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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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Nietzsche

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1:48:30

…a cosmic schmuck, you start correcting yourself, you start checking your assumptions, you get a little more cautious. You develop what Nietzsche called the habit of caution. You develop the kind of sensibility that Lao Tzu Describes in the tao te Ching.…

20:43

…in the 1920s or around 1900 actually these are the hot intellectual issues in New York and things like that. And Nietzsche wrote about the decadent phase of every culture. The decadent phase is when people start writing things like ecclesiastes: the sun…

5:58

…a Buddhist point of view, then a freudian point of view then a marxist point of view then a nietzschean point of view. Nietzsche is peachy as somebody once said. Since my main topic is the future, intelligence increases only one aspect of the future it's…

6:27

…attitudes towards the future illustrate very well Nietzsche's Basic criticism of philosophy, which is that it's all autobiography. Or as Nietzsche said we're all greater artists than we realize. The crooked runways in Dublin Airport are an example of the…

15:22

…if history is autobiography, if art criticism is autobiography if we all create our own reality tunnels, then I'm getting back to Nietzsche again philosophy is autobiography. All the pessimism that's around these days I hate to break up a good thing I mean…

16:18

…better next week, I'm going to be even better next month and god knows how far I'll go. And these are as Nietzsche said, these are great attitudes towards life, like optimism and pessimism none of them can be validated philosophically, scientifically or in…

18:37

…And so you need a lot of different reality tunnels to start to begin to make a comprehensible picture, which is one reason Nietzsche said that life cannot evaluate life. Another reason is that we're embroiled in the midst of it and the idea that we can…

19:44

…you see should be regarded as the walking wounded. This is the best we can do under the circumstances. So in that sense Nietzsche is right we can't judge life because we're involved in it like on a life raft. We've escaped from a sinking ship and…

20:18

…this is what's really crucial in Nietzsche's Philosophy. This is what's known as the axiom of the internality of relations in Hegel. Nietzsche has a different version of it. You can't explain an Apple Without explaining the REST of the universe. I often in…

23:31

…are characteristic of healthy minds and which are characteristics of sick minds and pessimism seems to be a sign that Nietzsche documented a great length of decadent cultures, cultures on their way out, cultures that are collapsing, that have experienced the…

44:42

…would an American Indian Shaman make out of this? What would an English Banker or a Japanese Computer scientist make out of it? Nietzsche said the goal of the will to power is to continually transcend itself, and where it will eventually get to is that…

47:25

…few glazed faces and some yawns while I was on that topic so I moved past it but I believe I agree with Nietzsche and Hegel and Laozi that you can't understand an Apple Without understanding the whole universe. That's really known in modern physics as…

1:05:29

…stronger. And I thought: my god I've got something in common with Gordon Liddy because that is also my favorite quote from Nietzsche That's from Nietzsche's the twilight of the idol: anything that doesn't kill me makes me stronger. So that is the emotional…

32:21

…Alfred Korzybski, Shakespeare, Ovid Chaucer, Justine by de sade because it raises all the questions nobody can answer. Two books by Nietzsche, the antichrist and twilight of the idols the open society and its enemies by sir Karl Popper and gulliver's travels…

47:40

…cranks. Life has found a way to break through the concrete. Life seems to have a tremendous by missing and exuberance about it. Nietzsche called the world to power and life seems to be aiming at nothing less than the attainment of divinity. We are part…

51:00

…a self fulfilling prophecy. It may have been innate in evolution from the beginning or it may just have been invented by Nietzsche and a few other philosophers since Nietzsche, but it is possible and the more people who are excited about it and believe…

51:02

…have been innate in evolution from the beginning or it may just have been invented by Nietzsche and a few other philosophers since Nietzsche, but it is possible and the more people who are excited about it and believe in it and put their energy in it…

56:36

…in human nature or that it's just a matter of choice? The dionysian, quoting bringing in the dionysian idea from Nietzsche the dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational. And if you…

56:38

…it's just a matter of choice? The dionysian, quoting bringing in the dionysian idea from Nietzsche the dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational. And if you read Nietzsche Carefully what…

56:46

…dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational. And if you read Nietzsche Carefully what he's basically trying to describe in those poetic metaphors are what we nowadays think of as linear…

14:16

…Timothy Leary was an optimist up until the day he died of cancer, even though he knew he was dying for two years. Nietzsche regarded optimism as a sign of health and pessimism as a sign of illness and I tend to agree with Nietzsche. In addition…

14:23

…years. Nietzsche regarded optimism as a sign of health and pessimism as a sign of illness and I tend to agree with Nietzsche. In addition to that I think besides choosing optimism as a health measure, it's also a rebellion against the dominant pessimism…

14:34

…choosing optimism as a health measure, it's also a rebellion against the dominant pessimism of our culture, the decadence as Nietzsche called it of pessimistic cultures, and it's also an attempt to start a dialogue. If everybody agrees that there's no…

12:23

…us at the stake which they would do again the minute they had the freedom to do it. They would do it you know, as Nietzsche said it's not their love for us that keeps them from burning us at the stake anymore it's the impotence of their love. They…

49:09

…the cracks. Life has found a way to break through the concrete. Life seems to have a tremendous dionysian exuberance about it what Nietzsche called a will to power, and life seems to be aiming at nothing less than the attainment of divinity. We are in…

52:29

…a self fulfilling prophecy. It may have been innate in evolution from the beginning or it may just have been invented by Nietzsche and a few other philosophers since Nietzsche, but it is possible and the more people who are excited about it and believe…

