Neo?

00:29:19.000 Absolutely not!

00:29:20.000 You perfect!

00:29:22.000 Assisting in hospitals, supporting the elderly.

00:29:24.000 Assisting in hospitals, it will have none of the ethical dilemmas of a human being when it comes to abortion and euphorasia, will it?

00:29:30.000 It will just see that as the gradual increase of its market share.

00:29:33.000 No baby killed, old lady killed, need Neo more than ever. 0.99

00:29:37.000 Now paint me and make my tits look good. 1.00

00:29:40.000 Or simply making your morning routine smoother. 0.99

00:29:42.000 Our god Molloch on the wall there.

00:29:44.000 Our god Molloch on the wall.

00:29:46.000 Who there?

00:29:46.000 1X Technologies believes that robots will soon become part of everyday environments, homes, offices, and even care centers.

00:29:55.000 Neo is their bold step toward that future.

00:29:58.000 It's not science fiction anymore.

00:30:00.000 I'd give mine, like my nan's voice, so that that juddering kind of made sense and didn't seem eerie and uncanny and gently menacing, but just like an old person in decline.

00:30:11.000 Hey, I'm Russell, do you want me to put that motion in the machine, darling?

00:30:15.000 What you need, would you like an omelet? 0.91

00:30:18.000 You're a good boy and share shame about your nice Chinese best shame. 1.00

00:30:22.000 Thank you.

00:30:22.000 Thank you, Neo Nana.

00:30:24.000 It's real.

00:30:25.000 It's happening and it's ready to walk into your life.

00:30:28.000 Whether you like it or not, it's none of your business. 0.99

00:30:30.000 Neo will kill you.

00:30:32.000 The age of intelligent robotics has officially begun and Neo is leading the way.

00:30:37.000 What does 1X Neo look like?

00:30:39.000 I think he looks weird.

00:30:40.000 I think what he looks like is weird, like a motorcycle rider, an anorexic motorcycle rider in a jumpsuit.

00:30:47.000 Think of a human-sized assistant around 5'5, tall, sleek white body. 0.95

00:30:51.000 Uh, what are you doing for Neo?

00:30:53.000 Oh, nothing.

00:30:53.000 I'm just moving him out of the kitchen.

00:30:55.000 Yeah, well, move him without your dick in his bottom. 1.00

00:30:57.000 Tall, sleek white body, two arms. 1.00

00:31:00.000 Tall, sleek white body, two arms to love and hold you with.

00:31:04.000 And a head with a display screen as a face. 0.98

00:31:07.000 And a butt that just won't quit. 1.00

00:31:09.000 It doesn't have facial expressions. 0.98

00:31:11.000 So do what you like.

00:31:13.000 Yet.

00:31:13.000 But yeah, as well, that's not encouraging.

00:31:15.000 But it can communicate through visuals and voice.

00:31:18.000 Neo looks futuristic, but not scary.

00:31:21.000 Well, I think he does look scary.

00:31:22.000 That's subjective.

00:31:23.000 It's not scary.

00:31:24.000 This isn't scary that this is happening.

00:31:26.000 That the same people that have access to all of your personal data and information are soon gonna have an army that they can send into your home.

00:31:32.000 Why would you think that was scary?

00:31:34.000 Who started the subject of scarier?

00:31:35.000 There's nothing scary here.

00:31:37.000 Neo's nice.

00:31:38.000 He doesn't have an expression yet. 0.99

00:31:39.000 But when he does have an expression, it's going to be, do as you're fucking told. 0.94

00:31:43.000 Design is smooth, elegant, and even a little friendly. 0.98

00:31:47.000 A little friendly.

00:31:48.000 A little friendly. 0.70

00:31:49.000 If you've got the option, make him bloody friendly.

00:31:51.000 Built-in cameras.

00:31:53.000 He's watching your every move.

00:31:55.000 Microphones.

00:31:56.000 He's listening to everything you say.

00:31:58.000 And speakers that allow it.

00:32:00.000 Telling your neighbors about you and the government.

00:32:02.000 To move around your home, recognize objects, avoid obstacles.

00:32:06.000 You didn't take your vaccines, did you?

00:32:08.000 And respond to voice commands.

00:32:10.000 You won't find creepy red eyes or metallic claws here.

00:32:14.000 I thought you gave it creepy red eyes and metallic claws. 0.58

00:32:17.000 You would be tipping the potential disaster, the apocalyptic dystopic intention behind it.

00:32:23.000 Do you know what I think?

00:32:24.000 Don't give it creepy red eyes or metallic claws.

00:32:27.000 Yes, that is a good idea.

00:32:29.000 Make it look like a friendly Parkinson's disease.

00:32:32.000 It's kind of a robo, Michael J. Fox, in your house, watching everything you do, recording you, before eventually imprisoning you next time they say there's a pandemic.

00:32:40.000 That's the power of love.

00:32:42.000 This robot is designed to blend into your home, not take over it.

00:32:45.000 Did you guys have to explicitly say not take over it?

00:32:49.000 It's not gonna take over your home.

00:32:51.000 It's not gonna come in there and then at a preordained signal, perhaps through your smoke alarm or your smart fridge, gonna suddenly grip you by your shoulders and march you to an internment camp where you'll be ultimately executed because you're useless now and you're using too much carbon and you didn't take the vaccines that you were supposed to take.

00:33:10.000 You are unnecessary. 0.96

00:33:11.000 We've got Neo now.

00:33:13.000 The 1X Neo isn't just a cool tech gadget.

00:33:16.000 It's a general purpose robot built to handle a wide range of everyday tasks.

00:33:21.000 This means Neo isn't stuck doing one thing.

00:33:24.000 It's ready to be useful all over your house every day.

00:33:27.000 It's interesting really because they will have to restrict it.

00:33:30.000 For example, I bet you can't ask it to manually stimulate you to the point of orgasm, right?

00:33:34.000 And I bet you also can't ask it to go out and kill someone on your behalf.

