YMMV / Illuminatus!

• Adaptation Displacement: More people know of Discordianism through Illuminatus! than through Principia Discordia.
• Anvilicious: Multiple examples:
  • “Authoritarianism is bad.”
  • “Classifying people into arbitrary categories of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ only leads to Black-and-White Insanity.”
  • “Unforgiveness is bad.”
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: 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.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The Discordians blow up a hole through the Pentagon.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • 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 Nirvana. In fact, not all the band names are fictional; for example H. P. Lovecraft were a real sixties garage rock group, and (the original) Nirvana were a sixties psych group.
  • One of the many characters bearing a Punny Name is detective Saul Goodman. Over three decades later, that name would be made famous by someone on the other side of the law.
• Memetic Mutation: fnord
• Sliding Scale of Libertarianism and Authoritarianism: Take a guess.
• Values Resonance: 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 the '70s.

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