What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?