# flock david lynch a definitive statement > flockin' morons everywhere > ~ dead dave the first time i viewed lynch's cinematic output i genuinely liked every single one - even the one with the rabbits do we need david lynch yeah sure would the world be (/somehow) worse off without ir professionally obtuse fnart almost definitely do most of ir flicks and show at least display good cinematography and bizarre flare er yeah and yet this lighthearted-not-really definitive 'flock david lynch' statement exists for those who need it a small chance to counter all obsessive pseudo-critical laughably ott fawning obsequious lynchian-apologist bs **+** "consider david lynch peak artistic whiteness; lynch is overrated precisely for the same reason whiteness overrates itself; even the gods of popcult tv shows quietly despise the very charity shop shelving units ir entire boxed sets of dusty time faded vhs tapes slump upon **+** lynch as another ultimate rorschach test for easily-pleased schmucks: the discrepancy gap between what dave's glacial films offer (often not a great deal) and what stans falsely interpret and attribute as being there - an apparently endless cornucopia of 'deep meaning'(tm) - often feels so vast one could casually yeet dave's entire art-blob into the chasm and they'd dive in after it screaming all the way with dim joy and overly-serious interpretive appreciation; the phrase one is after to describe this bizarre lynchian apophenic pareidolia is 'symbolism? symbollocks more like' **+** for some people if they ever hear the innately uncritical culture phrase 'david lynch' once more they swear they'll travel by crow to the next lynchcon dressed as 'bob' with a rusty chainsaw stolen from a local lumber mill somewhere in the pacific bs northwest - provide all those fawning stans dressed like other characters from the show exactly what the tv-movie world's been demanding all these desperate wasted years - a basic education in media literacy and a healthy critical appreciation for wider cinematic fare **+** other than agent cooper's amazing hair and the incredible sheryl lee 'twin peaks' staggers onto the screens of wholly inaccurate collective media memory a drunk student at a prestigious film making college arriving complete - like athena from the split forehead of zeus - with an entire set of stale conveniently self mythologizing cabbage fnarts about it's own alleged greatness and groundbreaking whatever **+** the more one reads dear dead dave's wiki entry the angrier one gets; stuff about ir being commonly referred to - citation needed punks - as a dark 'visionary genius' sounds so patently and easily provably wrong; the amount of darkly laughable eye rolling which immediately results can put one right in ocular surgery **+** the very term 'lynchian' often actually and merely means 'more deodorized pink male crap'; self appointed 'professionals' able to pick up on the smallest liminal metatextual symbolism in lynch's grand oeuvre - pfft more like oeuf **+** the key to correctly understanding and contextualizing dave seems self indulgence; historically it's been flans and academics doing all the heavy lifting in the 'pretentious film-school student who corners you at a lynchcon' depar(tm)ent and not necessarily lynch himself - but it's still that initial privilege which iks - which allows such artistes to simply throw anything at the media screen and watch it slide down in ir own goddamn sweet slow time (and too-often wholly without critical comment; hideous kojima much eh lynchy) **+** the whole problem with lynch appear not just lynch himself and 'ir'(tm) holy art but how the entire drab 'lynchian' culture industry grown up around ir - which continually sucks all the cinematic air out of potentially wider and far more interesting conversations; nobody else who needs it gets any views because artists of whiteness unceasingly masturbating ir 'art dahlink' in public horde all the cinematic eyeballs **+** while it's clearly understood that lynch is a true apex predator of pos(tm)odern movie literature 'texts' - at least to those who actually read good books - it's the inherently problematic and contestable (synthetic) nature of the lynchian text-space which results in critical analysis being the bane of smug pretentious artsy-fartsy lynch stans (one doesn't have to 'overly analyze' lynch because ir genius is self-apparent; yet such a statement itself is a form of ideological analysis) **+** a phrase meant to be a critique of dave - 'being weird for the sake of being weird' - doesn't really cut it as what's far more truly weird isn't dave's work which is often exactly the kind of dull pseudo-weirdness someone's conservative dad living without friction in the straight world would consider - heavy handed and skull-smackingly obvious - but this whole (entirely empty) cinematic neurospectacle around a dead (missing) lynchian center one would write far more here but 'tired apathy' is only ever the outcome of thinking of such stale pale artists who appear to have long believed ir own press releases without necessary cultural feedback - eg "enough already" - who it seems never had any close friends on-set to gently take them aside and quietly whisper "dave this stuff you're doing is just.. severely naff" **+** notice how gordan cole's annoying deafness oh-so ironically reflects lynch's systematic failure to listen to good common sense from other artists - about storytelling character development consistency and plot arcs **+** naturally-unnaturally stans will reply (as they always predictably do) with "but that's the point"; bttp is the standard go-to for people who treat the text as subtext and have undergone permanent irony-gland removal surgery **+** mentally healthy viewers far wider and more healthy organic cinematic output should do well to remember to occasionally repost the following phase on social: "david lynch is still dead"; whenever the lynchian(tm) is involved its better to err on the side of caution and state "nah - i mean it's ok but too often just a load of old nonsensical time wasting toss; this shit's for the birds" ![[david-lynch-is-still-dead.png |600]]] fallopium films: david lynch is overrated (youtube):  // republic of bob