# cunk's surface anti-intellectual awfulness as merely another form of aggressive unfunny 'just a joke'(tm) style anti-intellectual fascistic nihilism we should be careful what we laugh at like clapping seals barking for rotten comedy fish > those who believe absurdities can commit atrocities > attributed to voltaire if there were a first rule of psychoanalysis it might well be that there are no innocent pleasures and what he laugh 'freely and spontaneously' at often says far more about us than we'd care to admit whenever one hears philomena cunk speak one begins to feel angry - almost as if we the audience are the ones being laughed at in reality there's something perfectly sinister about charlie brooker's output; while he started out taking the straight left wing piss out of the anti-intellectual absurdity of mainstream culture now it appears he seems to be doing nothing but actively promoting death panic and fascistic nihilism nihilism is always fascistic because it unceasingly shouts it believes in nothing - "nuzzing lebowski!" - when in fact it always vehemently believes in at least one thing - whether that be nihilism itself or something else it doesn't even realize (which is the very definition of ideology) is the basic idea is that we watch cunk and laugh at her stupidity - is that the suspect 'innocent' deal we're being offered? a another distinct possibility exists - that viewers who like cunk's stupid massively self-circumscribed worldview are themselves the one's being laughed at by brooker and his cultural-elite ilk superficially we're all meant to know what precisely the object of cunk's satire is - self serious academics and ir 'funny ideas' right there however one's spidey sense should already be tingling; it all faintly stinks of a traditional right wing criticism of apparently 'left-wing experts' (when in fact as is usually the case is fashy bastards are merely complaining that these cultural conservatives simply aren't far right enough - as anything left of outright fascism is by-definition 'left') then we're supposed to laugh (automatically and unthinkingly) at philomena's absurdly disinterested take and attitude toward the world of ideas - allegedly knowing in the sense of a 'knowing wink' that philomena is the actual person worthy of our laughter precisely because it's her stupidity that's laughter-worthy yet it's all entirely arts-backwards; a far more critical (philosophical) reading of cunk is that her straight-faced idiocy is itself never anything more than always merely idiotic and entirely lacking in anything remotely worth paying attention to try and present such a take however to any of brooker's cult-like adoring flan base and they'll repeat ir one and only defensive mantra ad-nauseum: "well duh yeah that's precisely the point" if one has the means motive and opportunity to repeatedly pose ludicrous questions with conviction one must at some point ask who and what precisely is the object of all this heavy (so-called) 'satire' - if not actually the audience themselves people conveniently forget however that cunk is a bowdlerized version of the uk term 'cunt' - meaning an extremely unlikable obnoxious and unreasonably stupid person; an utterly antisocial selfish egotistical and cruel flockwit both 'philomena cunk' and her equally rusty spanner-brained male counterpart 'barry shitpeas' are both never anything more than a spanner-dumb pair of _utter cunts_ - but it's 'precisely the point'(tm) that one **_always_** do nothing but laugh at ir stupid and always apparently innocent antics and nonsense viewpoints thing is it's a pretty good wager to consider that most of the flans of cunk and brooker's other works - braying as they do like donkeys at all the apparent genius satire - are in fact perfectly on-board with the rampant fascistic anti-intellectualism on display; brooker's arguably nothing more than a conservative neoliberal wolf in guardian reading sheep's clothing the idea (ideology) of 'cunk' is that one feels perfectly smart for 'getting the joke' that cunk is an idiot - and the academics she interviews and makes uncomfortable are too self-serious not that academics aren't too-often stuck entirely up ir own arts - but then why should one be so quick to disbelieve them and ir knowledge yet instantly lap up cunk's celebration of stupidity? again: "but it isn't a celebration of stupidity you poor humorless leftwing idiot it's a _satire_" well if that's the case hey why not have a new show called "bob's house o' nuts - a satire that ridicules prestigious self-important mockumentaries by one-note hack writers and ir human intellectual vanity; through the persona of the show 'bob' employs deadpan absurdist humor to expose the gaps in the knowledge of utter cunks in the media and the absurdity of how we enjoy such awful tv shows" we're systematically instructed to take such unseriousness seriously when we in fact should not only _not_ laugh along with it but mock it outwardly; cunk's surface ignorance is a convenient suit of armor which actively prevents criticism; since she's already and 'obviously'(tm) thick as a flocking brick anyone who points out the awful moronic state of such a person is instantly labelled a humorless dolt who simply 'doesn't get the joke' and 'is just great at parties' /s - because it's _always_ all 'just a joke' right (and to see it any other way is blasphemy) thing is charlie brooker abhors and is terrified by what he considers 'the ignorant masses' - an entirely made up group which doesn't exist but which is forever being shat upon by rich uptight upper middling class wankers of whiteness like brooker - something to fear as they stare out from behind the net curtains of ir fancy multi million pound houses in gated suburbia there's absolutely nothing behind or beneath cunk's confidently stupid anti-intellectual persona; nothing remotely intellectual or appreciative of life art and beauty - and that flans of the show repeatedly and automatically assume there is and they they're oh-so clever for 'getting the yoke' is itself the only andor real joke going - here have another rotten pseudo-satirical fish you desperately uncritical and un-media savvy applauding seals consider cunk a sucking void of pseudo-deep bullshit thinly masquerading as.. pseudo-deep bullshit; _it is in fact precisely what it tells you it is_; it features nothing but it's paper thin surface and to think otherwise is it's very (surface) ideology that is (to quote groucho marx): 'he may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot but don't let that fool you. **_he really is an idiot._**' in the exact same way we're far too easily pleased by the apparently 'honest straightforward idiocy' of cunk. yet in fact there's nothing remotely honest straightforward or spontaneous once again pseudo-critics (flans) of the show will say 'that's precisely the point'. yet why then is her idiocy seen as honest and spontaneous and the intellectualism of the academics she grills with her utterly nonsensical bullshit seen as suspect; why interview them at all if you're merely a brick thick aggressively disinterested cunk with nothing to prove - if not in fact to smugly show off the real nature of show's (apparently) underlying oh-so-smartness to reiterate; one must remind oneself that this is not anti-intellectualism masquerading as anything else but itself - hiding in plain site. to refuse to engage with the ideas of charlie brooker is actual philosophy - not whatever braindead nihilistic doomer bullshit he's selling yo flock all them dumb cunks and ir bullshit system-friendly satire let's get some real progressive (collective) social progress happening // republic of bob