Serious? No not entirely. But who could take the OP as being really serious? A fisrt world triviality if it were serious.

And I had deduced it was from Austin Powers, yes. I doubt Priory1 is really called Dr Evil!

And I would disagree this thread has been ridicule, but certainly people have raised their dislike of assumed self-importance, which rightly or wrongly, is what many extrapolated from the inference of the opening post.