Neo Cro-magnon

You can find here a 33 minutes video of Marina Hyde interviewing  Charlie Brooker.

It’s definitely worth watching and gives a funny look into how people from the entertainment industry, interact with public’s criticism thanks to the internet.

Some people think we’re now more rude and stupid, but to be honest I think the internet is only doing what medicine has done for us.

Years ago you would have died of anything. Now thanks to medicine we can live longer, but that highlights problems that normally would have killed people without the treatment. So are we more sick? No, the people who get sick live to tell us about it, that’s all (probably, perhaps, maybe)

The same thing with stupidity, are we more stupid? No, the people who are stupid can demonstrate it on the internet.

This morning’s column by Charlie Brooker exposes one of the most feared concepts we can think of.

Fear of what we don’t know.

The ‘rant’ explains the oil-trading company Trafigura attempt to silent the newspaper Guardian and stop them from talking about Trafigura’s toxic waste dumping methods.

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It is an excellent reading and a herculean effort of a column for a Monday morning.

I would like to thank holdingonfortomorrow for the great concept that is a ‘Shotgun of Truth’