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Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007
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I have just learned that Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Illuminatus! and Schrodringer's Cat trilogies, accidental John the Baptist figure of the Church of the Subgenius, and just all around mad-laughing-genius expert on the strange things people wind up believing, died yesterday. He was 74.
[quote=Robert Anton Wilson, 1995] According to reliable sources, I died on February 22, 1994 — George Washington’s birthday. I felt nothing special or shocking at the time, and believed that I still sat at my word processor working on a novel called Bride of Illuminatus. At lunch-time, however, when I checked my voice mail, I found that Tim Leary and a dozen other friends had already called to ask to speak to me, or — if they still believed in Reliable Sources — to offer support and condolences to my grieving family. I quickly gathered that news of my tragic end had appeared on the Internet in the form of an obituary from the Los Angeles Times: “Noted science-fiction author Robert Anton Wilson was found dead in his home yesterday, apparently the victim of a heart attack. Mr. Wilson, 63, was discovered by his wife, Arlen.
“Mr. Wilson was the author of numerous books… He was noted for his libertarian viewpoints, love of technology and off the wall humor. Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife and two children.â€[/quote]
[quote=Robert Anton Wilson, 1995] According to reliable sources, I died on February 22, 1994 — George Washington’s birthday. I felt nothing special or shocking at the time, and believed that I still sat at my word processor working on a novel called Bride of Illuminatus. At lunch-time, however, when I checked my voice mail, I found that Tim Leary and a dozen other friends had already called to ask to speak to me, or — if they still believed in Reliable Sources — to offer support and condolences to my grieving family. I quickly gathered that news of my tragic end had appeared on the Internet in the form of an obituary from the Los Angeles Times: “Noted science-fiction author Robert Anton Wilson was found dead in his home yesterday, apparently the victim of a heart attack. Mr. Wilson, 63, was discovered by his wife, Arlen.
“Mr. Wilson was the author of numerous books… He was noted for his libertarian viewpoints, love of technology and off the wall humor. Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife and two children.â€[/quote]
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Sorry to see him die, though - the books are a hell of an experience, at least.
A few days later, I left a copy of the Illuminatus! trilogy on his doorstep just to mess with him. Hope he liked it.
Lemme guess. Cause of death as yet unknown, but the authorities have discovered traces of gas and a small amount of radioactive material on the premises?
[spoiler:6ba8ec1bcb]I know, heart attack. It's just a Schroedinger's Cat joke.[/spoiler:6ba8ec1bcb]
I actually enjoyed a lot of R.A. Wilson's work, even if it was really out there. He seemed to one of those people who walked that fine line between genius and insanity. If anyone is curious, you can find a number of freely available audio files of his lectures, comedy stand-up routine, and even his collaborative music with The Golden Horde at http://www.rawilsonfans.com/download.html.
Sounds like a seriously informed and kick ass person. Good to see more people question the origins of 9/11 and AIDS. I used to be under the spell of the government after 2001, then a close army friend of mine started telling me about stuff I should research.
Of course, it's much more acceptable to say "the governments a bunch of incompetent idiots who messed up on Iraq" than to say a global Satanic elite stages wars, uses radical Muslims to create chaos, and enslaves humanity through harmful globalization.
Robert Anton Wilson is definately a legend in my book. While it was done in tongue and cheek, he brought the subject of corrupt Lucerferian worshipping elites to the mainstream, something that had only been whispered about behind the corridors of power.
I personally never read his Illuminatus trilogy, but Ive done a lot of research on some of the thing it touches upon. It seemed more satiracle than polemic.
Of course, my fave authors are by far William Gibson, Thomas Harris and Jim Marrs.
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Our government was slow to appreciate the danger posed by AIDS, was slow to respond in the aftermath of Katrina, and did not act swiftly on intelligence foreshadowing the 9/11 attacks.
But when reasonable people try to raise public awareness of these failures, they are often drowned out by loudmouth idiots spouting bullshit they read in some counterculture "news" blog about HIV being a CIA bio-weapon, or Katrina being produced by microwave beams from a satellite, or 9/11 having been carried out by unmanned remotely-piloted aircraft.
This constant crying "wolf" just wrecks the credibility, by association, of anyone who criticizes the current administration. So that when evidence really does come to light that, for instance, our President deliberately misled the American people into a war, it takes years and thousands of deaths before the public begins to listen to what the opposition has to say.