Change the world in one easy lesson

Well, if the Guardian book of the month is anything to go by, the solution to your existential crisis comes in the form of a tightly bound and neatly pressed volume on your new favourite hobby: Protesting!

Although, we haven't read it, and therefore can't review it, Rebel Rebel, The Protestor's Handbook comes at a particularly appropriate time considering the Olympic Torch's treatment as it made it's way through London, and shows how the notion of reclaiming the streets has become something that tickles the willy of even the stuffy middle-classes - a bit like going for a picnic or taking to the hills for a Sunday afternoon.

In fact, it's not unusual to see protest pictures in the newspapers of whole families, displaying the signs that they've made and smiling manically amongst the crowd. It's a strange blend of Disney Land for the Fight Club generation meets the Where's Wally? books.

Obviously, we're not against protesting in any way shape or form if it's justified and organised. But after watching some of the morons that have tried to save the world by prancing about in front of the TV cameras as they wrestled with Olympic Torch, it seems that a fair amount of people prefer protesting to be seen rather than to actually change anything.

Maybe a manual on how to protest will help protestors that genuinely want to change the world, but as the book is selling itself on 'making yourself heard', we can't help but envisage it getting into the hands of at least one or two self-professed insurrectionists who feel that having no more than an opinion will pave their way to eternal freedom.

And you know what they say about opinions and arseholes: everybody's got one. Maybe that's why the masses have taken to getting out there and shaking things up a little...

Picture sourced from here.