The Killer App
By Mitch Berg
I just thought of the app that’s going to make me a millionaire.
Remember the class web games “Hot Or Not” and “Kill, Bang or Marry?” Where you’d look at photos of people of your preferred gender and select “Hot” or “Not” or whatever?
My idea: publish writings, photomemes and tweets from notable “new* atheists. Like this bit, ostensibly from John Malkovich…
…who is a great actor but, clearly, not much for classical logic. (Is it an actual Malkovich quote? I don’t know, and for my purposes at the moment it doesn’t actually matter).
Then, we categorize them as one of the following:
- “Angry Lapsed Catholic with Mommy/Daddy Issues”
- “Gay person, angry about the book of Leviticus and/or “the church’s” not accepting same-sex marriage.”
- “Wannabe Empiricist with the gold-plated strawmen, metal-flake red herrings, and a very selective sense of science”
- “Giggly Cultural Vandal who can’t imagine anything bigger than them in the universe”.
- “Eurotrash – usually French – cultural imperialist”.
The hard part, after writing the code, will be coming up with snappier descriptions of the options.
July 23rd, 2015 at 12:38 pm
One type of “atheist” actually believes in God but hates Him.
July 23rd, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Why would you like or dislike someone because they were an atheist? Analysis and psychiatry (the wordy kind, anyhow) may not be mad, but they are not easily distinguished from madness. Freud thought that analysis could cure schizophrenia.
July 23rd, 2015 at 1:07 pm
Where would you put PZ Meyers?
July 23rd, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Welcome to the game.
Probably 3, although 5 would also work.
July 24th, 2015 at 9:17 am
A psychiatrist can analyze dysfunction in a brain, but can’t always diagnose dysfunction in himself.
July 24th, 2015 at 9:50 am
Not snappy descriptions, but label suggestion spitballs:
AngryExCatholicCrazy
FuriousFabulousLeviticusHater
EmpiricalStrawManRedHerringHunter
BigHeadLaughingVandal
ImperialEuroTrash
July 24th, 2015 at 10:45 am
I have yet to see an instance where someone who declares what people who they disagree with really believe or think isn’t setting up a straw man in order to make themselves appear clever.
July 24th, 2015 at 10:47 am
Not only did I know you were going to say that, Thorley, but I can tell everyone EXACTLY why…
🙂