The zutt cometh

It's always diverting to look in on Vox Popoli (sic) to see what crazed Christic nonsense will be uploaded onto us any given day. Today it's demon day. DOCTOR Heather Lynn - and don't ever forget a woman's PhD which she EARNED! - is just askin' questions. About demons.

It took very little time to dig up reviews of the book she's summarising. Here's one from Moreau Vazh, gaymer. Carl Feagan might have the best review; anyway the most-brutal, because he checks.

At least in the 2020 edition, Lynn's work was sloppy - laughably so, as she refers to a "Mount Zagrou". Zagros is, of course, a range of mountains; Zagrou is the (Greek) genitive. Feagan notes that Dr Lynn has taken this datum from a site posting essays by, we kid you not, high school teenagers. I adjudge Lynn to have disgraced her touted doctorate; I shan't use it further. What she gonna do.

Vazh, although lacking Feagan's investigative reportage, provides his readers with a different service: studying Lynn's rhetoric. He likens it to a space station orbiting a singularity, edging closer and closer to madness, and away from the sane universe. It relays plausible lore... at first. But then the zutt encroach into Lynn's circle and, if you are not careful - into yours. Remember that Lynn is cavalier with her research.

And then there's "Vox Day"... who has this day admitted to zutt in his own dreams:

not only were the dream-thoughts definitely not my own, but the characterizations of other people in the dream were intrinsically false and fundamentally different than what I absolutely know to be my true perspective on them. It was scripted to attempt to influence my thinking in a destructive direction, and the temptations offered were not of a sort that even appealed to me.

I, too, am permitted to Ask Questions. Perhaps the thoughts not "Vox Day's" own were, in fact, the thoughts of Theodore Beale. Something in his shell - something surviving in there - may be warning him not to trust the likes of Lynn. I leave for others to ponder what exactly is "Vox Day".