I'm fairly in tune with my generation of fellow twenty-somethings. I know the difference between Beck and Montovani. You've managed to debunk Dungeons and Dragons for us. You'll see a black and white picture of a grinning, pipe smoking man, That's Bob. It's much more prevalent than you may think.
Slack is difficult to define.
The Church is full of doomsday prophecies, endless rants, and shameless appeals for your money. And it's all pretty much a joke. The Subgenius foundation was actually begun back in 1979 by a Dallas filmmaker named Douglas St. Clair Smith, who now goes under the name Ivan Stang. Although it's unclear as to whether this is what he had in mind at the time, eventually, the Church began to become a clearinghouse for a lot of these groups. Philosophically, the church owes it's origin to the Discordian movement of the late 60's and 70's.