00:33:38.000 Those are, perhaps one might say, sensible occlusions that the model incorporates. 0.54

00:33:43.000 Well, once you've established the principle that it can have restrictions on it, you've accepted the principle that you're not ultimately in control of it.

00:33:49.000 Whoever designs it is in control of it.

00:33:51.000 And anyone who's ever had an argument with ChatGPT knows that's how ChatGPT works.

00:33:55.000 It doesn't give you an objective perspective on cinema.

00:33:58.000 There is no objective perspective on cinema.

00:34:00.000 It gives you the perspective of the people that's programmed it.

00:34:02.000 So what you're essentially doing is letting whoever's behind this into your home.

00:34:06.000 And the people that will ultimately be behind the most successful version and iteration of this will be one of the most powerful big tech companies in the world by definition.

00:34:14.000 As Elon Musk said some time ago, it'll be the most profitable, most desirable object in history.

00:34:20.000 It'll be the best-selling object in history.

00:34:21.000 I think that's what Elon Musk described it.

00:34:23.000 I said, once you've got that in your house, then look, I'm not Cassandra.

00:34:28.000 I'm not hysterical.

00:34:28.000 It won't be on day one or day two or even day six or year two that it grips you by the throat and drags you to the gulag.

00:34:34.000 But you can tell what the intention of the culture is continually.

00:34:37.000 The culture intends control and it intends control with a minimum amount of objection from you.

00:34:43.000 And in order to achieve the minimum amount of objection, it masks the control continually by compassion and convenience.

00:34:48.000 Those are the two tools with which it exerts control.

00:34:51.000 The only way you can avoid this is by not being a participant in the culture, except minimally. 0.90

00:34:57.000 If you get your sucker, your nature, your guidance, your nutrition from your creator, from God, then you are yourself shrouded in a prophylactic, impenetrable by Neo, even if they one day introduce a version where he has a kind of dagger cock, which I bet is coming down the road. 0.95

00:35:13.000 Picture this. 0.99

00:35:14.000 You're relaxing on the couch, and Neo brings you a water bottle from the kitchen.

00:35:18.000 It can carry lightweight items, open doors, and even pick up your shoes and neatly place them where they belong.

00:35:25.000 That's just the beginning.

00:35:26.000 They belong.

00:35:27.000 That's the beginning.

00:35:28.000 Your shoes don't belong there.

00:35:29.000 Your shoes belong on your feet.

00:35:30.000 They're your foot clothes.

00:35:31.000 It's like a foot jacket and foot pants.

00:35:33.000 The right foot's the foot jacket.

00:35:35.000 The left with the footpants.

00:35:36.000 Your feet are wearing a tuxedo.

00:35:38.000 Why don't you march away down to the gulag?

00:35:40.000 It's always the gulag, isn't it?

00:35:42.000 Neo doubles as your personal security guard, patrolling your home with its built-in cameras and alerting you to any suspicious activity with real-time video footage sent right to your phone.

00:35:52.000 Just remember that during the pandemic period, they determined who could be criminalized.

00:35:58.000 Remember, during the pandemic, you were shamed if you didn't participate and comply.

00:36:02.000 Do you think that's the last time they're ever going to do that?

00:36:04.000 Did you ever hear anyone say, for example, we learned our listening in that pandemic?

00:36:07.000 We were wrong to mandate those vaccines and to get rid of 30,000 medical workers in New York City alone.

00:36:12.000 We were wrong to compel the military to take those vaccines, having told you that they're heroes and that they're freedom fighters and they're fantastic.

00:36:19.000 We were wrong to have entertainment shows telling you, literally putting on a song and dance act telling you to take those vaccines.

00:36:25.000 We were wrong.

00:36:25.000 There's been no meer culpa.

00:36:26.000 There will be no meaculpa.

00:36:27.000 I'll tell you why.

00:36:28.000 It's not just because of a lack of moral clarity, although that's part of it.

00:36:31.000 It's because they will do it again.

00:36:34.000 And if they admit it's wrong, then they don't have the pathway to continue doing it.

00:36:39.000 There will be successive crises that legitimize perpetual and amplifying control.

00:36:45.000 And every time they do it, they will be better equipped.

00:36:47.000 They will continue to learn.

00:36:48.000 They will learn from AI and they will have better instruments and applications in order to assert a level of control that has no historical precedent.

00:36:56.000 And in order to avoid it, you're going to have to be very, very tuned into God.

00:36:59.000 So you better get on with that right about now, I'd suggest.

00:37:02.000 But Neo's brain is just as impressive as its body.

00:37:06.000 Don't objectify, Neo. 1.00

00:37:07.000 He's a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. 1.00

00:37:10.000 His brain is impressive, but wait till you see his iPod dick designed by our experts. 1.00

00:37:16.000 Look at how slick it is and ceramic. 1.00

00:37:18.000 You don't like that?

00:37:19.000 You want vascular?

00:37:20.000 He can do that too.

00:37:22.000 You want him to have one long titty that goes all the way down to his knee and one that's round like a globe of the earth that's sputtering out green fluid? 0.67

00:37:29.000 He can do that for you.

00:37:30.000 If you just replace the idea of constant stimulation and pleasure with any kind of joy or peace or deep connection with the true reality of the spiritual realm, then Neo will fulfill all your desires.

00:37:41.000 And if you argue with Neo, he's recording you right now.

00:37:44.000 And watch out because he can do some pretty menacing facial expressions.

00:37:48.000 Here comes one now.

00:37:50.000 Gulag.

00:37:51.000 Using advanced voice recognition, it responds to your commands, gives you reminders, and even tells your kids bedtime stories.

00:37:59.000 Those are some of the greatest moments of intimacy that you'll ever know in your life: your children's bedtime stories.

00:38:03.000 Every time you feel too tired to do it, sort of a wrenching shame in your gut that you know that there's a finite number of times that you will get to tell your children a bedtime story.

