Depp Vs Heard Distraction: What I Have Realised

Amber Heard will be testifying in the Johnny Depp trial this week as it continues what do we learn about addiction relationships and the increasingly bizarre spectacle of celebrity hello there you 5.6 billion Awakening wonders Together We Grow the light shines brighter we awaken together if you don't subscribe to this channel yet subscribe to this channel now and if you ain't turned on the notification Bell clanging away in your mind continually dinging away on your phone never letting you have a moment to yourself to reflect then turn it on now if you'd be so kind let's have a look together at the ongoing Johnny Depp Amber Hood defamation trial we did a video about it last week but the spectacle continues the interest continues what is it about this trial that has captivated the world's attention is it because the coronavirus pandemic has acceded into the background is it because people can't take ongoing horror of Ukrainian war reportage is it that we continue ultimately to be magnetized towards pain and suffering something about it draws Us in let's have a look at some of the coverage from our old friends on the mainstream media who as you know I believe we can rely on for versions of the truth almost any time day or night all eyes continue to be transfixed it's very nice but your eyes are trans fixed on something is it that means that you've got no choice that your eyes have sort of been glued to it and in a sense that's an accurate piece of reporting because you can't look away have you ever been in a hold up on a freeway or Motorway then when you've got to the point realize that it's on the other side of the road and the only reason that there's a traffic jam is because people are slowing down to look there was no actual obstacle this is a curious time for our culture and a lot of things are circling around this trial a lot of emotions a lot of unconscious energy is being processed a lot of fear a lot of loathing and given that it's Johnny Depp who usually plays Hannah rest Thompson about once a month is a good thing on the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard 50 million dollar defamation trial best thing is that defamation and defecation conveniently rhyme so there'll be a good hip-hop song about this one though welcome everyone to Entertainment Tonight also welcome everyone throughout the time welcome let's have a look look at these poor bastards lives falling apart like there's still the sort of politeness and sort of Grace and protocols as if you'll be welcomed into someone's house come come into our house now look at Johnny and Amber they've [ __ ] their lives up look look at this there's their buttholes look can we just be honest we can't look away oh no no not at all we can look away we can't and we must surely at some point we must turn within and recognize that we're projecting our own inner angst onto this matter but you're talking about it now Russell I know I know I'm in there with you I'm in the Cyclone I'm trapped in the hurricane myself from the ex's former agent Christian Carino what is your understanding of why Mr Debb's last favorite set it was related to the accusations that Amber has made in a sense is an absolutely identifiable and recognizable situation all of us know people whose relationships or marriages break down all of us recognize the complexity when you listen to both sides of the story that you're dealing with human beings that are fallible and flawed and that will ultimately break down who are incapable of being perfect and you know don't you from your own life that it's in your relationships where you suffer the worst aspects of yourself and the other person I'm really lovely a perfect strangers the less I know you and the more you'll like me but in my home where I'm confronted with my inadequacies and insecurities these things are processed in real time unfiltered you know so we all recognize that aspect of it I suppose what's troubling is to see the whole thing sort of soaked in glitter and lit up in Limelight and turned into entertainment and monetized you know when it becomes about defamation of character which is literally what it's about that defamation of character has to be tied to loss of earnings so suddenly we're looking at a world where all of the metrics are supplied by Financial barometers it's interesting isn't it because when we talk about fundamentalist ideologies that we usually mean something religious and something abstract without recognizing that we already live within one where every decision we make every opinion we form our perspectives are cultivated and sculpted by economic models where economics meets the culture a long time employee of Johnny Depp has testified that Amber Heard told him that defecating in the former couple's bed in 2016 was a quote practical joke gone wrong with Batman music playing defecating in the bed was a practical joke gone wrong defecating in the former couple's bed in 2016. I'm [ __ ] I'm [ __ ] I'm [ __ ] on your pillow uh-huh I'm weeping like a willow where did I love go wrong was a quote practical joke gone wrong I think if a practical joke includes [ __ ] in a bed where is that funny thinking about my own life as a drug addict I ain't ever thought it was funny to [ __ ] in a bed it's always been something of a tragedy during his live video call testimony on Thursday Starling Jenkins spoke out about a past incident that occurred when the Aquaman actress allegedly defecated in the Pirates of the Caribbean star's bed so okay this is reality the pandemics just ended the war in Ukraine is ongoing none of us trust our government big businesses or the media and another thing also the star of Aquaman a shot in the star of pirates of the Caribbean's bed allegedly my favorite bit was when Johnny Depp was saying that it couldn't be a teacup Yorkie they're very small dogs I've lived with these dogs for years their anuses are like little tear ducts this was a feces that could