A wilted pale flower rests on an empty wooden chair in a softly lit blue room.

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Russell Brand

The blunt, pathetic reality today is that a little old lady has died, who in the winter of her life had to water roses alone under police supervision. If you behave like there’s no such thing as society, in the end there isn’t.

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The speaker presents an elderly woman's lonely death as a blunt, pitiful reality and uses it as evidence for a warning. In their view, a community that acts as though society does not exist will eventually find that it truly has stopped existing.

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