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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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James Watt

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27:59

…god wouldn't trust an englishman in the dark, or at least that's what they say in Ireland. Around 1750 well in 1765 actually, James Watt was looking at his mother's tea kettle and watching the lid pop up and down as the water heated and he thought: gee…

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38:09

…how to improve it, but they didn't think it was on the edge of mutating entirely but it was. Within a few years James Watt invented the steam engine and suddenly a new type of arrived which is known as civilization. And we've all heard so many…

35:09

…god wouldn't trust an englishman in the dark, or at least that's what they say in Ireland around 1750 well in 1765 actually, James Watt was looking at his mother's tea kettle and watching the lid pop up and down as the water heated and he thought, gee…

38:10

…to improve it but they didn't think it was on the edge of mutating internally but it was within a few years James Watt invented the steam engine and suddenly a new type of civilization arrived which is known as industrial civilization, and we've all…

21:12

…now since the czar took over. But following 1750 and only a few years I think about 17 no 15 years James Watt invented the steam engine and the industrial revolution started. This was accompanied by the American Revolution, our constitution, the French…

32:40

…would like to do again. By 1750 knowledge had doubled again and we had four jesus. It only took 250 years. In 1765 James Watt looked at the steam kettle on his mother's oven and noticed the top jumping up and down and thought the steam was creating…

11:17

…all, discussing economics and other factors in history. And we had four jesus and in the next half a century we had James Watt invented the steam engine and we had the beginning of the industrial revolution, followed rapidly on the political level by the…