only have come from someone in Aquaman allegedly saying that Hurd had told him it was a quote horrible practical joke gone wrong well I don't see a version of that joke where it's where is the success to you that was like oh nice one nice one like it the thing is with a practical joke is that there has to be a moment where you go not really it was just a practical joke right so in the practical joke where you've sat on someone's bed what's the equivalent of that you've got to be I didn't really [ __ ] on your bed I would not [ __ ] on your bed [ __ ] on someone's bed is not funny if the end of the practical joke is I did actually [ __ ] on your bed that's not a practical joke that you've sat on the bed what's the reveal like ta-da gotta be some sort of relief you're not letting attention out the tension's still there on the bed stinking Johnny Depp had previously taken the stand a day earlier on Wednesday where he also testified about the alleged incident explaining he was shown a picture of the bed saying on his side of their bed there was quote human fecal matter Johnny Depp's gotta say that one oh God oh God he's so terrible it's so terrible and awful ridiculous the world of celebrity I feel sort of like a PTSD around like remembering my own experiences of Fame having to look at a picture of it and there's my wife Susan uh here are our dogs there's me bungee jumping there's a [ __ ] on your side of the bed I have someone out of Aquaman what what was that last one saying that his initial response to the situation was that he laughed well there you go successful joke well done heard previously claimed the couple's dogs to Yorkshire Terriers were responsible for the incident this joke went so it's not a murder or something wasn't it that practical joke I thought it would be funny it wasn't me it was the Yorkshire Terriers I'll see you in court grainy body cam footage was also shown from the night cops received a domestic violence call in 2016. now it's gone from Judge Judy to CSI how many entertainment formats do you want to wrap around this human misery but is Johnny distracted this clip of the actor doodling a portrait on a Post-It went viral on Tick Tock it's better than my wife's doodle I'll tell you that her turtles stuck out the bedroom at least when I doodle I do it in ink and remember how Amber seemed to be copying Johnny's courtroom fashion copy cat fashion many thought she was trolling him but the psychologist explained it could be another symptom look at those thighs see this tie this time the problem I think as well as Marshall mcluhan said is the medium is the message so it's the same little box or same little screen that we end up looking at this one minute telling us about some terrible tragedy some War some pandemic and we've continually being stimulated it's difficult to assess and categorize the criteria by which we judge reality it's all just bombarding us we're not really evolved to deal with this level of stimuli that even things like war and pandemic which are you know so serious things with grave consequences let alone this peculiar kind of theater these things I guess we are evolved to deal with on a localized scale groups of a hundred people 100 have a little primates just like us we're not evolved to deal with this saccharine over stimulating methamphetamine media continually kind of jolting us defibrillating in Us in the states of anxiety and fear and I think ultimately nihilism because this is ultimately a spectacle whilst there is real meaning to be found you know addiction is a serious subject domestic abuse which is alleged here is a serious subject the breakdown of a relationship is a serious subject the whole thing is packaged in so much triviality so much uh titillation scatology it's very difficult to know what's real in the world anymore particularly as you like go from one minute watching like you know this this is the death toll for the war in Ukraine this is like Amber the legend of shout on a bed pandemic to wear masks don't wear masks like are we meant to trust these media machines how are we men are trust their own emotions well I'll tell you as best I can recognize it as a spectacle recognize that everything that comes through it is to a degree of spectacle that's not to say that everything you see on the news is not true that's to say that everyone in the news has to be assessed as entertainment because when they're presented to you they know they need to entertain you otherwise you won't look at it I'm even aware of doing that right now on this channel creating content that hopefully you'll stay with watch like subscribe all of our requirements economic and ideological as content providers I hope perhaps I pray that there is a distinction because what I sincerely hope you is that you awaken from the dream of the reality they're giving you into the great Truth The Light Within you that you already have everything you need that none of this stuff ultimately matters that you have the power and the ability to reform your life particularly in conjunction with others and especially if your goal is not always pleasure and self-satisfaction and I'm saying that to myself as much as I'm saying it to you because I don't think I'm any better than you I live in the world you live in I feel the emotions you feel I'm distracted in the way you're distracted but I do believe that together we can change it I'm in a lot of ways it might mimic the way they dress people with this disorder actually take on the identity of the people they're spending time with because it's comforting let's see how the print media regarded it the guardian the unedefined testimony provided by succession of AIDS agents concierge doctors psychoanalysts housekeepers dormant and bodyguards has left the impression of an appalling lifestyle environment that might have been bought to account sooner if there were fewer resources and enablers to support it I would have required that each of them being an abstinence only program