The Troll Diaries ----------------- 1. The Illuminist Army by Brother Abaris ----------------------------------------- “You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” – Morpheus, The Matrix What’s the point of this choice of pills? It’s about whether you want Truth or Lies. The remarkable thing is that although most people believe they would take the red pill, in fact most of them are addicted to the blue pill. They can’t do without it. They are Cyphers, not Neos. The Truth is not human. The Truth preceded humanity, and will survive humanity. It has nothing to do with humanity. The moment you try to find a Truth that’s appealing to humans, and, especially, to you personally, you have admitted that you want to shape the Truth in your image, and you don’t want the Truth as it is in itself, wholly independent of humans and their beliefs, opinions, tastes and feelings. The Truth doesn’t come to you. You have to go to it. And you have to go as the humblest of supplicants, and the most impartial and disinterested of enquirers. You must never be partisan, eager for the Truth to have such and such a character. There are two armies in the The Enlightened Army and the Endarkened Army ... the Army of Reason and the Army of Unreason, the Army of Truth and the Army of the Lie. Which army will you join? What’s your sacred cause – the single, objective Truth, or the subjective “all truths” = “all lies”? Only one army is fighting to clear the way to the Truth ... the Illuminist Army. Everywhere, we are surrounded by the Forces of Darkness, the armies of the Lie. Nothing is more feared than the Truth for the simple reason that the Truth isn't what people want it to be, and they can't bear it. People want the Truth to be created in their own image, serving their own agenda. The last thing they want is to have to work out what the Truth is and then accommodate its agenda, which is nothing at all to do with them. Only the greatest heroes - the Grail Knights - can find the Truth. The Grail Knights are the vanguard of the Illuminist Army. Will you join us? 2. The Citizen Army by Brother Spartacus ----------------------------------------- The Citizen Army is a collection of contributions by members of the online Illuminist community who were brave enough to take part in Project Spartacus. Their work is accompanied by an extensive commentary by the AC/GS team. This book shows that the online Illuminist community has enough talent and energy to form the vanguard of a genuine Citizen Army to carry forward the great cause of bringing about a Second and Final meritocratic Enlightenment, a true Age of Reason, based on the Principle of Sufficient Reason, expressed through ontological mathematics. 3. Illuminism Contra Discordianism by Brother Cato --------------------------------------------------- "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." - Wittgenstein. We use language to think, to talk to each other, to write, to form beliefs, religions, philosophies, and so on. But what if we are using the wrong language? Do we have "wrong thoughts" because we are using the wrong language? Do we have wrong religions and philosophies for exactly the same reason? What's the right language? If we could find the right language, could we then think correctly, without error, without delusion, without fantasy? Would the right language give us the right religion, the right philosophy? Would it explain reality to us? Discordians hate Truth. The struggle between the Discordians (in all their various forms) and the Illuminati is the most important there is. The soul of humanity is at stake. The Truth itself is the prize to be won or lost. 4. The Dunciad by Brother Malus -------------------------------- “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” – Jonathan Swift This is a book about stupid people. Dunces are everywhere. They are infecting the world with their ignorance, their irrationalism, their illogic. They are blocking human evolution. There is no more pressing question for smart people than what to do about idiots. The intelligent cannot succeed while the unintelligent are wrecking everything, dragging everything down to the lowest common denominator, always racing to the bottom. This subject is nothing new. All intelligent people have always been aware of the dreadful force of stupidity, which has, if truth be told, been the most powerful and ubiquitous force in human history, to the extreme detriment of humanity. A modern expression of this moronic force is trolling, whereby anomic retards try to sabotage and mock all things high-minded and intelligent. This book is an exploration – through case studies of real trolls – of the modern phenomenon of vicious, sadistic, cretinous trolling. The 18th century expert on dunces and trolls was Britain’s Alexander Pope. In his mock-epic The Dunciad, he mercilessly satirized the stupid people all around him. We shall use his work as a starting point for our adventure into the underworld of dim, dull, dense people. Without fail, these idiots manifest the Dunning-Kruger they all suffer from a superiority complex. Their estimation of their abilities bears no resemblance to the objective reality of their meagre and usually non-existent talents. We shall delve into The Dunciad and show how all of its central themes and concerns are even more pressing in today’s world.