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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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There's a great universe just next door.
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You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.
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If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
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People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
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Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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