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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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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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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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The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.
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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
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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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Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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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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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 only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
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The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
Robert Anton Wilson
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals censorship blocks transmission.
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