Describing Discordianism

Many attempts have been made to describe Discordianism. Many attempts have failed. Discordianism is a philosophy. Some have described it as “like Taoism, but funnier.” Some people think that Discordians take serious things humorously. That is not quite true; rather, we take humorous things seriously.

Discordianism has a lot to do with Order and Disorder (which is what Chaos uses to manifest itself onto the material plane). The two are considered equals, more or less. Discordianism isn't about anarchy, the downfall of government, and breaking stuff, per se. It's about creativity, and that takes both Order and Disorder. To quote the Principia Discordia (the most wholely holy of texts; the Better Book), “To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also be willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.” One camp of Discordians believes there is enough order in the world as it is, and so dedicate themselves to being founts of chaos, thus evening up the overall balance. Another camp takes things more personally, and so looks to strike a balance between order and disorder within the individual.

They're both right.