Steven Zuber

Yeah.

And I'm not like a professional scholar of ancient history, historical literature, but I'm pretty sure that Jesus was not the first person to do the Jesus thing.

Just the most popular one.

Right.

And so he's the one that went viral.

Right.

Which, you know, just some luck of the memes there.

Yeah, I would get too derailed if I were to give my fuller answer to that.

Well, the one sentence version is that part of the skill issue of making it go viral is going completely against the teachings of what it is that you're trying to teach.

You kill dissenters rather than peacefully love them as you're supposed to.

That's how you win a mimetic contest is by killing people who don't agree with you.

You get people to accept Jesus by doing the things that Jesus would never ever condone doing, namely by killing people who are dissenting or shitting on your faith or whatever.

Yeah.

So Christianity won the mimetic contest by failing to be good Christians.

And if you're looking at the story expecting a more traditional format, then it's not wrong to assume that the climax was the final battle in the graveyard.

And then when it is, it's like, well, that sure ended quickly and Harry pulled the solution out of his ass.

Well, not exactly, but he didn't... What am I trying to say?

It was a kind of unsatisfying victory

And in the storytelling narrative sense, it was fun watching him, you know, win because he had secret knowledge of physics.

But like, yeah, what I'm trying to say is like the real victory was Hermione over Quirrell.