Robert Anton Wilson
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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. I propose that unemployment is not a disease, but the natural, healthy functioning of an advanced technological society. 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.
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Robert Anton Wilson and Asymetrical Realities
A Non Euclidean Rumination On Subliminal Rationalists and Recalling Robert Anton Wilson “Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.” -Robert Anton WilsonRobert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson (1932- NEVER ) One of the most profound and important scientific philosophers of this century, Wilson has written many important works of fiction and non-fiction.
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikiquote
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. Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. 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 .Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipédia
Son œuvre la plus connue - The Illuminatus! Trilogy ( 1975 ), co-écrite avec Robert Shea - examinait de manière humoristique la paranoïa américaine des conspirations . Ce livre mélangeait des informations véritables et de la fiction afin d'engager le lecteur dans ce que Wilson appelle l'« Operation Mindfuck ». Ce livre fut décrit comme un « conte de fées pour paranoïaques ». Par la suite Wilson continua à étendre dans ses autres œuvres le thème développé dans son livre sur les Illuminati . 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 .
Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson , January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007), known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher , psychologist , essayist , editor , playwright, poet, futurist , civil libertarian [ 1 ] and self-described agnostic mystic . Recognized as an episkopos , pope, and saint of Discordianism , Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings, interviews, and strolls. [ clarification needed ] Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". [ 2 ] His goal being "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism , not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything " (cf. solipsism , acatalepsia , Pyrrhonism ). [ 3 ]
