If technology is a drug โ and it does feel like a drug โ then what, precisely, are the side-effects?
Charlie BrookerWhenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.
Charlie BrookerThe internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional โlive audienceโ quickly conspire to create a โperfect stormโ of perpetual bickering.
Charlie BrookerI'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.
Charlie Brooker