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Marek wonders if Charlie Brooker "summer of rage" is for real at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/02/charlie-brooker-politicians

Submitted by maz on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 13:43
Link: Marek wonders if Charlie Brooker "summer of rage" is for real at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/02/charlie-brooker-politicians

Thing is, they could get away with this bullshit while times were good, while people were comfortable enough to ignore what was happening; when people were focusing on plasma TVs and iPods and celebrity gossip instead of what the politicians were doing - not because they’re stupid, but because they know a closed shop when they see one. But now it looks as if those times are at an end, and more and more of us are pulling the dreampipes from the back of our skulls, undergoing a negative epiphany; blinking into the cold light of day.

Consequently the police are preparing for a “summer of rage”.

— Charlie Brooker, “To politicians, we’re little more than meaningless blobs on a monitor. Bring on the summer of rage”, The Guardian, 2nd March 2009

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