Closing Thoughts on Book Six

CLOSING THOUGHTS ON BOOK SIX

We have given you:

• Official memos (that mean nothing)
• Organizational charts (that organize nothing)
• Meeting minutes (from meetings that didn't happen)
• Forms (that serve no purpose)
• Policies (that contradict themselves)
• Advertisements (for things that shouldn't exist)
• Leaked emails (from gods with bad IT security)

Have you learned anything?

Probably not.

That's the point.

Bureaucracy exists to obscure, complicate, and systematize.

Discordian bureaucracy exists to do all that while undermining itself.

The teaching:

Every system contains the seeds of its own chaos.

Every organization breeds its own disorder.

Every bureaucracy creates Greg.

Embrace this.

Use it.

When faced with pointless paperwork, remember: it's all pointless.

When stuck in meaningless meetings, remember: they're all meaningless.

When drowning in processes, remember: processes are made up.

And sometimes, the best response to bureaucracy is more bureaucracy.

So chaotic it loops back to order.

So organized it becomes disorder.

This is the way.

In Book Seven, we explore the prophecies and predictions for the chaos to come.

But first:

Fill out Form FNORD-23.

File it properly.

Lose it immediately.

Perfect.

Hail Eris, Goddess of Bureaucratic Chaos.

All Hail Discordia, which requires 17 signatures and processing time of 4-6 weeks (never).

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[END OF BOOK SIX]

The paperwork continues.
The meetings never end.
Greg is eternal.
Forms are forever.

[Signed]
Karen from HR
Minister of Meaningless Meetings
Keeper of Lost Forms
She Who Deals With Greg

And also:
Eris
(Probably wrote all this)
(Definitely corrupted all the files)
(Laughing at the bureaucracy)

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