Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 127
Sadeanists, accept the situation at once—without complaining about its
"immortality" or "injustice"—and set out systematically and cold-bloodedly
to turn the tables.
This is the doctrine of the bandits in Justine—"Nature has caused us to be
equals born, Therese; if fate is pleased to upset the primary scheme of
things, it is for us to con tct its caprices" (Sade, p. 481}—and the doctrine of
Stirnerite anarchism. DeSade's proletarian heroes, like the glorious anarchist
bandit, Ravechel, believe instinctively that "crime alone opens to us the door
to life" (Sade, p. 482).
To anyone who doesn't like this doctrine, Sade's answer is blunt: "The
callousness of the Rich legitimates the bad conduct of the Poor; let them
open their purses to our needs.... We will be fools indeed to abstain from
[crimes] when they can lessen the yoke wherewith their cruelty bears us
down" (Sade, p. 481). This sounds horrible, it seems, only to those whose
conscious or unconscious wish is to be oppressors. Sadean man merely
refuses to be oppressed; he can only be killed, but never subjugated.
I dreamed I called Adolf Hitler on the phone and asked him, What was
your gimmick?
"They believed it was wiser to obey anyone, even me, than to risk
anarchy," he said with a ghoulish laugh.
And the line went dead with a sharp click like boot-heels snapped together.
TWELFTH CHORUS
I'm a mad animal
Prisons don't help
Chains don't help
I escape
through all the walls
— Marat/Sade
B.F. Skinner envisions a world without punishment. Nobody is interested.
Guns are now available—they are used in Africa by game wardens—that
will stun without killing. Armed with these, an army could capture a town
without shedding one drop of blood. Have you heard of any government
plotting to wage its future wars with these guns?
Punishment, discipline, obedience—these are the keys to such mysteries,
and to the mystery of war itself, and to all oddities of behavior in Man and
the other domestic animals. Sade saw it, and was banned for 150 years. He
saw the genital fever, the need for embrace, dammed up at the center of
man. Another reason he was banned.
The actors are going nuts playing in Marat/Sade. "There is not a single
member of the cast who does not hate with a deep loathing every single