Author Topic: Russell Brand as a celebrity ambassador for BitShares. Discuss...  (Read 4231 times)

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Offline evolvo

FUCK no...dude has the political acumen of a college freshman without the nuance...and he's an anti-semite to boot....all he has is charisma and a british accent which apparently is enough to make a lot of unsophisticated thinkers believe he has anything of relevance to say
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Some of his thinking is a little wooly
+5% I'd say it's really woolly.

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An intriguing idea, pseudoscops! agree BitShares will need to win over some public heroes/celebs who help it to gain in popularity.

I wasn't aware of Brand's transformation - this is wellcome development indeed! Still, even though some forum members prefer controversy, I tend to think the less controversy with regards to prospective early ambassadors the better. We don't want to expose BitShares to impersonated attacs, widely respected and more neutral ambassadors with economy, academia, business and political exprerience would imho be better even if they generate less publicity. I sense political leanings and spirituality in BTS community are quite diverse. Russel would probably be strongy opposed by the libertarian and scientific crowd on here. Even though we are here for decentralised revolution, the public doesn't like revolution, they should be presented with evolution.


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What political system does Brand advocate?

“A socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth, heavy taxation of corporate responsibility for energy companies and any companies exploiting the environment. I think the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced.”

The guy might be articulate & genuinley concerned for the problems of the world but I don't think a man who favours centralisation of power is the most ideal celebrity ambassador to advocate for decentralised autonomous co-operatives or companies.

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I've been thinking about my concerns about the difficulty of marketing the Community message. But I'm starting to realise that it might be a necessity and very powerful if we can actually pull it off. Though I still much prefer Digital Autonmous Cooperative. Community will spring forth around such a Cooperative.

I do however think we're going to find it difficult to get people to listen to Community/Cooperative message if the words seem to come from us technologists/crypto-geeks. I am of the belief that we need to ally ourselves with charismatic 'celebrities' sympathetic to our cause as a route to wider recognition. Celebrity ambassadors if you will.

I think we should target Russell Brand as our first celebrity ambassador. Watch Russell in action here:

http://youtu.be/_bKQXmvdr8o?list=PLxwJqOkxQ7PEUWv_OTq7DRPAEpFzvLfMO

I've been following Russell's transformation over the last few years. A transformation from a self indulgent and slightly irritating spoiled UK/Hollywood celeb to where he seems to be now. That is to say, a passionate, intelligent and enlightened man desperate to get your average Joe to wake up to the fact that the system is shafting them and that we are destroying the planet as a result of this system that to some degree enslaves us all. If we really need to push the Community message he could be the man to do it if we could actually get him on board. Here's a clip of him talking to The Independent, a major UK newspaper, this week:

http://bcove.me/dmvicbvq

After watching this I thought wow, if only he knew about BitShares and the discussion going on here on the forums right now. If he did know about BitShares, perhaps he could expand on the bit where he mentions we can change things 'using the technology that already exists.' His message is almost a perfect fit. The video came from this article:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/if-you-think-russell-brands-new-book-is-confused-you-should-read-what-his-critics-have-to-say-about-it-9829224.html

The above article sarcastically agrees with some of the sneering and jeering press that has been directed at Russell this week. In fact the Independent article is backing up his message.

Russell recently released a book called Revolution. Some of his thinking is a little wooly, but I think with the structure, brains and community of BitShares backing up what is a similar message we could be extremely good bedfellows. I think his involvement in the BitShares project would act as a force multiplier for what we are trying to do here and what he seems to be trying get people to wake up to also.

Some people here in the UK really dislike him, usually because they believe he's a shameless self promoter or just find him irritating. I don't actually think he is interested in self promotion anymore, I think he really believes in this stuff. Whichever is true, and I'm certain it's the latter, I  think he'd be a massive asset to the team here if we could explain BitShares to him and get him on board.

He's intelligent and sharp and he'd get BitShares pretty quickly I think and work out how to explain it in simple terms so people would understand it. Here's another link to his 'Trews' channel on YouTube for those interesting in getting a steer on where he is coming from.

https://www.youtube.com/user/russellbrand

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