Russell Brand has suggested that young people should not vote, their collective act of indifference sparking crisis, then revolution.He delivered his polemic on Newsnight in his usual baroque lexicon, like a child keeping pace with a runaway autocue.
His enemies were the usual suspects. Broadly, capitalism, and, more especially, profit, climate vandals, military-industrial conglomerates and complacent elites.
He wanted equality imposed - the poor brought up, the rich dashed down.
As an aside, he made a quip about his misery that West Ham had gone down 3-0 against Manchester City.
Guess what? He aspired for his team to do better.
It's not an unnatural thought. Ug, in his draughty cave, imagined spearing two mammoth a season, not just the one. With two he could feed his family and trade the surplus for insulation.
He was busy working on Spear 2.0 so Ug Junior, when his time came, could capture three. He wanted better for now and better still for his children.
A couple of millennia down the road, if Ug had not strived his ancestors would be living in a world without the iPad Air and Brawn Exact Series nose trimmer and dodgy remakes of Arthur.
Brand failed to recognise that the poor think of themselves as the rich waiting to happen.
And his revolution would lead to a succession of mandated 0-0 draws and no-one, least of all the dandy himself, could tolerate such a colourless fate.
