anarqueso wrote: How about "some guy who crashes a workshop to tell a bunch of strangers about the connection between Jesus, Gandhi, my shirt, and the eschewing of animal flesh, unions, and the DMV?"
Oh shit, I forgot about the DMV!! *That's* what finally set off my Wingnut Bell. The fucking DMV! I mean, animal flesh blah blah, Gandhi, fire, blah blah, usurers, blah blah....DMV! Ding! ding! wingnut! (as opposed to Religio-spiritual Nut or Anti-Semitic Nut or Vegetarian Nut). I'm not sure why this did it, I mean we all hate the DMV. But you're suffering a serious misperception of scale, not to mention causality, when you're lumping the DMV in there.
And that, to me, is the hallmark of wingnuts. Not just the misplaced blame or inflamed passions, but the problem of scale. Conflation of the unearthly with the inconsequentially mundane, confusion of symptom with cause. Gandhi and the DMV. Hamburgers and usurers.
the DMV!!
Oh shit, I forgot about the DMV!! *That's* what finally set off my Wingnut Bell. The fucking DMV! I mean, animal flesh blah blah, Gandhi, fire, blah blah, usurers, blah blah....DMV! Ding! ding! wingnut! (as opposed to Religio-spiritual Nut or Anti-Semitic Nut or Vegetarian Nut). I'm not sure why this did it, I mean we all hate the DMV. But you're suffering a serious misperception of scale, not to mention causality, when you're lumping the DMV in there.
And that, to me, is the hallmark of wingnuts. Not just the misplaced blame or inflamed passions, but the problem of scale. Conflation of the unearthly with the inconsequentially mundane, confusion of symptom with cause. Gandhi and the DMV. Hamburgers and usurers.
- Melissa