The "Church of the SubGenius"?

[Astarte]

Anyone familiar with it? I don't know much about it, curious to hear what comrades think about it?

[Book O'Dead]

Sound like something you get out of a bottle when you rub it.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Its a real organisation although it seemed to have morphed into a pop culture meme in the 90s.It was started by one Ivan Stang in the 80s and it may or may not be an offshoot of an actual extreme right wing Christian fundamentalist group. Stang made his group into a type of counter cultural parody. They are ostensibly very far right libertarians and constantly rant against "the Conspiracy" which is a plan by the ruling class to take away our individuality.They are so far right they are basically leftists and seem to be part of a cultural anarchist/Discordian mileu.


The church claims that true SubGenii are not actually human but descendants of the Yeti. According to Revelation X: The 'Bob' Apocryphon (published in 1994), SubGenii are actually the mutant offspring of a forbidden sexual union that took place millions of years ago between a resident of Atlantis and a human; at that time, humans were little more than a slave race. The resulting offspring was the catalyst that led to the fall of Atlantis. SubGenii often refer to one another as "Yeti" (or yetinsyny), though this origin story is generally not well known outside of the church itself. (The term yetinsyny was appropriated from the artist Stanisław Szukalski, whose Behold! the Protong posited that Communists and other people Szukalski disliked were descendant from such unions.)




The central belief in the church is the pursuit of Slack, which generally stands for the sense of freedom, independence, and original thinking that comes when you stop worrying about personal goals. In essence, Slack is about finding satisfaction with what you have and who you are, as opposed for searching for satisfaction in accomplishment.[citation needed] The church states that we are all born with Original Slack, but that Slack has been stolen from us by a worldwide conspiracy of normal people, or "pinks".[16] The church encourages originality and frowns on actions seen as pinkness, which happens when one bows down to authority and the accepted limits of society. Slack is also about doing nothing and getting what you want anyway. "Bob," being the center of the Slack plane, cannot fail; even his failures are startling successes as a result of his absurdly high Slack. Popular church phrases supporting these goals are "Give Me Slack or KILL ME!", "The SubGenius Must Have Slack" and "Fuck 'Em If They Can't Take A Joke".

Their motto is "You Need More Slack"They have an "Hour of Slack" radio show
http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html