The Rich economy - Antiwork. Featured Book Excerpt The RICH Economyby Robert Anton Wilson from The Illuminati Papers If there is one proposition which currently wins the assent of nearly everybody, it is that we need more jobs.
"A cure for unemployment" is promised, or earnestly sought, by every Heavy Thinker from Jimmy Carter to the Communist Party USA, from Ronald Reagan to the head of the economics department at the local university, from the Birchers to the New Left. I would like to challenge that idea. I don't think there is, or ever again can be, a cure for unemployment. The inevitable direction of any technology, and of any rational species such as Homo sap., is toward what Buckminster Fuller calls ephemeralization, or doing-more-with-less.
Unemployment is not a disease; so it has no "cure. " This tendency toward ephemeralization or doing more-with-less is based on two principal factors, viz: The increment-of-association, a term coined by engineer C.H. "But without working for wages we'll all starve to death!?! Society: Religion and Spirituality: Esoteric and Occult: Personalities: Wilson, Robert Anton. Robert Anton Wilson and Asymetrical Realities. The Robert Anton Wilson Website. Robert Anton Wilson Online Library. Robert Anton Wilson. Robert Anton Wilson. 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. Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American novelist, essayist, Absurdist philosopher, futurist, and guerilla ontologist, most famous for his satirical work (with Robert Shea), The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Quotes[edit] There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. I'm a libertarian because I don't trust the people as much as anarchists do. 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.
I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that's only because most people don't know what anarchist means. Robert Anton Wilson. Robert Anton Wilson. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson en 1977 Œuvres principales Robert Anton Wilson ou RAW, né le à Brooklyn dans l'État de New York et mort le (à 74 ans) à Capitola en Californie, est un écrivain américain. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Son œuvre la plus connue - The Illuminatus! Dans Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) ainsi que dans d'autres œuvres, il rendit accessible à une plus large audience des domaines tels que le discordianisme, le soufisme, le bouddhisme zen, les pratiques occultes d'Aleister Crowley, les Illuminati et autres philosophies ésotériques ou de la contre-culture. Dans une interview donnée en 2003 au magazine High Times, Wilson se décrit lui-même comme un « modèle agnostique » qui consiste à ne jamais considérer un modèle ou une carte de l'univers avec une foi totale ou un déni total.
Robert Anton Wilson.