Reign of the replicants?
Mar. 8th, 2010 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I don't think those airbrushed adverts of David Cameron have done him any favours, if Charlie Brooker is anything to go by:
Cameron in particular looks like a boring dot-eyed "nice" neighbour from an underwhelming Christian soap opera. He's a replicant; an Auton; a humanoid; a piece of adaptive software that's learned to appeal to your likes and dislikes – "customers who bought Tony Blair also bought the following" – but inadvertently creeped you out in the process. Let's face it: if you discovered he doesn't have a belly button or any pubic hair, and spends one night each week lying semi-conscious, face-down, "recharging" inside a giant white laboratory pod filled with amniotic fluid, you wouldn't be entirely surprised. And voters are likely to sense that eerie unearthliness. He'd better stutter or fluff a few times, just to throw them off the scent.