/eris/ - Discordianism

Like, the Noam Chomsky brand tankie "anarchists"?  I sure hope that we aren't like them.

>>4322
>tankie "anarchists"
That word means less and less each day.

There have been a few /gov/ threads around the topic.

If you give any weight to the Principia Discordia, and you shouldn't, because it tells us so: I don't know about Malaclypse the Younger, but Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst was certainly involved in circles around forms of anarchism. Historians pretend Lord Omar themself published a newsletter called Zenarchy (it was really Ho Chi Zen).

The mere concept of Every Man a Pope has clear suggestions of anarchist horizontal structure. It would be absurd to claim that Discordianism isn't a product of anarchists tired of anarchism. And absurd is our thing.

>>4324
Once could claim the Discordian thesis is a constructive reversal of the destructive anarchism. Discordianism is chaotic hyperarchism. Instead of burning all the ladders, we've given everyone a ladder.
Eris is our goddess, not your ruler. And every known person is at the apex of Her followers - a pope of the entire religion.

Discordianism is basically US libertarianism applied to a realm where it actually works - fantasy.

Political anarchists by and large operate well within the bounds of political reality. A political anarchist might wish for society to be structured in a different way, and they might have some very noble goals, but they are still ultimately grayfaced because they believe something along the lines of "if only everyone would listen...!"

I would say Discordianism is religious anarchy, or perhaps as my venerable colleague Caesar October VIII calls it, hyperarchy. The Goddess reveals different things to us in order to confuse us and cause discord in our ranks, and this is precisely why we worship her. It would be difficult for a politics-brained person to appreciate these gifts.

>>4326
is discordianism a faux cult?

I would think discordianism transcends political thought altogether. We aren't crowning discordian monarchs, or engaging in holy wars, or trying convert our fellow humans, or making theocracies, for example; albeit our more successful temples often are disguised as, or otherwise congregated in, congresses, parliaments, courts, bars, burlesque houses, other churches, rundown buildings etc. Nor do I think we have roots of anarchists free from responsibility (even if our founders were hippies and beatnics), but rather our roots grow from the chaotic fires of liberty and personal growth. Better to be one out of the many, than just another in the multitude.
If we had one political 'position' surely it would be a long the lines of disobedience is man's original virtue. That the Faustian Individual is much greater than any static state, or ideology, or philosophic creed, or conditions, circumstances, or consequences. Being a change in the world rather than a hoping that the world might change on its own.
I think we are a religious rebellion of the living against the dead: their legacy, inaction, their laws, ignorance, and their lack of wisdom, lazy.

>>4329
The dead have done more than the living ever did.
I fucking hate anarchists. Give me a theocracy.

>>4323

You will not find ANY self-proclaimed "anarchists" who don't zealously support dictatorships and authoritarianism.