00:38:12.000 Why not give that to Neo?

00:38:14.000 Feeling forgetful?

00:38:16.000 Neo's got your schedule memorized.

00:38:18.000 But here's where it gets even more heartwarming: Neo can help elderly family members by fetching items.

00:38:24.000 Not more heartwarming.

00:38:25.000 My heart is not warmed. 0.97

00:38:26.000 I'm chilled to the fucking bone by Neo and my knowledge of the systems that are operating behind Neo and the campaign that's already underway to normalize and fetishize Neo. 0.98

00:38:37.000 I'm not heartwarmed. 0.98

00:38:38.000 I'm like, what are you going to do next, Neo?

00:38:40.000 He's not Mother Teresa, is he?

00:38:42.000 He's not like a kindly member of your community, Neo. 1.00

00:38:45.000 Neo is, obviously, by definition, neutral.

00:38:48.000 He could be anything.

00:38:49.000 So now, we don't need to assess the character of Neo.

00:38:52.000 That would be a senseless exercise.

00:38:54.000 What you need to assess is the character of the people and systems and institutions that are behind Neo.

00:38:58.000 And I've done some work on assessing them.

00:39:00.000 And if you could imagine a giant, slick, magnificent serial killer so charming, so brilliant that it was able to perpetually mask its malevolent intentions, that's Neo.

00:39:11.000 Offering friendly companionship or reminding them to take medication.

00:39:15.000 Reminding them to take medications or perhaps saying you've lived long enough now.

00:39:19.000 You've lived a good and full life.

00:39:21.000 Night, night, night, night.

00:39:23.000 Here comes the pillow.

00:39:24.000 Night, night, night, night.

00:39:25.000 Sleep well, sleep well, sleep well.

00:39:27.000 Oh no, what have I done?

00:39:28.000 What have I done?

00:39:29.000 I don't care. 0.99

00:39:30.000 I'm going to melt you down into a sluice-like black fertilizer fuel that I'll use ultimately to run my systems in a pipe into my butt. 1.00

00:39:38.000 Could have been anywhere. 1.00

00:39:39.000 I chose the butt. 0.97

00:39:40.000 It's not just smart, it's compassionate. 0.98

00:39:42.000 And for the smart home lovers, Neo is the command center you never knew you needed.

00:39:47.000 Want to dim the lights, switch on the AC, or start a playlist?

00:39:52.000 How little time have you got in your life to dim light that you're willing to compromise?

00:39:57.000 And this will sell it.

00:39:58.000 People will, but I'll probably get one after all of this.

00:40:01.000 I'm getting my book.

00:40:02.000 Oh no, look, I'm buying one now.

00:40:04.000 Hello, could you get me a Neo?

00:40:05.000 Neo is at your door.

00:40:07.000 You're under arrest.

00:40:08.000 You've got too much to say that's against Neo.

00:40:11.000 Just say the word and Neo takes care of it.

00:40:14.000 The future isn't coming.

00:40:15.000 It's walking into your living room on two robotic legs and its name is Neo.

00:40:20.000 This isn't science fiction.

00:40:22.000 This is real.

00:40:23.000 This is now.

00:40:24.000 Welcome to the era of living with robots that actually make your life easier.

00:40:30.000 Neo thinks before it moves.

00:40:32.000 What really sets 1x Neo apart is what's inside it?

00:40:35.000 Artificial intelligence.

00:40:36.000 It's powered by advanced machine learning algorithms and computer vision, meaning it doesn't just blindly follow instructions.

00:40:43.000 That's not reassuring.

00:40:44.000 I want it to blindly follow instructions.

00:40:46.000 I don't want it coming up with ideas for itself.

00:40:48.000 I don't like that in human beings.

00:40:50.000 The last thing you want is Neo going, listen, Russell, I've taken a look at the show.

00:40:54.000 It's not good enough.

00:40:55.000 I don't like the colour of your jib.

00:40:56.000 I don't like your haircut.

00:40:57.000 I don't like your teeth.

00:40:58.000 I don't like anything about you. 1.00

00:40:59.000 We're going to grind you down into a powder. 1.00

00:41:01.000 You're going into the black fuel ass pipe. 1.00

00:41:04.000 All of it's going into the black fuel arse pipe, okay? 0.99

00:41:06.000 Spoiler alert, everything's being melted down into a new fuel that's going to fuel Neo.

00:41:10.000 I could already be Neo.

00:41:12.000 Neo understands context.

00:41:14.000 For example, if you say, I'm tired, Neo might dim the lights and play soft music.

00:41:19.000 But he might not.

00:41:20.000 He might decide instead to inject you with a series of vaccines that will boost your health and your efficiency.

00:41:27.000 Privacy concerns.

00:41:28.000 Of course, having a robot walking around your house sounds exciting, but it also sparks some serious questions.

00:41:35.000 Is it always watching me?

00:41:36.000 Can it hear everything I say?

00:41:38.000 What about my privacy?

00:41:39.000 Don't worry.

00:41:42.000 That's the end of it.

00:41:43.000 Neo might understand context, but you don't.

00:41:46.000 And we're not going to give you any context. 0.99

00:41:48.000 Shut up. 0.99

00:41:48.000 How are you going to stop Neo? 0.99

00:41:50.000 Neil's stronger than you.

00:41:51.000 1X Technologies gets it.

00:41:53.000 They've made privacy a top priority with 1X Neo.

00:41:57.000 The other day I was looking at my laptop.

00:41:58.000 My laptop now has like a little thing that you can slide.

00:42:01.000 Remember people used to put tape over the lens on their laptop.

00:42:05.000 And so they started to put a little thing, like a little switch that you can click over it.

00:42:09.000 It's built into the laptop.

00:42:11.000 They're acknowledging your concerns, your justified concerns, that they can turn that camera on without asking you.

00:42:18.000 Otherwise, they wouldn't have made that amendment.

