Things, ideas, movements and people are only as important as people make them to be.

If enough people believed that only wearing a sock over your genitals was acceptable ... people would only wear a sock over their genitals.

When you start looking at the world in this light and analyse what we decide on what is important and what is not ..... the world starts to look like a very weird place.

As George Carlin put it ....

"I have as much authority as the Pope ... I just don't have as many people who believe it"