Ben Elton ~ Blind Faith

This is 1984 for the blogging, myspace, Oprah generation, sharing their hideously pointless and boring lives with the world 24/7. It's like big brother meets big blogger. This would be a very funny book (it is) if it did not cut so close to the bone. In our politically correct world , that's infested with CCTV and T.V. reality after T.V. reality shows, this novels reads like a future prediction of 10 years from now. I just loved the idea of a law being passed that meant that everybody was a celebrity.

Synopsis
As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Better than his fellow man and woman? Does he have something to hide?Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person 'feels' and 'truly believes' is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith. Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex obsessed, self-centric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom and privacy is a dangerous perversion. It offers a chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to what we call reality?"

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Sir David Frost talks to comedian and novelist Ben Elton about his latest novel 'Blind Faith' and how intellect is being sidelined in favour of faith and feelings.