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You can think of this thread as a child of Payne's opensource OMF discussion, or of Cram's thread about Discordia's relevance today. Or you can think of it as its own thread. It is a thread, that's for sure.

We are in a unique position in history, my friends.
We have something resembling a message, or at least an assortment of messages, and we are standing before what will certainly be a troubled time, and may well prove an era of rapid, violent change. If the world economy goes entirely pear-shaped, disillusionment and doubt will be widespread. It will be, to put it shortly, the kind of time when things change. It will in no certain terms be the Season of Aftermath.

The Great Depression gave birth to Fascism and Communism.
If we fuck this Meltdown hard enough, what crazy mutant child can it bring forth?

Interesting topic indeed! I agree that things are changing and that we might have a change to affect the course if we could just come up with something really clever.

The way I see it is that capitalism is coming to its end, because economy can not continue growing from here to eternity. Those who are interested in the theory can check up Immanuel Wallersteins writings. I believe he makes sense. This consumerist way of life can simply not continue to exist very long and it is highly interesting to speculate on what will happen after that. However, I doubt the new order of things will be any good for people. I am afraid that we are slowly slipping into this orwellian nightmare, you know, the scenario Cain already covered in his post. But the important question is what we live for? We should not have to exist FOR corporations or governments, they should exist only for us.

It is often said (at least in leftist propaganda) that changes arise from the masses and that we really could make a difference if we were united. That mass power is the only way. But how to build a strong resistance that could really affect the world in this situation where people are kept happy with reality tv, antidepressants and low-cost junk food? Would this kind of mass awareness be even desirable in your opinion? How do you, in fact, see discordianisms role in this process?

*By the Lulz and for the Lulz!*

Hey there, yes we actually had a misinformation campaign going, search the forum for "Adam Weishaupt Society" or AWS. Quite successful, but as I recall, a lot of hard work.

I don't know exactly what you mean by the prison and the prison guards. If you're talking about the BIP, then the prison and the guards are both YOU. If you are talking about the Con instead, well any kind of unexpected behaviour can confuse them. Unity where there should be factions and splinter groups, or vice versa. Things along those lines.

Also, welcome to the boards!

Oh wow. AWS seems like something I would really have liked to be a part of. And also a kind of thing I had in mind: secret societies and stuff. I should perhaps lurk here awhile so I wouldn't post ideas that have been posted hundreds times before..  I have to be more cunning next time.

I'd love to see a bigger plan in work, but then again, those are not so easy to come up with.

I am new here but this thread really got me thinking.

I have to admit I've been reading too much conspiracy-stuff, and my head feels like it's exploding. Messing with the media sounds like a good idea especially since it seems that media is heavily biased and serves corporate interests.

I was thinking that one way to do the MindFuck would be to plot some kind of an misinformation campaign. We would basically need one really good story and ridiculous amount of weird rumors about it. I have not quite figured out if this would work or not, but throwing in some ideas might be good anyhow.

The way I see it is that the worst that could happen to the prison guards (and to the prison itself), would be to realize that people know what they are doing and disagree with them. In other words some kind of display of global resistance, or unity would possibly be unnerving.