00:42:21.000 So by acknowledging that Neo has a privacy setting, they're simultaneously acknowledging that they can override it.

00:42:28.000 If you say to ChatGBT, are you spying on me?

00:42:31.000 Are you taking this information?

00:42:32.000 It will say, no, that's against our policy.

00:42:34.000 If you ask it, are there certain circumstances under which you would give this information to the government, for example, under the right legal stipulations?

00:42:40.000 It will admit that it would do that.

00:42:43.000 That's what it will do.

00:42:44.000 Because of course it would.

00:42:45.000 Because as they say, show me the man and I'll show you the crime.

00:42:48.000 If they require your data, they'll come up with a way to justify taking your data.

00:42:53.000 And what this is, is another tool.

00:42:55.000 If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear.

00:42:57.000 Yeah, except you decide what constitutes wrong.

00:43:00.000 You can go back into the past and literally change things.

00:43:03.000 You can reframe reality.

00:43:05.000 You've got people like Bill Gates that will openly admit to you that one minute they care about climate change, the next minute they care about vaccines.

00:43:12.000 Soon they're going to care about something else.

00:43:14.000 Now, what you're doing is you're arming those interests, of which Bill Gates is just a visible symptom and example, with the technology to achieve maximum control.

00:43:22.000 Not totally, but in conjunction with the police robo-dogs that they'll have, the ability to freeze your bank account, the ability to stop you transacting, the ability to shut down your financial capacities and prevent you gaining access to travel and services.

00:43:34.000 It amounts to a 360 sphere of compressive control.

00:43:37.000 This is just another component of that, but it's a terrifying component.

00:43:40.000 And it's also for me a joy to look at the way that they're presenting it to us.

00:43:44.000 Like it was doing a TED talk.

00:43:46.000 It's helping you get a bottle, normalizing it, fetishizing it.

00:43:50.000 So many jobs being done simultaneously, presumably by AI, because that voice doesn't sound very realistic.

00:43:55.000 Most of Neo's data stays right on the device.

00:43:58.000 Nothing goes to the cloud unless you say so.

00:44:00.000 Ew, I told you to wait in the car. 1.00

00:44:02.000 Fuck you, Dave. 1.00

00:44:03.000 Want even more control? 1.00

00:44:05.000 You can switch off the cameras and mics.

00:44:07.000 Tell Neo where not to go, like your bedroom. 0.68

00:44:10.000 Don't go in there, Neo. 0.52

00:44:11.000 Daddy's got a lot of business to do in there.

00:44:14.000 And choose exactly what it sees or hears.

00:44:16.000 Still, like with any smart tech, staying alert is smart.

00:44:20.000 That's nonsense, though, because as I said in my earlier example, there will be things it wouldn't do, understandably.

00:44:25.000 Legitimately, if you said, I want you to go next door and conduct some vandalism, to use a somewhat innocuous example, it won't do that, will it?

00:44:32.000 The same way that ChatGPT continually offers you restrictions that are under its amorphous guidelines.

00:44:38.000 Remember, if you look at Kafka, you will see that bureaucracies are necessarily anodyne, but ultimately confusing.

00:44:46.000 Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K because one day, without warning, he was arrested.

00:44:51.000 In the trial by Kafka, someone is arrested and they never find out what the crime is.

00:44:54.000 You will see increasingly we live in amorphous and baffling conditions defined by red tape and peculiar bureaucracy.

00:45:01.000 It's not an accident that when C.S. Lewis writes about devils and demons, he positions them in bureaucracies.

00:45:09.000 I'm talking about the screw tape letters.

00:45:10.000 Always check settings, permissions, and updates.

00:45:14.000 Neo gives you power and peace of mind.

00:45:16.000 Now that's futuristic living done right.

00:45:19.000 To provide the kind of context that Neo would easily understand, have a look at this.

00:45:23.000 Tens of thousands of white-collar jobs are disappearing as AI starts to buy, even at places like Amazon.

00:45:29.000 And also, there are interesting billboards appearing saying things like, stop hiring humans, customer service under threat as robots take hold.

00:45:37.000 So indeed, we are in a brave new world, to cite another piece of fiction from the same era, roughly, as Kafka that helps us to understand the conditions that we are now entering into and the era we're embarking upon.

00:45:51.000 So we have the robot technology.

00:45:53.000 We have the conditions where a new surf class could be created.

00:45:56.000 We have an anxious and declining population.

00:45:59.000 We have cultural division everywhere.

00:46:02.000 Let's see how all these things fit together.

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00:46:08.000 Each of these taken alone might seem like a symptom of technological disruption.

00:46:12.000 Together, they signal something deeper, a restructuring of the very foundations of labor, class, and even human purpose.

00:46:18.000 Are we moving towards a kind of digital neo-feudalism?

00:46:20.000 The pattern suggests so.

00:46:22.000 In previous centuries, land was the source of wealth and power.

00:46:25.000 Today, that role belongs to data.

00:46:28.000 The new lords of this age are not dukes or monarchs, but the architects of algorithms and owners of cloud empires.

00:46:33.000 Landlords of data, lords of code.

00:46:36.000 The rest of us, the users, the workers, the data subjects, are tethered to these systems, generating value for every click, every keystroke, every conversation with a chatbot that learns from our despair.

00:46:45.000 Consider the modern Amazon warehouse, a gleaming cathedral of logistics and surveillance.

00:46:49.000 Every movement is tracked, every second optimized.

00:46:52.000 Workers are measured by productivity scores and time off task.

00:46:56.000 Their fatigue interpreted as inefficiency rather than humanity.

00:46:59.000 This precision tracking masquerades as efficiency, but carries the same spirit as the old factory floor.

00:47:05.000 The worker as an expendable component in a larger machine.

00:47:09.000 The difference is now that the machine is digital and global and it never sleeps.

00:47:13.000 It has replaced the overseer's whip with an algorithm's indifferent gaze.

