The recent event at the Cricket World Cup, with members of the England Cricket Team being caught out drinking and being reported by fans, has surprised some. But why? Britain is fast becoming a surveillance society. There are more CCTV cameras per person than anywhere else. There is a national addiction to mobile phones/cameras. Life in Britain has become one long reality TV experiment, if you're not filming someone, you're probably being filmed.
People report on one another, take photos or film incidents as 'proof'. In Rumania in the past it was thought that one in three people was an informer on their neighbours/friends/families . . . recently released reports from East Germany again demonstrate the extent of people informing on one another. These were people living under difficult circumstances, being coerced by the authorities.
However, what we now see is that coercion is not needed, for Brits at least. The obsession with what other people are doing, or might be doing, is developing a society of spies, telling tales on one another like immature, fearful four year olds.
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