Ben Elton pri Frostu na Al Jazeeri. Watch it:

Z Amazona o njegovi knjigi Blind Faith:

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?

V svojem pogovoru s Frostom, Ben Elton govori o družbi, v kateri hočejo biti vsi slavni, omeni tudi bloge. Kakor sam gledam na to stvar, ima Elton popolnoma prav. Družba postaja vedno bolj poneumljena; medtem ko bi se morali truditi za racionalno družbo, se nam vračajo razne vraže, astrologa ali jasnovidca bi morali počasi jemati enako resno kot strojnega tehnika ali univerzitetnega profesorja.