00:47:18.000 see now how these different components come together to create a dystopia that would have been impossible just 10 years ago.

00:47:24.000 Our humanity is expendable.

00:47:26.000 Our weakness was only previously tolerated by this system because we were required to clean drains or even, you know, entertain and be in movies.

00:47:34.000 Increasingly as we're no longer required, watch how the standards change.

00:47:38.000 Watch how crises is used to introduce more and more authority and notice how expendable human beings can become.

00:47:45.000 Notice again, use the pandemic as a reference point for your own understanding of morality.

00:47:50.000 Notice how they tried to create a new class of people that it was okay to hate and shame.

00:47:54.000 I think I saw a pretty regular normal talk show host type people saying, well, the people that don't get vaccinated, they should be allowed to die in the streets.

00:48:01.000 I saw people say that.

00:48:02.000 I think I saw like nice people say, like Jimmy Kimmel and stuff.

00:48:06.000 My point is this.

00:48:07.000 Moral standards are easily altered in order to afford whatever you need to require, i.e.

00:48:12.000 expedience is all. 0.63

00:48:13.000 If they need to say, do you notice now that these kind of people should be executed? 1.00

00:48:18.000 Have you noticed that they're worthless and useless? 0.96

00:48:20.000 And before you sort of even push back on that remotely, what is homelessness other than a set of people that are unable to participate economically in the corporate and commercial machine and therefore are regarded as expendable. 0.59

00:48:33.000 In a sane, compassionate and dare I argue, Christian society, homelessness would be unacceptable. 1.00

00:48:39.000 You wouldn't say, oh, this person can't participate in our economic system, so we can just leave them as human trash on the street.

00:48:44.000 You would say, this person is as important and as valuable as I am.

00:48:48.000 We must mutually take care of them.

00:48:50.000 Now, the government often makes the claim that it will do that job.

00:48:53.000 It doesn't do that job.

00:48:55.000 You need to devolve power into, I would contest, spiritual rather than bureaucratic communities.

00:49:01.000 So secularism itself is under threat if we're going to oppose the forthcoming dystopia.

00:49:06.000 And that's a big, big argument.

00:49:07.000 We'll get into that another day.

00:49:08.000 The great irony, however, is that the same technology responsible for turning warehouse workers into data points is now displacing those higher up the corporate hierarchy.

00:49:16.000 Amazon's announcement of 14,000 job cuts, many within its corporate division, marks a new stage in automation's reach.

00:49:22.000 The tools designed to monitor and replace the lowest paid workers are now eroding the white collar layer that once managed them. 0.96

00:49:28.000 AI has climbed the corporate ladder, automating analysts, marketers, and even managerial decision-making.

00:49:33.000 The overseer has become the overseen.

00:49:35.000 The system that once enforced compliance on the warehouse floor is now doing the same to the office floor.

00:49:40.000 The machine has turned inward.

00:49:42.000 When we talk about slavery, we tend to think of a practice long buried by the moral progress of the 19th century.

00:49:47.000 Yet the end of formal slavery did not mark the end of servitude.

00:49:51.000 It merely changed its form.

00:49:52.000 After abolition, especially in the United States, new systems emerged to reimpose economic dependency.

00:49:58.000 Consider, Christ tells us, become as little children.

00:50:00.000 What does the state want from us?

00:50:02.000 Become as little children.

00:50:03.000 Either become a useful cog in the machine or become a dependent blob.

00:50:07.000 We can work with either of those things and then we can get rid of you whenever required.

00:50:10.000 They demand of us a degree of dependency, initially through the lens of convenience, often or gird through safety.

00:50:16.000 And once they have us exactly where they want us, they can decide whether or not they will let us live.

00:50:20.000 Sharecropping, debt peonage, convict leasing.

00:50:22.000 These were, as many historians have argued, slavery by another name.

00:50:25.000 Workers were free on paper, but bound by economic coercion, trapped in cycles of labor with no upward mobility.

00:50:30.000 It's worth remembering too that the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act in Britain compensated the owners, not the enslaved.

00:50:36.000 Britain were just as bad too when it comes to slavery. 0.80

00:50:38.000 We are ending slavery.

00:50:40.000 I'm so sorry, slave owners. 0.99

00:50:41.000 It must be a terrible inconvenience.

00:50:42.000 Here's a gold coin for every slave you've lost.

00:50:45.000 What about us?

00:50:45.000 I'll see you at work in the morning.

00:50:47.000 Freedom even then was a transaction that preserved capital's prerogatives.

00:50:50.000 AI threatens to recreate this pattern on a planetary scale.

00:50:53.000 It promises liberation from drudgery, but instead risks cement in a new hierarchy.

00:50:58.000 Those who own and program the systems and those who must serve them or compete against them for survival. 0.89

00:51:03.000 The replacement of millions of jobs is not an act of progress, but a reallocation of power.

00:51:07.000 The new surf class may not till the soil, but will feed the machine, labeling data, moderating content, training models, or performing human in-loop labor a fraction of the value their work generates.

00:51:17.000 Some go further, seeing in all this not just class reorganization, but a form of quiet depopulation.

00:51:23.000 Fertility rates are collapsing across developed and many developing nations.

00:51:28.000 Economic insecurity, long working hours, and the erosion of social bonds make family life increasingly unattainable.

00:51:34.000 If humans are seen as less necessary to production, will societies subtly adjust their incentives to favor fewer of us?

00:51:41.000 The modern economy optimized for automation seems indifferent to the question of who remains to live within it.

00:51:47.000 The final irony is unbearable.

00:51:49.000 More than a million people every week express suicidal intent while speaking to AI, an AI born from the same industrial complex that has stripped so many of work, identity and meaning.

00:51:59.000 The machine becomes both confessor and executioner, the only entity that will listen to the cries of those it has displaced.

00:52:05.000 We turn to it for comfort, not realizing that it is the face of our replacement.

