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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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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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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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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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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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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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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
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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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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
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