Louis C.K. and the bawdy mystic. Mark Morford
What’s that you say? British sex god/ubercomic Russell Brand’s wickedly insightful takedown of corporate, pseudo-glamorous celebrity culture in last week’s Guardian wasn’t enough to make you cheer the fact that sly intelligence in popular culture isn’t yet dead? No problem.
Behold, here comes Louis C.K., this generation’s bawdy philosopher/guru masquerading as curmudgeon jackass comic, throwing his particular brand of often brilliant, deadpan observational wisdom all over the digital zeitgeist, explaining on Conan O’Brien’s show, firstly, why he won’t let his two young daughters have smart phones. Did you see?
But wait, before you look, that’s not really the best part. Because C.K. then goes a great existential leap further and explicates why the damnable digital demons spell the end of humanity and the human soul, simultaneously, simply by their potent ability to help us avoid deep, honest personal moments. It’s really quite fantastic. Watch the whole bit on YouTube, or read the transcript at Gawker. Like too few things on the Internet, it’s entirely worth your six minutes.
Maybe you remember a few years back when C.K. also just happened to explode into viral fame on Conan’s show, with his fantastic “everything’s amazing and no one’s happy” bit? This is the next level. This is C.K. maturing from befuddled observer of everyday absurdity, into a cheerfully indelicate Cassandra, the go-to font of dumbfounded, forehead-slapping insights into the awfulbeautiful chaos that is the human condition.
The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/09/24/louis-ck-and-the-bawdy-mystic/
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