Ahhhhhh ..... let me behold the beauty of chaos!
Chaos, positive chaos that is, is a most beautiful and, I believe, utterly essential thing! As any good Discordian can tell you, when one views life as a serious, orderly matter, (as the followers of Greyface do) one develops an oversimplified, binary view of the world and the events that occur therein as either orderly or disorderly, with order being preferred to disorder at all costs. It is, however, a system that does not differentiate between constructive and destructive order. The alternative is to view things as either constructive or destructive. In this system, construction is preferred to destruction. Selecting construction results in both constructive order and constructive disorder.
I have, for some time now, had this Grand Dream to organize and perpetrate a large scale Discordian action centered in the principle of constructive disorder.
Okay, so here's my idea...
You know how they always have Bibles in the nightstands of every hotel, motel, inn, or whatever your preferred means of non-residential lodging may be, right there next to the bed? What I would like to do is coordinate the replacing of these Bibles with The Guide (that’s the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for those of you who may not be familiar with the book – and, if that’s the case, it’s okay, just make an effort and go out and read it soon).
While the Grand Dream is for this action to take place on a national, or better yet, global level, this could alternatively be done on a smaller scale as well. The switching of the books would have to happen at the same time everywhere in order for the message to be delivered as intended and for the beautiful and positive chaos desired to be produced by the action.
Now, I know that this would take a lot of orchestration, but if the guys in Fight Club can do what they did, why can’t we? Can you just imagine the moment when someone looking in that drawer, expecting to find a Bible, or even just looking for a local phone book, and they find The Guide inside instead?
And then, what do they see as they open it out of curiosity? One simple message ... DON’T PANIC :-)
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