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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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Ayn Rand

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4:09

…the last volume of das kapital in 1892. There's the objectivist theory which holds that everything was explained when Ayn Rand published atlas shrugs in the early 1950s. And then there's the fundamentalist theory that everything was explained when the…

4:50

…the last volume of das kapital in 1892. There's the objectivist theory which holds that everything was explained when Ayn Rand published atlas shrugged in the early 1950s. And then there's the fundamentalist theory that everything was explained when the…

5:19

…The chief examples of the macho flashing that were used to exemplify this principle were my book defending the undefendable and Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was seen as a macho flasher and this was supposed to be a turnoff for libertarianism. You can imagine…

5:20

…chief examples of the macho flashing that were used to exemplify this principle were my book defending the undefendable and Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was seen as a macho flasher and this was supposed to be a turnoff for libertarianism. You can imagine what I…

5:35

…think of that concept. I'm against macho flash or I favor doing it. I think that it's highly productive. I think that if Ayn Rand is accused of this and I'm put in her category I'm certainly in good company when it comes to promoting libertarianism. Let…

5:47

…when it comes to promoting libertarianism. Let me just pull a little quiz on you to see to what extent or what effect Ayn Rand has had an influence on libertarianism would those of you who have been affected by her either greatly or slightly to your…

1:19:33

…I think we have to look at that very differently than we look at legitimate private property. For example I remember when Ayn Rand did her analysis of cashing in the student rebellion she was vitriolic and very unhappy with the student protesters who were…

37:32

…world. The protocols of the elders of Zion is one of those books in which the alleged villains talk like the villains in an Ayn Rand novel, which is the kind of thing I can't believe for a minute because all the villains I've met in the real world…

47:16

…great laughter great what laughter Jimmy Hoffa great jumping Jehoshaphat I was talking to jimmy the other day, laughter, who asked about Ayn Rand. I think the whole key to Ayn Rand is in the footnote in Barbara Brandon's the passion of Ayn Rand the…

47:18

…great jumping Jehoshaphat I was talking to jimmy the other day, laughter, who asked about Ayn Rand. I think the whole key to Ayn Rand is in the footnote in Barbara Brandon's the passion of Ayn Rand the footnote in which she mentions that Ayn Rand was…

47:23

…who asked about Ayn Rand. I think the whole key to Ayn Rand is in the footnote in Barbara Brandon's the passion of Ayn Rand the footnote in which she mentions that Ayn Rand was taking amphetamine every day for 30 years and said some people have…

47:27

…to Ayn Rand is in the footnote in Barbara Brandon's the passion of Ayn Rand the footnote in which she mentions that Ayn Rand was taking amphetamine every day for 30 years and said some people have misinterpreted this as meaning that she became a speech…

48:08

…a 90 page speech? Nobody but a speed freak would think something like that belonged in a novel. Wouldn't you say that both Ayn Rand and jimmy Hoffa are concrete fountains? I'll tell you one thing: I went through a brief period of going around acting as…

48:25

Ayn Rand and jimmy Hoffa are concrete fountains? I'll tell you one thing: I went through a brief period of going around acting as though Ayn Rand was a pain in the ass and all that sort of thing, and I sort of regret that because as a matter of fact…

49:10

…bit better though I think max Stirner is somebody we should read with some regularity. Maybe I like max Stirner Better than Ayn Rand because I never met max Stirner. Bizarre personal habits and why they are important. I don't know anybody with any bizarre…

2:32:04

…it is I'm going to call it the euclidean complex. Yeah it is. It was like some people say they felt when they first read Ayn Rand, when I first read Euclid when I was very small it was a burst, you know to think: good god the human mind is capable…

1:25:40

…everything in terms of the basic propositions of das kapital or I will explain everything in terms of the basic ideas of Ayn Rand, or I will make everything fit the pope's latest encyclical. You can have a very high level of intelligence there are…

1:25:53

…a very high level of intelligence there are brilliant jesuits. There are brilliant marxists. Are there some brilliant disciples of Ayn Rand? There must be. I just haven't met any of them. But that kind of rigid intellectuality interferes with higher…

8:31

…that could only happen in the dark ages but you hear it all the time that attitude these days. I met a disciple of Ayn Rand once who told me that after atlee shrugged he never read another book. I said what he said well she got everything right so…

3:53

…the last volume of das kapital in 1892. There's the objectivist theory, which holds that everything was explained when Ayn Rand published atlas shrugged in the early 1950s. And then there's the fundamentalist theory that everything was explained when the…

11:38

…religious groups. I was, believe it or not I was the trotskyist once, and then I became an objectivist which was cured by meeting Ayn Rand. All you've got to do is meet her once and that's enough to cure you. She was more dogmatic than all the popes…