Well now, Mr. Bunny, I'm not sure, but I think you were a member of our old home when the term "primitive" evolved.
Of course, everyone has called them "DUmmies" ever since Skins landed on his island and claimed it for the malcontents, the misfits, the deviants, the whackos, the parasites, of the Democrat party.
Remember, Skins's island was established by the regular Democrats after the elections of 2000, when the regular Democrats determined that the fringe elements of their party turned off decent and civilized people, costing them votes in elections.
And hence Skin's island--so as to identify, attract, and isolate the weird ones from the regular ones, keeping them out of public view.
Unfortunately, someone forgot the internet's wide open for all to see.
And so Skins's island couldn't remain undiscovered.
Sometime while at our old home, it struck me that the DUmmies were caveman-like in their boorish uncouth manners, after which I began calling them "Neanderthalics."
I believe it was Pedro Picasso, the "Atman" primitive, who inspired that idea.
It was subsequently pointed out that Neanderthal Man was more advanced than his stereotype implies--and much more cerebrally advanced than the DUmmies--but having invented the name, I continued using it for a while, because I couldn't think of a better one.
That is, until one day on Skins's island, I came across a campfire (this was in 2005) where the DUmmies were discussing the possible impeachment of Richard Cheney. I don't recall the specific thread, other than that the maternal ancestress of the Bostonian Drunkard was there, but anyway.....
For me, words are pictures, and that particular thread looked very much like a bunch of filed-toothed loin-clothed savages sitting around a campfire deep in the jungle, passing back-and-forth among themselves their voodoo dolls of Richard Cheney, commenting upon the handiwork and craftsmanship of each doll, grunting and wiggle-waggling their armpits at each other in approval or disapproval.
Aha.
I had always been "into" anthropology, and Margaret Mead came instantly to mind.
It then occurred to me to start looking at the DUmmies the same way Margaret Mead observed the ancient peoples of the isolated South Seas. A most happy occurrence, because if one really studies them, the DUmmies do betray their taboos, their fetishes, their totems, their superstitions, their rituals, their castes, their gods, their fear and loathing of the larger world outside of their own.
The problem with this was that the "primitives" of the South Seas were mostly very-dark-skinned, while the DUmmies in DUmmieland are, as we all know, something like 98.7% lily-white. And also, the "primitives" of the South Seas were actually engaged in a life-and-death struggle for survival in a very hostile environment, while the DUmmies exist in a world that actually lets them flourish and prosper.
About the only superficial similarity between the two is that both practice substantial body decoration and mutilation.
And so my choice of the word denigrates the "primitives" and flatters the DUmmies.
But damn, I can't think of any better term, anthropological-wise, to describe the inhabitants of la-la-land.
"DUmors" has been suggested, but that's more akin to looking at the primitives as a cancer upon the body human and social, and "DUmors" is okay if one wishes to examine the primitives in the medical sense. But I'm not looking at the primitives in the medical sense, but instead in the cultural and anthropological senses.
I think all terms used by decent and civilized people to describe the primitives on Skins's island are utterly appropriate; "DUmmies" when one thinks of them as being stupid and silly and ridiculous, "primitives" when one thinks of them in the anthropological sense, and "DUmors" when one thinks of them in the medical sense.
