Apple Roller Of The Year, 2024

 

Yep, it's none other than Jimmy Carter, the U.S. president from 1977 to 1981. 

Think about it.  He was an outstanding type of Libra, ruled by the planet Eris YEARS before she was discovered but acting on her orders daily, in every situation.  He was an incredibly Discordian world leader.  

>> He served on battleships in the U.S. Navy but harmed a fly in his life, in blatant contradiction of what the military wants its sailors to do.  

>> As Commander-in-Chief, he busied himself brokering peace in the Middle East, something nobody else had ever really made much progress on.

>> In an incredibly hateful, violent, bitterly divided country, he's cheerfully worked building houses for Habitat for Humanity and raising funds for whoever might need them.

>> He held out in this lifestyle past his 100th birthday, voted in the 2024 election to show people who he wanted in the Oval Office, and then mercifully EXITED STAGE LEFT before Donald Trump came back into the White House, in an epic snub.

This is the essence of discord, peeps.  Where he saw war, he made peace, even if it looked completely impossible.  He disagreed even with disagreement itself.  He ignored unimportant twiddles like race and class and treated everyone as the most important and deserving person he'd ever met, right in the teeth of the way we do things in this species.

He even sneaked across the border to pretty much eradicate the dreaded Guinea Worm, bringing infections down from 3.5 million per year when he started to only 14 last year.  Just because he wanted to, and because nobody else did.  

In this world, that's purely Discordian.

I don't want to say there will never be another one like him.  I wish I could run him through a copier because this is the kind of discord we need more of.