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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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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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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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
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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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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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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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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 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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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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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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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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