I don't know how to break the truth to this (actually rather nice) guy lecturing me about how to deal with fringe believers.
He just tweeted at me "i started in the 90s with Discordianism and Disinfo." I don't think he really needs to know I started in 1988 with High Weirdness By Mail and Whole Earth's Fringes of Reason anthology. And was lurking on Andrew Bulhak's legendary psychoceramics mailing list. And was an Illuminati University insider at SJ Games by '92. XD
Jesus. It's weird to think of myself as someone who actually, like, knows things. I guess I make up for it by knowing it all in a totally disorganized, formless, usually inaccessible way. :p
Still. I should probably stop selling myself short with this false humility stuff. I've been dealing with esoteric philosophy and Internet Crazy for a real, real, REAL long time. And this is an undeniably useful body of lore right now, something I should not shrink from teaching you Young Persons.