The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe" cultures, including hackerdom.
Group of free thinkers who meet to discuss the arts and sciences, philosophy and theology
Reference
Eris, Jargon File
Members
David Boaz1997, "Competition, Cooperation and Community"
R. W. Bradford1997, "Comments on the 10th Anniversary of Liberty Magazine, conceived and founded at Eris"
Barbara Branden2000, "Ayn Rand As I Knew Her"
Peter Breggin2001, "Toxic Psychiatry"
Harry Browne1997, "On Running For President As a Libertarian"
Doug CaseyFounder, host
Esther Dyson2003
Michael R. Edelstein1997, "The Three Minute Therapy"
Michael Foudy1995, "Sincere Confessions of Well-Meaning Problem-Solving Former Statists"
Karl Hess1992, "The Key to Happiness"
Robert Higgs1996, "The Truth About America's Great Depression"
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel1997, "The Economic Impact of the Civil War: One Nation Under Big Government"
Richard J. Maybury1992, "The Story of My Secret War in Central America"
Wendy McElroy1996, "The Impact of Pornography On Women"
Russell Means1995, "Eurocentric Male's World View Industrial Culture VS Indigenous Culture"
Adrian T. Moore2001, "California’s Electricity Crisis: Let’s Hope We’re Not Trendsetting On This One!"
Stephen Moore2001, "His book, It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Past 100 Years"
Charles Murray1997, "Recreating the Jefferson Republic"
Ron Paul1991, "The Psychology of Congress"
Robert W. Poole, Jr.2001, "Taxation in the Global Cybereconomy"
Lawrence Reed1994, "Michigan Free Market: Is It Real or Is It Sominex?"
Jim Rogers1994, "Around the World by Motorcycle"
Mary Ruwart1994, "Eris Island Revisited: What Would a Free Society Be Like?"
J. Neil Schulman1998
Butler Shaffer2004, "In My Opinion, Everything That We Know Is a Matter of Opinion"
Michael Shermer2001, "Why People Believe in God: An Empirical Study on a Deep Question"
Mark Skousen1995, "Through A Glass Darkly: An Exposé of Paul Samuelson's Famous Economic Textbook"
Fred L. Smith1995, "Saving The Planet Without Savaging The People"
L. Neil Smith2000, "Back in the Saddle Again for the First Time"
Joan Kennedy Taylor1993, "Why Libertarians Should be Feminists"
Gordon Tullock1988, "Why I Like to Respond to Marxists"
Phil Zimmermann1994, "The War Against Pretty Good Privacy"
Websites
ErisSociety.org - The Eris Society
Archived website; sections include conferences (up to 2006), Erisians (list of speakers and some attendees at the meetings) and a news wiki (hosted at NuWiki.com)
Archived website; sections include conferences (up to 2006), Erisians (list of speakers and some attendees at the meetings) and a news wiki (hosted at NuWiki.com)
Eris is the Greek goddess of discord, whose golden apple was marked Kallisti — "to the fairest". The squabble over this apple created the jealousy that led to the Trojan War. We have adopted that name to describe a group of free thinkers who meet once a year to discuss the arts and sciences, philosophy and theology and any other subject which may lead us to the world of ideas beyond our workaday lives.
Web Pages
Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education: Doug Casey - Libertarian
Includes photograph, profile and quotes
Includes photograph, profile and quotes
Doug Casey travels 150,000 miles a year looking for bargains. Investment bargains, that is ... In 1981, he founded the Eris Society (named after the Greek goddess of discord), a group of 'free thinkers' who discuss the arts, science, philosophy, politics, and theology from a libertarian perspective.
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Articles
Presentation to The Eris Society 2000, by L. Neil Smith, 2000
Discusses Smith's plan for prevent an extinction level event, such as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, including related topics such as the diffent categories of asteroids, their chemical composition and terraforming
Discusses Smith's plan for prevent an extinction level event, such as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, including related topics such as the diffent categories of asteroids, their chemical composition and terraforming
Earlier this year, I promised Boston (Ken Royce) that I would speak to you today about how to get people back into space again (and real people into space for the first time) and why it's absolutely essential that we do it as quickly as possible. I also said it was imperative that the effort be carried out by libertarians, or at least on libertarian terms, and that I would explain the why of that, as well. I'll begin by confessing that I believe, in the words of Mr. Spock, that reaching for the stars is the "first best destiny" of humankind, and that's reason enough to do it.