I'll give you the International Relations style answer to this question.
Discordianism is important because the underlying power structure of the last 200 years is crumbling before our eyes. States, in particular liberal-democratic states, were once considered the pinnacle of political evolution. However, it is looking increasingly like the status quo of the past 200 years was a fluke, instead of a steady progression to a better political norm.
And that has had several important impacts. The creation of a global economy has rendered the role of most states as obsolete. Defence of the sovereign nation is increasingly immaterial - what counts now is the defence of the economic suprastructure, hardening vulnerable point in the international trade network and promoting further integration - by gold or guns. The role of the state, if anything, is to maximise economic opportunity.
But not everyone in this world is a cosmopolitan, a homo economicus, interested in expanding the bottom line and getting that new vanity "must-have" item. People are losing nationalism, but in return they get religion, or tribalism. Moreover, the trend has become towards individualism. The state has cast us out, therefore we no longer feel the loyalty we once had. On paper, they are still as strong as ever, but state forces are increasingly seen as paper tigers. More order, more discipline, more policing is the order of the day, but that just underlies the original problem - these methods are not working, the political order is no longer wed to ideology, there is no policeman in the head of every citizen.
Disorder is on the rise. Traditional authority has been junked. De facto, we are moving towards a world comprised of billions of states - that of the sovereign individual. Technology is out of control, in both directions. A capable individual has the power to bring a state to its knees (if not right now, then within a few years), yet centralized authorities are increasingly reliant on overlapping networks of technology that they cannot protect, let alone control. In short, you can only rely on yourself, technology only works when it augments your native abilities, because there are enough maniacs in the world prepared to bring everything down with them, even if they benefit from it.
The feedback loops are increasing. The extension of "punditry" to the white collar workers has meant that information is less "pure" than ever, passing through more and more distorting filters. Perception will trump objectivism, the use of grand narratives to manufacture consent will likely result in ideological conflict - and political communities which exist in totally seperate perceptive realities from each other.
Things fall apart. The technological and social future meet the political past. Post-modern feudalism. The state smashed upon the shores of history, with all the chances for change and conflict and difference that this allows.
