Chaos Marxism Primer - Principia Discordia

Chaos Marxism Primer
Dolores LaPicho
86. Invoke often.
HACK YOUR OWN PERSONALITY
87. The rationality you were taught to survive in this world is often
diametrically opposed to the rationality you will need to change it. Drugs
or religion may create the “altered state” necessary to build an alternative
rationality. Or they may screw you up.
88. Engaging in hostile banter is not politics or magick. It’s a kind of
sado-masochism.
89. Keep your recreational activities separate from your work, or one
will begin to substitute for the other and both will suffer.
90. If you're not hated by a large group of people when you die, you
didn't do it right.
91. Seek out mystical enlightenment, then subject it to the most
merciless skeptical examination.
92. Arguments over what is ‘good’ rest on arguments about reality,
even if they seem not too. ‘Ought’ does rely on arguments about what ‘is’.
THE WORLD AS IS
93. The Devil (however defined) owns this world. It's his. You can either sell
your soul, fight the power, or be irrelevant.
94. Propaganda and consumer culture fills the gap left by the decline of
traditional forms of religion in modern society.
95. Capitalism destroyed all the old myths, but then had to create new
myths to continually expand consumption and win our consent to the
system.
96. An egregore is a magickal term for an ideological construct with a will of
its own. We can see corporate capitalism in these terms.
97. It's no accident that psychology was born at the same time as mass
consumer society and universal suffrage.
98. Corporate Psychology wants to make us functional, not to make us well.
99. The corporate egregore creates the needs it survives by supplying –
including the need for meaning.
100. Our culture promotes isolation, alienation and paranoia as not
only an ideal, but the highest ideal.
101. The “Green Zone” in Baghdad is the most effective microcosm of
the World-As-Is.
102. Less bread means more circuses – the less food and shiny
consumer items there are to hand out, the more lies and spectacles
must be provided.
103. Corporate politics and management are memetics combined with
brute force. Memetics are generally cheaper and have less unpleasant
side effects than brute force, but need to be continually updated to
remain effective.
104. Corporate (or Black, or brute-force) Memetics works through a
barrage of constant mutually reinforcing impressions.
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