Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

by Russell Brand

God was an abstract authority icon used to placate the many so that the few could act with impunity.

If you’re chugging through life in a job you kind of dislike, a relationship that you are detached from, eating to cope, staring at Facebook, smoking and fruitlessly fantasizing, you can sit glumly on that conveyor belt of unconscious discontent until it deposits you in your grave.