Cults

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by DAII

Admin is lost as long as Praxeas has control of that little red button that Obama has brainwashed him to ultimately push as part of his Vulcan cult training.

During the 20th-century's Cold War, the "Big Red Button" (sometimes just "The Button") referred to a device used to launch nuclear weapons. A person in charge may be referred to as "having his/her finger on The Button". The disastrous consequences of a full-out nuclear war made the Big Red Button a symbol of the annihilation of humanity.

Because of this potential doomsday use, Cold-War-era fiction often featured a BRB as the final trigger for a self-destruct process. It could also represent a "nuclear" or radical solution to a problem, much like "cutting the Gordian knot", and likely lead to the BRB's use as a reset button.

Once contemporary definitions of the BRB gained popularity as a plot device in Looney Tunes, the button became a running gag. A character would at some point be warned, "Whatever you do, do not press the red button." By the end of the cartoon someone would invariably press it, usually resulting in a large explosion. This attached a level of temptation to the button itself, and is often used in religious or philosophical allegory, a parallel to Adam and Eve's consumption of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.

Praxeas gets to practice with the little red button until he graduates from SEU.

Are you sure it's red? How can you be sure? Is this something like the Staples Easy Button?