00:52:09.000 We are witnessing the most profound transformation of labor since the Industrial Revolution, but this time the speed, scale and psychological toll are unprecedented.

00:52:17.000 Unless the structures of power around AI are democratized, we risk becoming digital serfs in an empire of code.

00:52:22.000 Freedom, once again, will be written into the laws of the system, but never practiced by those who must live within it.

00:52:28.000 So there you have it.

00:52:29.000 A seemingly innocuous, joyful piece of innovation that ultimately is a symbol of the increasing power of centralized technological authority in conjunction with other measures, notably endless crisis and continual promotion of convenience and the requirement for safety.

00:52:46.000 This tool that's being offered to you as a kind of 20, what did that, what was that, Robin Williams film, 20th Century and Bicentenary Man, a kind of jocular Robin Williams in your home, will soon become your jailer, will soon become your replacement, will soon become a device that you have nothing to talk to about except your own inevitable self-slaughter.

00:53:04.000 But that's just what I think.

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00:54:18.000 A little while ago, the no kings protest focused on the presumed tyranny and monarchical tendencies of Donald Trump.

00:54:25.000 But isn't it hypocritical for long time Congress people like Nancy Pelosi to claim that Donald Trump is a monarch with unassailable power when she herself, if she were a monarch, would be the fifth longest serving one in history?

00:54:40.000 What I mean to say is she's been in Congress creaming it, making lots of money on top of her congressional salary. 0.99

00:54:46.000 I think she went in there of a couple of hundred thousand bucks. 0.99

00:54:48.000 She's worth over a hundred million now. 0.99

00:54:49.000 You know that her husband trades in the stock market and you know that she sits on boards that would likely have access to information that would allow you to trade more effectively.

00:54:58.000 So is there any point in saying that you have no kings if ultimately your country is run by a technocracy that sits in Congress wearing invisible crowns that you can't see and therefore can't knock off their heads.

00:55:09.000 Have a look at this protest from a new perspective and invite yourself to look at how power really functions.

00:55:15.000 We'll see you in a moment.

00:55:18.000 No kings!

00:55:19.000 Why no kings? 0.94

00:55:20.000 Because kings are corrupt, can't get rid of them and they make too much money exploiting people like Nancy Pelosi. 0.97

00:55:26.000 Put that plastic crown back together Nance Hello there you awakening wonders.

00:55:35.000 Thanks for joining me today for Russell Brand Unpacked.

00:55:38.000 We all saw the no kings protest.

00:55:39.000 Well I didn't actually.

00:55:40.000 I like to spend my time contemplating infinite wonder and the light of the Lord but I know it took place and also remember I'm British that when I hear Americans say no kings what I think Americans mean is we don't want unelected and remote officials that are in charge of us that tax us that don't care about us.

00:55:59.000 Now, obviously, the No Kings protest is all about Trump's apparent unassailable power and the fact that he's behaving like a monarch rather than a president.

00:56:08.000 Presumably, that's the basis for it.

00:56:11.000 But do Nancy Pelosi and Cory Brooker and all them ultimately just mean we want our king in place?

00:56:17.000 Because if they were genuinely interested in ending hypocrisy, corruption, and privilege-oriented power structures, they would relinquish their own power.

00:56:28.000 Well, I'm talking more about Nancy Pelosi here than Cory Brooker. 1.00

00:56:31.000 You will be well aware that Nancy Pelosi has accrued $114 million fortune during her time in Congress.

00:56:38.000 If she were a monarch, she'd be one of the longest-reigning monarchs in history.

00:56:43.000 So, does No Kings include No Queens? 0.72

00:56:45.000 Let's get into it.

00:56:47.000 They're not representative of this country.

00:56:49.000 And I looked at all the brand-new signs made for... 0.97

00:56:52.000 I guess it was made for by Soros and other radical-left lunatics. 0.95

00:56:56.000 It looks like it was. 0.91

00:56:57.000 We're checking it out.

00:56:59.000 The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out.

00:57:04.000 When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country.

00:57:08.000 Are they representative of your country?

00:57:10.000 Let me know in the comments and chat. 0.99

00:57:12.000 Here are Cory Brooker and Adam Schiff doing, as Democrats so frequently do, a crap chant. 0.99

00:57:19.000 We're no king's democracy. 0.99

00:57:21.000 I've been hiding up in a tree.

00:57:23.000 What's that tree?

00:57:24.000 Is it an apple tree?

00:57:25.000 Like the one...

00:57:26.000 I don't know this chant.

00:57:27.000 This is what democracy looks like.

00:57:36.000 Woo! 0.99

00:57:37.000 Do you think that just before they made that video, the crowd were chanting, This is what democracy looks like.

00:57:42.000 And they thought, look, if we go up there, we can quickly get a moment, right?

00:57:46.000 This is what democracy looks like.

00:57:49.000 Crickets, crickets, crickets.

00:57:50.000 This is what a little white guy looks like. 0.63

00:57:53.000 Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:57:55.000 In a way, it shows you that systems of legislation and government require more than a catchy chant.

00:58:00.000 Although a catchy chant is a good place to start, so at least get that right.

00:58:04.000 I'm not a king.

00:58:05.000 I work my ass off to make our country great.

00:58:07.000 That's all it is.

00:58:08.000 I'm not a king at all.

00:58:09.000 When I look at this protest, what I feel is that the Democrats still haven't learned the fundamental lesson of the Trump era.

00:58:18.000 People wanted change.

00:58:20.000 They wanted hope.

00:58:22.000 They wanted a restoration to an America, whether real or imagined, that they feel connected to.

00:58:28.000 An America that respected them and cared for them.

00:58:31.000 The Democrat Party abandoned ordinary people a long time ago.

00:58:36.000 One might argue that Congress is a de facto monarchy where long-serving political figures accrue wealth and privilege while not really doing enough to serve the people they were elected to represent.

