Jack Blake's Reviews > Revolution

As far as the writing and entertainment value - brilliant. He is one the most entertaining writers of our time (the Guardian & New Statesman essays), and off the back of the Paxo interview, it was obviously necessary for him to back up his claims thoroughly for his revolution to be taken seriously. And this was done in his distinct, typically articulate way. Yeah, he may have slightly irritating ways of making his point (superfluous soliloquies that terminate an otherwise great paragraph)...with a peppering of inflated ego and useless anecdotes about 'my mate Nik, or my mate Daniel' but its Russell Brand for fuck sake - what were you expecting?

He's done his research. He has. Maybe not to a Christopher Hitchens or Noam Chomsky level, but enough to engage with the general public and raise some questions that otherwise, the average Joe would simply not know he could ask. Taking Brand out of the equation, do the points raised have a relation to our society? Even if they seem superficial or obvious? They did on me and, as far as the facts go regarding our physical planet on which you also live, they most definitely do on you too. Most reviews are boring me now - "a peripheral analysis, an egocentric's shallow manifesto etc etc etc" Ok we get it - he shouldn't be talking about things he knows nothing about - he's an ex junkie, sex addict blah blah blah. Lets forget the author then, lets actually have a review about the points raised instead of his "peripheral and obvious analysis that any moron could have done". Are we ok with the way our planet, government, rights and co-humans are being run by a very small empowered elite? Of course not. Obviously. Well, if there so fucking obvious then why is nothing being done about them?

Whether you like him or not, he's just a comedian with an opinion. If you like it or you don't, the facts remain: we are using our planets non-renewable resources at an disturbing rate, the 85 richest people own more money than the 3.5 billion poorest... an apple is grown in Kent, then flown to South Africa to be polished and flown back to be sold in Kent.

It's hardly a Jihad-esque call to arms, just a seemingly lonely cry in the wilderness of our increasingly bastardised, segregated, socially imbalanced and naturally-exhausted world to wake up and ask some questions to the people who run our world. The elite arena where you were once only allowed to ask these questions has expanded. As a citizen of the world you have a right to know what is going on - who gives a toss if you appear naive, its probably too late to carry on the way we are so lets at least have a go at trying to change it.