If We Were Drow

I watched a movie about 3 women getting back at their boss (who was sexist and unscrupulous), stealing their ideas and doing underhanded things to get ahead in the workplace.

The immediate reaction that lingered was irritation. I felt that the boss's actions were "wrong".

But today, I had an epiphany.

Why?

Principia says that a man is a man, no matter the size. As in, people do people like things- the things people will do. They lie, cheat, steal; things go corrupt. This is simply the way things work; let it, instead of enraging you, remind you that essentially everything is how it should be. That things are right in the world, because people are still people and order still breeds corruption and chaos.

Chaots say "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."


...Think about that.


If we were a drow mindset society (as presented in D&D), what exacty would be wrong with what he did? (excepting the favoring of males over females, of course) The answer is: nothing. Because in that society, everything is fair game as long as you can get away with it. Since he did it and got away with it, then it just proved he could do it- it was fair game.
And the thing is -the very important thing- is that No One Would Have Been Upset.

All simply because of a diffferent societal paradigm.
It draws similarities to Tao and Zen because in that society, there was No One to be wronged- no attachment to arbitray values to make anyone upset and angry. Completely legit stuff, nothing to see here.

Go back, now to "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
Think about it in those terms.

Why do we hold to ourselves that those things are wrong, then? It's simply ingrained in our society and morality because of how we were raised. As a chaot, at least, I feel my views should be more fluid than that. I use magic to influence events, for Eris' sake. That's hardly "fair" and "by the book."

Now cross reference that to the principles of Discordianisimology. We hold true that order is not at base more worthwhile, more inportant, more 'good' than chaos; we simply believe (misguidedly) that it is because of how we were taught- a grand deception vomited forth by the consensus of society.

But, yet, here we are holding to the values we were taught about what is 'decent' and 'fair' ... in a world where few people that succeed actually hold true to those values at all.

In fact, it's kind of like a big joke when you look at it that way; our society says one thing with one hand, while rewarding the opposite generously from the other.

This may not be news to some of you; to most of you.
But I learned something today.
And thus I rejoice.

"Nothing is true, everthing is permitted."
"Attachment breeds unhappines."

She who holds true to the preconceptions, suffers by them.