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Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They’re the ones who look like hippies Picture Quote #1

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization Picture Quote #1

In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, ‘traditional family values’ denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.) Picture Quote #1

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) Picture Quote #1

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten? Picture Quote #1

Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to ‘ignore’ certain kinds of information - that which does not ‘fit’ their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O’Hara Picture Quote #1

I’m the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject Picture Quote #1

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists Picture Quote #1

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I’m a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively Picture Quote #1

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren’t worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times Picture Quote #1

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If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we’re not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don’t deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution Picture Quote #1

Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

People’s belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be Picture Quote #1

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’ Picture Quote #1

The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct Picture Quote #1

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You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can’t stop me... It’s called senility Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim Picture Quote #1

People who’ve been through our educational system, they think they’re thinking, when they’re just repeating like parrots Picture Quote #1

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates Picture Quote #1

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence Picture Quote #1

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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history Picture Quote #1

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct Picture Quote #1

A true initiation never ends Picture Quote #1

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia Picture Quote #1

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad, but not ill Picture Quote #1

The average is that which no person quite ever is Picture Quote #1

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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They’re the ones who look like hippies (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, ‘traditional family values’ denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.) (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) 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) (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten? (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to ‘ignore’ certain kinds of information - that which does not ‘fit’ their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) 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 (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) [Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O’Hara (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) I’m the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I’m a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren’t worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we’re not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don’t deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) 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. (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) People’s belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be... (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) 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’. (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can’t stop me... It’s called senility. (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) 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 . (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim. (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) People who’ve been through our educational system, they think they’re thinking, when they’re just repeating like parrots. (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates. (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence.... (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) A true initiation never ends (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad, but not ill (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes) The average is that which no person quite ever is (Robert Anton Wilson Quotes)

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