#211 Fighting Corruption Using a Spiritual Perspective (with Sarah Chayes)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week’s episode is fantastic! I am joined by Sarah Chayes, who was recommended to me during my episode with Sebastian Junger. Sarah Chayes is an author and a journalist, and has worked as a political advisor. She writes primarily about the nature of corruption. Her books include Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, and most recently: On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake which is coming out in paperback in the US next week. This is a fascinating conversation with someone who possesses incredible experience. Sarah talks about her time in Afghanistan, her stint as a political advisor to the military, and her understanding of corruption that exists at every level of power. We get deep and philosophical about how this affects us as humans, and how we can fight corruption. In the UK Sarah’s book On Corruption in America is titled Everybody Knows: Corruption in America if you’re looking to buy a copy.More Info: Get Sarah’s books here: https://www.sarahchayes.org/books Come see me live; check out upcoming dates: https://www.russellbrand.com/live-dates/ My meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is out now, only on Luminary. I will be releasing guided meditations every Wednesday. Please check it out: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. (*not a euphemism) Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. Sarah Chaz is an author, a journalist,
0:04.4	and has worked as a political advisor. She lived in Afghanistan for God's sake and advised the
0:09.2	Pentagon. She writes primarily about the nature of corruption. Her books include Theaves of State,
0:14.4	Why Corruption, Threatens, Global Security, and most recently, everybody knows corruption in America.
0:19.6	This is coming out in paperback on 16th and November in the US. However, it's titled as different
0:24.5	in the US. There it's called Corruption in America. It's not that bad. That's not called that. It's
0:30.0	called Corruption in America and why is it steak. Sebastian Nyunga recommended Sarah when he
0:35.4	joined me on Under the Skin recently. Now that Under the Skin is on Apple podcasts, please leave a
0:39.9	review there. It helps us and I'll read them out. If you'd like to listen to the rest of this
0:43.6	podcast and all of my weekly Under the Skin podcast, all you have to do is subscribe to Luminary
0:47.5	and Apple podcasts or download the Luminary app. Also, I have a meditation podcast on Apple
0:52.4	called Above the Noise. That's not Luminary, actually, but go on there. In this part, we talk about
0:59.2	an arcosyndicalism and real change, the possibility of real change. I think you're going to like
1:05.6	this conversation. We talk about how many things we assume are just normal, but are actually
1:10.0	structures of the system. Just one example, GDP growth. Why would you have that as the determinate
1:16.8	for not only reality, but even more specifically, economic reality that all of these metrics could
1:23.6	be altered? We talk about some good stuff, man. You'll love this conversation. See for yourself.
1:29.2	Trying to achieve a quality with the annihilation of category is not successful. That's exactly right.
1:35.9	We're in this era where it turns out we were never the fast. What's beneath the surface of people
1:43.2	with my ideas that define our time, the history we're told? Welcome to Russell Brand.
1:50.1	Under this game. From what you said early on about the revolving door metaphor, it's more that the
1:56.4	problem is the door rather than the individuals that are passing through it. That there is a systemic
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