So, I just had this idea, I'm going to occasionally talk about books I've previously read. I'm starting off with The Illuminatus! Trilogy. It is the most brilliant example of carefully manufactured confusion I've ever seen or heard. After the first page, you are never more then say... 90% sure what's going on at a given moment? Usually you're as low as 30%. For instance, it claims that there were no less then 5 people trying to kill kenedy when he got assassinated. He was not in fact killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, now was he killed by the professional hitman that hasn't ever killed anyone but his target always dies for unrelated reasons, NOR was he killed by John Dillanger, who was there to assassinate the would-be assassins but realized there were too many of them and he should just kill kenedy himself to confuse them (he was the one on the grassy knoll) but he was in fact killed by a man who had invested heavily in the space program before it was canceled the first time and was angry at Kenedy for reinstating it.
The ENTIRE BOOK is like that.
It would probably be a good idea to read the Principia Discordia online beforehand, it'll make more sense.
And now, a quote:
The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned to it. The theologians call it a sinner and tries to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychotherapist calls it neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.
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Holy crap, Half of my post was a single run on sentence...
That is just beautiful!
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