1 | * AdaptationDisplacement: More people know of UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} through ''Illuminatus!'' than through ''Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia''. |
2 | * {{Anvilicious}}: Multiple examples: |
3 | ** “Authoritarianism is bad.” |
4 | ** “Classifying people into arbitrary categories of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ only leads to BlackAndWhiteInsanity.” |
5 | ** “Unforgiveness is bad.” |
6 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Hagbard runs down a list of indications that society is becoming increasingly totalitarian: "No-knock searches, stop and frisk laws, universal surveillance, automatic fingerprinting of anyone arrested even before they are charged with a crime..." which sounds suspiciously like modern America. |
7 | * HarsherInHindsight: The Discordians blow up a hole through the Pentagon. |
8 | * HilariousInHindsight: |
9 | ** A chapter about a rock festival said to be bigger than Woodstock spends over a page listing off stereotypical names for fictional bands; one of the groups so named is Music/{{Nirvana}}. In fact, not all the band names are fictional; for example Creator/HPLovecraft were a real sixties garage rock group, and (the original) Nirvana were a sixties psych group. |
10 | ** One of the many characters bearing a PunnyName is detective Saul Goodman. Over three decades later, that name would be made famous by [[Series/BreakingBad someone on the other side of the law.]] |
11 | * MemeticMutation: [[spoiler:fnord]] |
12 | * SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism: Take a guess. |
13 | * ValuesResonance: Censorship, authoritarianism, and pigeonholing people into categories are still big issues in today's America. The book's messages, while not exactly subtle, are still as relevant as they were back in the [[TheSeventies the '70s]]. |
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