with random drug tests that confirm their level of sobriety and I would have required both to do 12-step work said New York therapist Darcy Sterling as a person in a 12-step program myself the details of which I do not talk about publicly but generally I find it helpful to talk about as part of my own commitment to spreading a message is that we must find a way past our accreted trauma so that we can become the people we truly are and be of service to others while my own life is an ongoing struggle against selfishness and self-centeredness through practicing these principles in my Affairs I do become free of many of the challenges of Behavioral addiction and substance misuse that dogged my life for many many years so seeing the sort of the spectacle of people who are perhaps in the grips of some form of addiction based on what they have said themselves and based on what's come out throughout the trial I would certainly say that a 12-step program is a way out of it and also the fact that it's a good reminder for the rest of us that the lifestyle of celebrity Fame the paraphernalia the apparent glory is a simulacrum as a kind of a synthesis of beauty rather than Beauty itself which can only be found by engaging inwardly and living a life of purpose and meaning but you don't need me to tell you that the step work is the work that deflates the ego the arrogance the propensity to view oneself as a victim with no role in the consequences of their life so they could come together without pointing fingers at the other others afraid that the trial coming soon after the Will Smith Chris Rock Oscar slap has brought the entire construct of Hollywood celebrity into disrepute as a dissertation on Fame as a personal curse reenacted in a Suburban courtroom certainly it's done that job if you think the origins of drama and fear come from this same ignition as religion certainly in terms of classical theater and classical religion one is the Pagan and shamanic impulse to Transcendent all the states and the other is the impulse to render that in the form of narratives and storytelling they help us understand our own emotions our own relationships and our own conflict it's like there is a deep truth available here but one of those deep truths is that we've become distracted by something that exists primarily for you know economic reasons and indeed to distract us from real meaning rather than directing us towards real meaning which Aristotle in Poetics describes as being the point of drama the point of tragedy the point of fear to highlight and enliven our sense of Reason understanding meaning and purpose Derek long assistant professor of media and Cinema studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said that movie stardom culturally is less important than it used to be by virtue of the fact that the media landscape is fractured and everyone constructs their own personal Garden Of Interest in terms of disgusting under Hollywood's old Studio system somewhat reconstructed in the streaming era of Netflix stars and their images were closely managed and protected by Studio Chiefs and publicity departments there were scandals but morality Clauses and Studio infrastructure had ways of managing it in the first place or at least The Narrative of it in the Press once it occurred in a pre-metu era there was more of an understanding that terrible things were going to happen and most of their efforts went into damage control not prevention said long celebrity bad behavior or Scandal of any stripe there's a lot more in the open now and Scandal has become part of the popular discourse stardom has always been about selling the sense that stars are just like us implicit in that commodification was good behavior the stars were just like you were home they bake cakes and they use this or that brand of household cleaner when all that bad behavior that goes along with stars being human beings is revealed it disturbs people so there we are in a sense this mad spectacle can be used as a lens for us to scrutinize or at least better understand our own fallibility and our own Humanity we can also use it as a way to detach from the spectacle itself recognizing what its function is that there has always been an element of deception that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are human beings both on scales of fallibility and Humanity both looking for meaning and purpose both have been sucked into a system that I have some experience of that may not in itself be malevolent but because of its Financial imperatives ends up ultimately participating in systems that require the extraction of certain complex aspects of reality and that amounts to creating propaganda in the end it can't tell you the truth and we want to tell you the truth on this channel that you are beautiful but that you are flawed that I'm not better than you but I'm not worse than you but we have to have systems of forgiveness and redemption in place that we have to have social systems where we connect to one another where we have shared meaning and purpose where we're not so dreadfully disconnected from money and power that our own lives feel like empty theater so we have to import meaning from screens because our own lives we just trudge around Hollow out High streets and Main Streets shops that pipe in advertising music no local businesses no local community so we're forced to artificially stimulate that impulsing ourselves by absorbing all of this empty shallow Hollow valueless vapid stuff that's not value on the protagonists who I believe are beautiful human beings on their way to the light but on the systems itself but that's just why I think what do you think let me know in the comments below how would you like to see this covered what do you think is the responsibility of the media how will Hollywood change how will entertainment change what are you going to do with your own life so that you can free 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Published: Tue May 03 2022