and the satirical religion of Discordianism – have adopted the Emperor as their patron saint. As Joel Gazis-Sax wrote in his 1997 essay, The Madness of Joshua Norton: “Most who remember and ...

It was, said the BBC, a "parody text for a parody faith" called "Discordianism". Some of the main proponents of this new ideology were writers Robert Anton Wilson and Kerry Thornley, who wanted to ...

“At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last 9 years and 10 ...

Rather people like Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill (who founded Discordianism in 1957 in California) admitted that they made it up, they wrote the scripture Principia Discordia, and it was not meant to ...