alt text: caption reads: “politicians: if you don’t like it, why don’t u protest peacefully?” above larger text, “protesting peacefully:” in the below picture, a wojack protester, red in frustration pulls his eyes exaggeratedly down his face as he stands in a square in the streeet labelled “DESIGNATED FREE SPEECH”. a ‘fnord’ with a clown pepe at the wheel honks at him. off to the side a sniper trains their sight on the protester.
Fnord" (/fnɔːrd/) is a word coined in 1965 by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia. It entered into popular culture after appearing in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) of novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Here, the interjection “fnord” is given hypnotic power over the unenlightened, and children in grade school are taught to be unable to see the word consciously. For the rest of their lives, every appearance of the word subconsciously generates a feeling of unease and confusion which prevents rational consideration of the text in which it appears.