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Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
Broadcaster
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I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.
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We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of London, now Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson was widely seen as a cartoonish oaf and that made him strangely undentable as a politician. No one could land a blow on him because he was already ridiculous.
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As long as we've still got crazy what if ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.
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I've always had a bad attention span.
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I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.
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I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.
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Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.
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Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.
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I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.
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What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six stories this time around, so you don't want it to just be the devastating, bleak-em-up.
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Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.
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Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.
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What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.
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I can worry about anything.
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Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.
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Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].
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If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?
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I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.
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'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.
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In summary, our world is doomed.
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