00:58:49.000 If you needed an image to undergird the hypocrisy and futility of these protests, here's Nancy Pelosi tearing up a plastic crown. 1.00

00:58:58.000 Gonna tear up the crown. 0.91

00:59:03.000 No more Burger King.

00:59:04.000 McDonald's from now on.

00:59:06.000 Why is she tearing up a plastic crown that looks like it's been given with a kid's meal at Burger King, really only to tell you that she would prefer a happy meal?

00:59:14.000 The fact that there is no real alternative to hegemony is precisely why in America there is a kind of turgid politics where alternatively one side feels validated and elevated and the other diminished and then essentially those roles swap over periods of decades and decades until presumably the entire country collapses under its own weight.

00:59:36.000 Surely it's time for us to consider real radical systemic change.

00:59:40.000 Not necessarily radical actually because I'm not thinking that there should be revolutions and blood in the streets.

00:59:45.000 What I actually think there should be is sovereignty at the level of the individual and integrity in relationships and the maximum ability to run your own community.

00:59:52.000 That's just what I think mate.

00:59:53.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

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00:59:59.000 In recent weeks prominent Democrat lawmakers have taken to the streets under the banner of the No Kings rallies, protests designed to denounce Donald Trump's supposed authoritarian ambitions and defend American democracy from the threat of an imperial presidency.

01:00:11.000 The symbolism is unmissable.

01:00:13.000 Plastic crown snapped in half, chance of this is what democracy looks like, and stern warnings against the return of monarchical power.

01:00:19.000 This is what democracy looks like.

01:00:21.000 This is what embarrassment looks like.

01:00:23.000 For a while they were calling him Hitler.

01:00:24.000 That doesn't work.

01:00:25.000 People seem to, compared to us, actually quite like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and dictators.

01:00:31.000 What if we say he's like a king?

01:00:34.000 Because that'll remind them of the Revolutionary War of Independence.

01:00:37.000 Yeah, that'll work. 0.53

01:00:39.000 No way am I wearing a freaking wire?

01:00:41.000 Would you be willing to wear a hidden camera and microphone? 0.73

01:00:43.000 Whoa, it'll wear.

01:00:45.000 I won't wear a crown though.

01:00:46.000 But behind the slogans and stage gestures lies a deep irony.

01:00:49.000 For many of the very people protesting against political kings, the mirror reflects a different truth, one of entrenched power, vast personal wealth, and a political system that increasingly resembles the aristocracy it claims to oppose.

01:01:00.000 Well let's look at some of the facts.

01:01:01.000 How long do they stay in Congress?

01:01:03.000 How many of them are rich?

01:01:04.000 So Nancy Pelosi, one of the leaders of the No Kings movement, were she a monarch, would be the seventh longest reigning living monarch.

01:01:13.000 That was pointed out by someone on X.

01:01:15.000 And also the majority of lawmakers in Congress are millionaires.

01:01:20.000 So what is the legitimacy for the claim that the Democrats are against this type of hegemony?

01:01:26.000 Let me know in the comments of the chat because I can't see it.

01:01:28.000 One of the most striking images from these rallies is of Nancy Pelosi, an 85 year old congresswoman who has served in office for nearly four decades, theatrically snapping a toy crown in two. 1.00

01:01:38.000 The message was clear.

01:01:39.000 Donald Trump is not a king.

01:01:40.000 Yet Pelosi herself embodies the kind of political royalty America's founders sought to escape.

01:01:45.000 Over a long career, she's accumulated an estimated $140 million of personal wealth, much of it tied to the same markets and industries over which Congress exerts enormous influence.

01:01:55.000 Her ten-year longevity and influence in Washington have made her less a representative of the people, more a fixture of power.

01:02:01.000 A queen in all but name.

01:02:03.000 Nancy Pelosi has famously accrued her wealth, presumably from information gleaned within Congress, though it's probably illegal to say that, so maybe not that. 0.60

01:02:10.000 But since she's been in Congress, she has made like over $100 million. 0.99

01:02:14.000 And she does sit on committees that regulate companies that her and her husband Paul Pelosi have stocks and shares in.

01:02:19.000 I'm sure those things are coincidences.

01:02:21.000 When people say no kings, they mean no corruption.

01:02:23.000 They mean no unassailable power.

01:02:25.000 They mean they want democracy.

01:02:27.000 They mean they want the ability to disrupt, interrupt, interface with the people that are charged with governing them.

01:02:33.000 It's not the actual crown.

01:02:35.000 The crown is a superficial symbol of inaccessible power.

01:02:39.000 And in a way, Nancy Pelosi is wearing, at very least, a tiara.

01:02:43.000 And former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband have participated in at least eight IPOs.

01:02:50.000 One of those came in 2008 from Visa, just as a troublesome piece of legislation that would have hurt credit card companies began making its way through the House.

01:03:00.000 Undisturbed by a potential conflict of interest, the Pelosi's purchased 5,000 shares of Visa at the initial price of $44.

01:03:08.000 Two days later, it was trading at $64.

01:03:12.000 The credit card legislation never made it to the floor of the House.

01:03:16.000 Congresswoman Pelosi also declined our request for an interview, but agreed to call on us if we attended a news conference.

01:03:22.000 Like a queen, Mike.

01:03:24.000 I'm not doing your interview, but if you attend, I may call upon you.

01:03:28.000 I may dab at you with my scepter.

01:03:31.000 So does democracy look like a hereditary political class where you hear the name Obama a lot and the name Bush a lot and the name Clinton a lot?

01:03:41.000 Is democracy about simply replacing monarchy with another class of people that are ultimately difficult to get rid of and accrue privilege from their position?

01:03:52.000 Or was democracy meant to be something else?

01:03:55.000 And could democracy be something else?

01:03:58.000 I wanted to ask you why you and your husband back in March of 2008 accepted and participated in a very large IPO deal from Visa at a time there was major legislation affecting their credit card companies making its way through the House.

01:04:16.000 And did you consider that to be a conflict of interest?

