Blind Faith ~ Ben Elton
02/01/08 07:43 Filed in: BotTF
Summary: The world gone mad, a modern day Sodom and Gomorra.
I will never look at blogging the same way again. I am a recent blogger.. in the last couple of months. I used to wonder who reads all the crap that people blog about and why on earth would they read it? Now, I don't really care who reads it, I have fallen foul of the supposed anonymity of the Internet age. There are a group of us at work who blog about different things and it's interesting to read the thoughts that are put down. Sometimes I guess it's easier to write it than to say it. Would we blog about what we personally would consider private? I seriously doubt it. I do consider blogging as an interesting exercise in communication, however.
In Ben Elton's Blind Faith, blogging is now compulsory. In fact privacy is now considered unhealthy and is actually illegal. The world he describes has turned away from scientific reason and fact and instead has corrupted the word of God, and making it illegal to be an individual thinker. Vaccinations are outlawed as being blasphemous. One in two children die of preventable diseases for this is the will of God. By Law you are Famous. By Law you cannot be discriminated against regardless of the circumstance. You are required to blog at least once a day and stream your every waking moment to the net where it can be viewed by all and sundry, including the Temple and their Confessors who require it of you.
Ben Elton describes a scary world. One in the post apocalyptic time after the flood caused by global warming. A world that is oh-so-very-close.