GOODNESS, Joe!
When flaming ignorance flares, it flares big on these threads!
The threat of the paradigm shift must be toooooo huge a looming freak-out to the emotional existential constructions on reality by the typical naysayer.
Some are sounding increasingly brittle . . . maybe even paranoid.
When you try to be too clever with words, your writing comes across as sounding artificial and forced. Just my opinion.