Guardian Unlimited - Charlie Brooker: This is not dumbing down - it’s dizzying madness
I wanted to run into the street, without even pausing to wipe, and hurl myself, boggle-eyed, at passers-by, flapping the magazine around, screaming: “HELP! WE’VE LOST OUR MINDS! I HAVE PROOF! I HAVE PROOF.”
But I didn’t. I stayed put; pooing and afraid.
And I thought: Our leaders lie, and we know they have lied, and there is war in our name, and the world kicks and boils itself to death and we do nothing but stare into the tiny grinning faces of people we don’t even know; faces that are, apparently, more “fast, easy and practical” than language itself.
I give us six years, tops.
Posted on January 8th, 2007 at 9:46 am
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I presume you would have to subscribe to Sky to get this magazine.
I don’t think I have ever read a [published] more accurate description of the media , the way this country is heading and the comptempt in which intelligence is now held.
‘“fast, easy and practical†than language itself.’ - anybody got a copy of the sun?
Perhaps with people as coarse as Brooker we will start to see less and less empty air-headed-meaningless celebrity in the media and in life generally, untill eventually, one hopes, it has DISSAPEARED ENTIRELY.
I rate this article:
Michael Jackson with a bit of Christopher Lee and a dash of Vicky Pollard.
Sorry no pictures you will have to use your imagination.
Well, having Sky is optional, as indeed is the Idiot’s Lantern. (Although someone I know who is gogglebox-less is regularly hassled by the Television Tax Commisars)
The article is a bit distasteful really, I’m not particularly interested in how smelly his excrement is which he used as a metaphor, as well as probably to shock. Shitting remains a non-community activity in my circles and we all politely keep up the pretence socially that it doesn’t happen. Maybe the Roman approach would work better, but I’d rather give it a miss, thanks.
Is the dumbing down of Britain a conspiracy in order to be subsequently infantalised by the EU for our own good?
I’m an individualist and of libertarian leanings- if people want to make nothing of their lives then let them- but I don’t want to pay for it.