The Complicated Futility of Ignorance is the third and final studio album by English rock band Fudge Tunnel, released in September 1994 by Earache Records.

[2] The Complicated Futility of Ignorance is noted for being the heaviest and most extreme album of the band.

[2] AllMusic's Vincent Jeffries gave the album four stars out of five, and noted the release as being "the best of this group's many fine offerings".

[2] Trouser Press wrote that "as a refined dose of pure musical aggression that grabs, holds and savages ... it’s the band’s most effective".

[9] The album won a 1995 NAIRD Indie Award, in the Hard Music category.