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This particular book is a collaboration focused on Discordianism.More info: Discordianism is a religion centered on the idea that chaos is all that there is, and that disorder and order are both illusions that are imposed on chaos. These are referred to, respectively, as the Eristic and Aneristic illusions. It was founded circa 1958-1959 by Malaclypse the Younger with the publication of its principal text, the Principia Discordia.