Isn’t it all just a wind up?

Excellent summary.

It would not surprise me to discover that he was a bit of a misanthrope.

God how cold. But sweet of you to check in about the diver.

I feel that some of that humour was really about mocking people with human sensitivity. It had the callous air of cocaine about it.

I didn't much care for Brass Eye, though I also didn't watch much of it. You've reminded me the little bit of one of his shows that I saw shocked me so much I actually contacted BBC2(?) about it. I think it was Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge (or a similar character) commenting on a diver. The diver did a somersault and struck their head on the diving board then went limp and just sank. I remember the same or a similar incident, the diver sinking with blood streaming from his head. I believe he died. I was horrified, we were meant to laugh!? Anyway, I wrote because I wanted to know he was okay. They did get back to me, but said they couldn't comment.

Tldr, not a fan.

Cake I was thinking about Chris Morris recently and Brasseye recently. I reckon he was dodgy, because the whole series was set up at first to make you incredulous about the news and about ‘concerned’ celebrities. It was setting up the idea of a fabricated ‘moral panic’ and how we should not allow ourselves to be duped into going along with them.

The final episode was on paedophiles, I now believe deliberately, to suggest that all the child protection concerns which had been addressed in the recent times were an over-reaction, just moral panic, of gullible idiots. He even tried to introduce he idea of the ‘NOMAP’, by saying that the paedophile “didn’t fancy” that particular boy. It really stood out as ‘not like the other episodes’ and as though they had been building up to it. I feel creeped out when I think about Brasseye and Chris Morris now. WTF was he up to and why?

You're talking Nonce Sense!

Basically, it's exactly that way, but if everyone took it deathly seriously.

'Would it were so' = if only that were the case

How do you account, for example, for all the heart-warming stories published everywhere from women's magazines to the BBC about how wonderful it is for children to have parents who agree to "change their sex"?

I believe that the pharmaceutical industry is at the core of all this, while lots of other groups and types of people have found that it also suits their interests.

I think I posted...ooh ages ago, how this was like a Brass Eye sketch that's got out of hand. Because it is insane. But Dylan has met the President. Men are being applauded for winning in women's sports. Rapists are being jailed with vulnerable women. Health care professionals are afraid to say there are only two sexes. The leader of the Labour Party thinks men can be women. Children are being....well bad things are happening to them. And women who say anything are being hounded, in the street, from their jobs and by the Police.

I wish Chris Morris would 'fess up because it's really gone too far.

I'd agree but Tumblr speak is now in government training, in the NHS, in schools and is frankly terrifying

Mezmer for many years, what we’ve been exposed to had been curated. So if someone said “I saw a tortoise help a struggling bird”, an expert in tortoises would be brought out to say “that person is a fantasist and a liar”. Nowadays, anything can be captured and nothing is curated, so you see the shaky phone-camera with your own eyes and see the the tortoise helping the bird.

I think this is what we are seeing now regarding human behaviour and human nature. No experts to tell us ‘that can never happen’ or filter what we ‘need to know’, so we are finding out just how crazy, gullible, twisted, sinister and perverse people can be.

In the old days, Jefferey would have worked somewhere like snappy snaps, and aside from making customers feel uneasy, very few people would know about him.

Would it were so.