Jack Brennan

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Matthew Stone and friends interview Jack Brennan.

Matthew Stone: What do you have faith in?

Jack Brennan: Not much. Maths. Some Science. I like Darwinism.


MS: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?

JB: Here I'm slightly fatalistic. We are changing the world, by heating it up for instance. In this area we need to achieve controlled nuclear fusion power production, because no one is going to change.
If the question means "how can we young leftists change the world for the better?", then I think that we have to chuck out the notion of slipping through the cracks of our crappy society whilst enjoying an interstitial bohemian lifestyle. I'm against this slogan from 1968: "Be realistic: demand the impossible"; it's a recipe for impotence, because it's easy to refuse the impossible. When you make a just demand for a freedom, it should be impossible to refuse! Then you highlight something negative in a government. I think what needs to be done is more action, maybe violence, and certainly a willingness to take leadership. So, strange as the idea of revolution in the UK is, maybe we should all start doing push-ups in case things get rough.


Kate Moross: If you had the choice between either being able to manipulate space or time which one would you choose, and what would you do?

JB: I think that there is a way to show that these two powers are fairly equivalent in Special Relativity, but I'm just going to go for TIME. I'd use all of the extra TIME I had to learn languages and then fly to other countries in seconds. If I got bored, I'd speed up my bodyclock and die of old age, tomorrow.


Nicola Lane: What does success mean to you?

JB: I'm really stumped by this one. I think I'd rather not succeed, just have a good reason for not doing so.


Terence Koh : NOTHING MORE NEED BEE SAID?

JB: I like this question. That's kind of the state I am aiming for...


MS: What question should be added to this list?

JB: What film fits your vision of the future best and why? (The film needn't be set in the future)

Kate Moross

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Matthew Stone and friends interview Kate Moross.

Matthew Stone: What do you have faith in?

Space, time and complex carbohydrates. Right now they are the only three things I trust. I am not a spiritual person. Instead I indulge in science and theory to satisfy my curiosities and answers to life's questions. Carbs, carbs are amazing, if they didn't exist myself and the rest of the human population would have withered away.

MS: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?

I have no interest in all this global-warming-save-the-planet bullshit. Its going to happen. Yes the world will end. I'm sure "destroy the earth" is written into our genetic code. We are the selfish race after all. So I say, lets go DIY, and start at home. Say please and thank you, be nice to the bus driver, care for our old, care for our young and our sick. Its simple really, the only effects we can really have day to day are through the little things, the beauty is in the details, right?

Steph Raynor: Are we anywhere near where we need to be?

I'd say, Yes. If we substitute "we" for "human race" I think we are pretty awesome. Focus on the bad things, corruption, war,bla bla bla and you are likely to think that we are a complete mess. However look at what good is happening, it seems that as a race, collectively, we are reaching even higher levels of Maslow's pyramid. I think there are a lot of amazing investigations and experiments ongoing in science and the arts, that make me proud to be a human. You only have to watch a handful of the TED talks to realise that it is genuinely really exciting to be alive.

Todd Hart: What's the best example of Art really changing the world for the better?

Art will never change the world. It may nudge it and morph it in places, but like matter it can never be created or destroyed. Art it is formed out of what is going on and is then eventually reabsorbed, in one way or another.

Boo Saville: What do you think happens when we die?

Sweet Fuck All. We die. We get eaten by worms, and then we make the grass greener. Dying is simple. Its the grieving thats the hard part.

MS: What question should be added to this list?

Kate Moross: If you had the choice between either being able to manipulate space or time which one would you choose, and what would you do?