RIP, RAW
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Thu, 2007-01-11 18:04.
Rest in peace, 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.”
“The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you’ve lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.”
“I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there’s no rational life here.”
“… 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.”
Fnord.