By emphasizing the creative instead of emphasizing order it is possible to help bring about a culture that understands that creative disorder is often necessary for art, culture and life. In writing about the idea of Eris, Wilson noted that people in our culture tend to split the world into order versus disorder, but in fact, if you understand creativity there are always at least four possibilities, not two: creative order, destructive order, creative disorder, destructive disorder. Eris was the goddess who threw out the golden apple that started the Trojan War. Wilson and several friends started the Erisian Movement, named after the Goddess of Chaos, Eris or Discordia. Frizzle, in the Magic School Bus series, telling her kids, “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.” It’s exactly the opposite of the push in today’s culture, to “get it right, pour on the homework, choose your career carefully, don’t rock the boat.” The idea of jaytalking also reminds me of a wonderful notion that was put forth many years ago-only partly as a joke- by the science fiction writer Robert Anton Wilson. I love Marshall Berman’s notion of jaytalking. Response to Marshall Berman Margot Adler ▪ Winter 2000
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