I should delight in people being fooled; in believing nonsense, in being confused. But I don't.
I think that's more of a SubGenius thing - they don't necessarily care if the pinks get screwed, it's amusing to them to see a fool and his money go their separate ways
In My Discordia, the cabbages and grayfaces and shitheads are the victims of bureaucracy--and if we've actually found a personal route to salvation, we owe it to our neighbors to speak up about it
I'm not into making coleslaw
I want everybody in my world to be in on the joke
The Holy Moment of Confusionto me, is like
You
thought you understood something
but now you recognize what a shithead you were
so you can see that 'understanding' is incomplete
Celebrate your OWN confusion, your OWN uncertainty.
It frees you from rigidity!~
It frees you from the psychological traps that surround Being Right
"Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is a shithead."
hearing this, the man was enlightened.It used to be different. It used to be that people were victims of government propaganda. Today, we're the victims of our own. Anyone with a cause can make up some bullshit infographic that deceptively appeals to the emotions of a whole swath of idiots and the fucking thing will spread like wildfire on every social media platform in existence.
this is the big Power question
in the old days, power was hierarchically distributed - some sovereign had it, and if there was no sovereign, there was no law
then the revolutions came - revolutions are great at decapitating power, when it's concentrated.
then the power reorganized itself to be immune to popular revolution -- we got things like juries and democratic representation. Everybody has access to the market. Later, everybody can talk on the internet. The power was distributed to you and me. Which makes it immune to decapitation - to move power somewhere else, you have to break a lot of things that are protected for good reasons.
The world is made of groups, so you can't do much on your own. The individual is just a drop of water in the ocean.
But you can become part of a larger group, a wave, and create the momentum
whatever that means
What place does a Discordian have in this Brave New World?
it's not my place to say what Discordians' place is. There are a lot of 'suggestions' in the lit. We have this great fictional backstory which positions us as revolutionaries and harbingers and dancers of the Strange Times. (But now - revolution probably isn't what we used to think it was.) Some of lot of our spiritual heritage is a western iteration of the rinzai-school. Grand and Glory Old Discordjia's like a gnostic calling - it's your experience, it's not for me to say you're right or wrong.
I think the place is
to think about your relationship to the Chaos,
what you want it to be,
where you want to be in it...
to recognize what's real but actually fake
to see what's fake that's actually real
to let the transformative alchemy of laughter work on us, through us,
and then offer it up as sacrament in communion
take, eat,
this is my cat's penis