Coincidance - Principia Discordia

118 COINCIDANCE
But, but, but—I screamed—all those people—550,000 of them, according
to one estimate I read—blown apart by a picture of you—
"Look, Clyde," she said firmly "My analyst told me it don't do no good to
brood over such things."
And the line went dead with a hollow click, like a coffin closing snugly on
Dracula as the morning sun throws its white and ghastly nuclear radiations
into the cool darkness of dream.
SECOND CHORUS
Why do the children scream
What are the heaps they fight over
those heaps with eyes and mouths
— Marat/Sade
And we, we Hiroshima-makers, are now finally, more than 150 years
after his death, tentatively beginning to look at the unexpurgated de Sade.
I dreamed I called Dwight Eisenhower on the phone and asked him if de
Sade should be banned.
"I don't know," he said. "I'll have to ask Postmaster General Summerfield.
If he says it's a filthy book, then of course it should be banned. America must
maintain its purity and its God-given heritage."
And I dreamed I called him back two nights later and he had consulted
with Summerfield and the verdict was n.g. "Summerfield says dee Sayd was
a pinko pervert."
And the phone went dead with a sudden dull click like the last sound
Hemmingway heard when he put the gun to his head and said, ah, shit,
now, not any other minute but this minute, right now.
THIRD CHORUS
... and as if I were naughty little boy, the idea
is to spank me into good behavior?
— Sade
Prof. B.F. Skinner of Harvard, ripe with years and wisdom, rich with
degrees and honors, says that a world without punishment is operationally
conceivable. That is, speaking as a scientific psychologist, Skinner does not
know of any behavior that can't be increased or decreased without the use
of punishment.
Desirable behavior (from your point of view, whatever your point of
view is)?—reinforce it through a system of rewards. It will increase.
Undesirable behavior (again, from whatever your point of view is}?-—no
need to punish it; just reinforce incompatible behavior, again through a system