Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 123
SIXTH CHORUS
Marat
forget the rest
there's nothing else
beyond the body
—Marat/Sade
So: after 150 years, we are ready to look de Sade in the face, eyeball to
eyeball. He comes on, always, like a Zen Master, shouting right into our
ears: "Tyranny or Anarchy—you must choose. Answer now!"
He was the first one mad enough and sane enough to accept the given, the
immutible, to start from man-in-history rather than from man-in-theory.
Well, he says, I don't believe in the "noble savage," I even doubt that he is
"inherently good," but taking him as he is 1 still say: Freedom. He deserves
liberty because nobody else is good enough to take it away from him.
He looked into anarchy, he looked past the voluntarily organized anarchy
of Proudhon and Tolstoy, he looked into chaos itself, and he said, yes, even
that, I will accept even that, before I will bend the knee to any Authority that
claims to own me.
I dreamed I called LBJ on the phone and I said, look, man, you're not taking
my son for one of your damnfool wars.
"You are mistaken," he said smoothly. "That boy is not your son. He
belongs to society and the State, and I am society and the State. I will take
him anywhere I want, 1 will order him to do anything I care to have done,
and I will shoot him if he disobeys."
But, but, man—I said—like, wow, man—do you think you own us?
"Read your law books, son," he chuckled. "Ownership is the right 'to use
or abuse.'"
And the line went dead with a cold little click like an IBM machine
punching a hole in a card somewhere in the vast and infinite halls of
bureaucracy.
SEVENTH CHORUS
"Although the prodigious spectacle of folly we
are facing here may be horrible, it is always
interesting."
— Sade
I called the world up on the telephone and I implored them:
How much of you belongs to the Combine? If they can take your money
in taxes and your sons in wars, how do you differ from the cow who is
milked or the pig who is eaten? Do you breed for them like a stallion in a