@rechelon here's the links in case you deem either fit to add

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Principia_Discordia_%28HSCA_JFK_collection_version%29.pdf

https://ia803105.us.archive.org/27/items/principiadiscordia/principiadiscordia_text.pdf

@rechelon i promise this is not me taking the piss: most of the early Discordian works were zines, and I'd argue that our belief system has a place within anarchism (every discordian I've known irl was a self-described anarchist, but that's probably just sample bias)

Wikimedia has scans of the original "Principia Discordia" xeroxes (ugly, but readable), and archive.org has a higher quality PDF of the modern version (which has none of the history/organizational info of the "church")

@beka_valentine he was so prolific that I see him come up in critical theory, compsci, polisci.

My points are more that no man is an island, and it's bizarre to imagine he fabricated his theories entirely without outside input. I would hope the ideas could stand on their own, rather than hinge their success on being associated with his reputation. I would love to see the death of Great Man Theory, especially as it applies to academia.

But I think that's all just wishful thinking.

@beka_valentine ideally they teach it the way any other scientific theory should be taught: as an idea to be considered and tested but not accepted as dogma.

Ideally the students, being adults, understand that the names attached to ideas in any area of study are simply the people with the most sociopolitical sway at that place and time, and not heroes to be worshipped.

Ideally...