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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
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Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called barbarism and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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