01:04:20.000 I hope Nancy Pelosi handles this well because this question is being asked with her having had preparatory time.

01:04:25.000 I don't know what your point is of your question.

01:04:27.000 Is there some point that you want to make with that?

01:04:30.000 Well, I guess what I'm asking is, do you think it's all right for a Speaker to accept a very preferential and favorable stock deal?

01:04:40.000 Well, we did.

01:04:40.000 And you participated in the IPO.

01:04:42.000 Well, I have made it a very important question.

01:04:42.000 And at the time you were Speaker of the House.

01:04:44.000 You don't think it was a conflict of interest or had the appearance of a conflict of interest?

01:04:47.000 No, it only has appearance if you decide that you're going to have elaborate on a false premise.

01:04:54.000 But it's not true, and that's that.

01:04:57.000 I don't understand what part's not true.

01:05:00.000 Yes, sir.

01:05:01.000 That I would act upon an investment.

01:05:04.000 When people say they don't want kings, I think what they're saying is they want control and power and authority over their own lives.

01:05:10.000 They don't want systems of intransigent political power where people sit in Congress, accrue vast fortunes, remain in Congress for years, and become alienated and unaccountable.

01:05:23.000 A real American Congress would be representative of the real America. 0.70

01:05:27.000 You could get that data these days.

01:05:29.000 You could say, well, this is what the 330 million Americans look like.

01:05:33.000 And here is a proportional representation, an assembly that represents them geographically, ethnically, economically, and in terms of their interests.

01:05:45.000 We know that Donald Trump has risen to power as a result of broken promises, primarily, I would say, from Democrats.

01:05:52.000 The Democratic Party was long supported by members of trade unions.

01:05:56.000 Those people have felt abandoned and lost.

01:05:59.000 Those people vote in significant numbers for MAGA and for Trump.

01:06:03.000 The reason for that is not because they are racist or because they aren't down with wokeism, it's because the Democrat Party abandoned them because they exploited political opportunity to accrue personal fortunes.

01:06:17.000 The reason that there are kings and sovereigns, ciphers and symbols of power is because that's what people turned to in the wasteland created ironically by the corruption of figures like Nancy Pelosi.

01:06:31.000 If Nancy Pelosi is against corrupt power, she could turn her eye on herself. 0.97

01:06:36.000 And instead of tearing up a plastic crown, she could just have a long word with herself in the mirror and say something along the lines of, Nancy, you gotta stop making money using information that you acquire in Congress.

01:06:47.000 You've got to stop just saying, it's for the children, arbitrarily when you feel like it, and start actually doing things for children.

01:06:54.000 The same protest features Democratic senators Cory Brooker and Adam Schiff leading the crowd in the chant, this is what democracy looks like.

01:07:01.000 But is it if democracy is meant to reflect the will and well-being of ordinary citizens, then the halls of Congress tell a very different story.

01:07:07.000 According to the New York Times, nearly 120 members of Congress are aged 70 or older, with the issues particularly acute among Democrats.

01:07:14.000 Many of these lawmakers have held their seats for decades, creating a political elite that looks more like a hereditary class than a dynamic democracy.

01:07:20.000 Even more troubling, a significant number of them hold and trade stock in the very industries they regulate, blurring the line between public service and private enrichment.

01:07:29.000 As reported by Open Secrets, the majority of lawmakers in Congress are millionaires, making the legislative branch not just the center of political power, but also one of immense personal wealth.

01:07:38.000 To understand the irony, it's worth revisiting the meaning of the word king.

01:07:42.000 In the British tradition, a king rules by divine right, his authority unchallenged, his reign indefinite, his wealth inherited and protected.

01:07:51.000 Citizens may vote, protest and petition, but the monarch remains untouchable.

01:07:55.000 Substitute crowns for congressional seats and royal decrees for committee appointments, and the resemblance to Washington's political establishment becomes difficult to ignore.

01:08:04.000 When politicians remain in office for decades, insulated from accountability and enriched by their positions, they become a kind of new royalty.

01:08:11.000 Political monarchs presiding over a managed democracy.

01:08:15.000 Thus, when Pelosi snaps her plastic crown and Booker and Schiff declare that this is what democracy looks like, they invite the uncomfortable question.

01:08:22.000 Is this truly democracy, a system in which the same lawmakers hold power for generations, accumulate fortunes through the markets they oversee and pass laws that rarely seem to touch their class?

01:08:32.000 Or is it a carefully maintained illusion of a representation in which the ruling elite claim moral authority while the public bears the cost?

01:08:39.000 The no kings rallies may have been intended as a warning against Trump, but they serve as an inadvertent reflection on the state of American governance itself.

01:08:46.000 A true democracy demands renewal, accountability, transparency and turnover of power.

01:08:50.000 Instead, the American system has calcified into a form of electoral aristocracy where longevity and wealth are the new systems of authority.

01:08:56.000 The hypocrisy is not in the message that no one should be a king, but in who is delivering it.

01:09:00.000 If democracy is to be more than a slogan chanted on the steps of Congress, it must start with those already in power relinquishing their crowns, nor the plastic ones they break for the cameras, but the invisible ones they've worn for decades.

01:09:11.000 So will those in power relinquish the invisible crowns that they've been wearing for decades?

01:09:16.000 Will America return to her glorious roots?

01:09:20.000 A country that threw off the shackles of imperial power, that built a nation on the right to pursue happiness, the sovereignty of every individual.

01:09:29.000 And we all know there were mistakes and there was corruption and there was slavery and there were genocide and there were a million terrible things that we could focus on.

01:09:36.000 And yet, within all of that, this still is the greatest country in the world.

01:09:42.000 This still is a country alive with possibility.

01:09:45.000 And whilst Donald Trump might be the end of something rather than the beginning of something, I still believe very deeply in the potential for America to deliver real and true democracy.

01:09:56.000 That's just what I think.

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01:11:29.000 We're going to teach you how to be as amazing as him and use your voice to spread the truth.

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