@monkeyninja Remember "weird" & how hard it hit? Ridicule is one of the most powerful weapons against the self-righteous. They️ need an image of themselves as arbiters of normalcy & seriousness - they're basically Jorge from Eco's "Name of the Rose", telling people to stop laughing because the truth tastes of death. To which William of Baskerville responds that he should be tarred & feathered & paraded as a bufoon so people could laugh at his small-minded selfrighteousness.