Rant 26: Chaosophistry?

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

RANT 26
Chaosophistry

?¨It is now ordering our acts more intimately than we are apt to suspect because the dictates of public opinion become so thoroughly assimilated that they seem to be original and individual to those who are guided by them.?Æ
--Sir Francis Galton (Inventor of ?´Normal??)  

?¨Culprits such as Nazism, Fascism, the American Genocide of Native Nations, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Chinese Genocide of Tibet, have all been identified and dethroned. But no one has ever bothered to question the concept that spawned such movements: Normal.?Æ
-Tequilarius Malignatus (Inventor of Many Abnormalities)  

The stars are all against you. So why bother using astrology? The major religions are all slave-cults that were the engine behind tyrannical empires. So why bother worshipping the slave-gods? The ideologies are all symptoms of massive delusion. So why follow their tunnel vision realities? Everything you know is a lie. You have illusions that need to be abused. And Discordianism is here to do something about that.

You may hold out hope that the blind goddess Chaos will arise and free you from the world??s situation. And you are wrong. Chaos will not free you from itself. And you are Chaos. You are not Chaos like Eris is Chaos simply because She has had more experience at the game than you. But that??s okay. You are surely Chaos as much as we all are. Abandon anti-Chaos and learn something about the world for once. Discordianism may help you do that.

What? Anti-Chaos? You may think anti-Chaos is a strange word to use for Order. And that may be because you have mental constipation??you hold onto shit too tightly. I say anti-Chaos just like I say anti-optimism. Pessimism? Just another word for crap. Some of us here today don??t have the luxury of indulging in the pessimistic, or rather anti-optimistic, outlook because we have to survive. The same goes for the outlook of Order. Order is just a trick of perception. It??s what our foggy minds try to impose over patterns and habits of Chaos. Discordianism may get you to see this.

Some of you may think you know what Discordianism is?ñand you are all absolutely right. Or wrong. Some of you will make absurd statements about worshipping Eris and than not being Pagan. Some of you will say it??s not about Eris at all. Some of you try to Zen it up. Or nihilize it down. Some of you will say it??s about illumination. Some of you will say it??s about disinformation. I could care less about what you think. I could care less what the non-Discordians think. I certainly think I know what Discordianism means to me. Yet, Eris could be playing a joke. I hope it??s funny, at least. I can accept all your statements as equally valid and therefore absurd because I may be learning to be chaosophisticated enough to do so. (Or maybe that should be ?´sophistichaoist???)

Normal is nothing more than anti-Chaos. Normality is nothing but the state of anti-Chaos??a stifling stagnation where anti-creativity is paraded about as exciting and new. Such states of ?´dis-chaos?? are disgusting in their constipated insistence on holding on to order and imposing it??s crap-stained precepts over everything. Yuck! Children of Eris, you are all crazy enough to be free. So become free! Flush the crap down the toilet or use it to fertilize your mindfucking gardens. Eris does hand you freedom on a silver platter. But what happens after that? There are no guarantees that things will be easier. You just might find yourself a little happier.

Or you might find yourself miserable. That will be most likely up to you. Your mind is yours, at least in principle, after all. Discordianism may or may not help you with that.

Getting free is not about getting high, after all. There are many ways of achieving happiness without getting one iota of freedom. That is the basic premise of consumer society and the reason why consumer society works. I think that there are more chances for happiness the more free I become. Being able to choose happiness in my nervous system (my ?´mind??) becomes more possible the more open my mind is, but that??s me. You may approach it differently.

At some point any thing, concept, or idea becomes absurd?ñeven freedom. And Chaos can open you up to realizing this. Your freedom is probably directly measured by your ability to say ?´no?? to things. Your slavery is in proportion to the things for which you cannot say ?´no?? to. Beyond that, it becomes speculation and even the terms ?´slavery?? and ?´freedom?? can start sounding absurd. (This can be seen in anarchist groups, where it becomes more important to have an identity as an ?´anarchist?? then actually doing anything to allow the space for anarchy to appear.)

Look to yourselves for the way out of whatever it is you feel you need to get out of. Discordianism may help you there. Who can say? Only you can.

(Chaos 8th, 3170)

[Trollax]

Word!

Hugh has found the Paradigmond in the rough!
Now dance biznatch!

[Doktor Howl]

Pity bump.

[Jasper]

I don't know what to say, Dok.  Just that it's probably more of a survival adaptation that you've learned to enjoy being beaten with hammers.

[Doktor Howl]

I don't know what to say, Dok.  Just that it's probably more of a survival adaptation that you've learned to enjoy being beaten with hammers.

Yes, well, I have a sickness about that, and I'm just trying to score my fix.

Dok,
Jonesin'