52:31

…have been innate in evolution from the beginning or it may just have been invented by Nietzsche and a few other philosophers since Nietzsche, but it is possible and the more people who are excited about it and believe in it and put their energy in it…

58:04

…in human nature or that it's just a matter of choice? The dionysian, quoting bringing in the dionysian idea from Nietzsche. The dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational. And if you…

58:07

…it's just a matter of choice? The dionysian, quoting bringing in the dionysian idea from Nietzsche. The dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational. And if you read Nietzsche Carefully what…

58:14

…dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational. And if you read Nietzsche Carefully what he's basically trying to describe in those poetic metaphors are what we nowadays think of as linear…

21:40

…be trusted, that life is not a ball of cherries and that you've got to be pretty damn tough to survive. And then I read Nietzsche when I was about 18 and he gave me all the philosophy I needed to back up that general idea the universe doesn't give a…

21:58

…your own brother and learn to live with it. Anything that doesn't kill me makes me stronger. That's my favorite quote from Nietzsche: Anything that doesn't kill me makes me stronger. So did you spend very much time like actually in your room, unable to…

1:17:50

…place you just root it through the Netherlands and it comes right back onto the web in the United States again. And Nietzsche has always been a major influence, not zarathustra, the whole superman thing I don't care much for what I like is Nietzsche's…

13:03

…of those cliches that you hear all the time. If he stopped to think he'd realize I was very provoked. How about Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, were their attacks on thought and language provoked or unprovoked, well what would he say? I don't know what he'd…

1:22:18

…I suddenly realized I had a common bond with Gordon Libby. I recognized our common humanity. Because that's my favorite quote from Nietzsche: AIDS. When we find the cure for AIDS we will have longevity, because AIDS is based on the breakdown of the…

12:18

…cliches that you hear all the time. You know if he stopped to think he'd realize I was very provoked. How about Nietzsche and Wittgenstein? Were their attacks on thought and language provoked or unprovoked? Well what would he say? I don't know what he'd…

21:06

…and lost all their principles. If they keep their principles they're never successful. The whole area is a waste of intellect. As Nietzsche said the only role for the intellectual in politics is as a clown like wavy gravy, who runs nobody for president…

56:49

…that the disappearing donkey trick. We create our own individual hall and then we forget the artist who created that hall. Nietzsche said we are all greater artists than we realize. F w Nietzsche, German philosopher. Died 1900, born 1854. F w Nietzsche,…

56:54

…we forget the artist who created that hall. Nietzsche said we are all greater artists than we realize. F w Nietzsche, German philosopher. Died 1900, born 1854. F w Nietzsche, Freshwater Nietzsche. No Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. We are all greater artists…

57:01

…said we are all greater artists than we realize. F w Nietzsche, German philosopher. Died 1900, born 1854. F w Nietzsche, Freshwater Nietzsche. No Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. We are all greater artists than we realize. I just went through that Nietzsche

57:02

…we are all greater artists than we realize. F w Nietzsche, German philosopher. Died 1900, born 1854. F w Nietzsche, Freshwater Nietzsche. No Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. We are all greater artists than we realize. I just went through that Nietzsche rap to…

57:11

…w Nietzsche, Freshwater Nietzsche. No Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. We are all greater artists than we realize. I just went through that Nietzsche rap to help imprint it on you we are all greater artists than we realize. We're creating fantastic holograms all…

56:49

…that the disappearing donkey trick. We create our own individual hall and then we forget the artist who created that hall. Nietzsche said: we are all greater artists than we realize. F w Nietzsche, German philosopher, died 1900, born 1854. F w Nietzsche

56:54

…we forget the artist who created that hall. Nietzsche said: we are all greater artists than we realize. F w Nietzsche, German philosopher, died 1900, born 1854. F w Nietzsche Freshwater Nietzsche no Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. We are all greater artists…

57:01

…said: we are all greater artists than we realize. F w Nietzsche, German philosopher, died 1900, born 1854. F w Nietzsche Freshwater Nietzsche no Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. We are all greater artists than we realize. I just went through that Nietzsche

57:02

…we are all greater artists than we realize. F w Nietzsche, German philosopher, died 1900, born 1854. F w Nietzsche Freshwater Nietzsche no Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. We are all greater artists than we realize. I just went through that Nietzsche rap to…

57:11

…w Nietzsche Freshwater Nietzsche no Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. We are all greater artists than we realize. I just went through that Nietzsche rap to help imprint it on you we are all greater artists than we realize. We're creating fantastic holograms all…

32:21

…Korzybski, Shakespeare, Ovid, Chaucer, Justine by de sade because it raises all the questions nobody can answer two books by Nietzsche, the antichrist and twilight of the idols the open society and its enemies by sir Karl Popper, and gulliver's travels…

1:28:10

…in the 1920s or around 1900 actually these are the hot intellectual issues in New York and things like that. And Nietzsche wrote about the decadent phase of every culture. The decadent phase is when people start writing things like ecclesiastes: the sun…

12:28

…that person didn't hear every hand would go up again. It always works. That way we're all abstracting in different ways. Nietzsche said the basic nature of reality is chaos. Some people thought the discordians invented that philosophy, but it was actually…

12:36

…ways. Nietzsche said the basic nature of reality is chaos. Some people thought the discordians invented that philosophy, but it was actually Nietzsche. And out of this chaos or Nietzsche also calls it the abyss out of this chaos or this abysmal universe we…

12:40

…reality is chaos. Some people thought the discordians invented that philosophy, but it was actually Nietzsche. And out of this chaos or Nietzsche also calls it the abyss out of this chaos or this abysmal universe we each pick out certain parts and that…

13:47

…what the hell is going on their reality labyrinth is the weirdest thing. They're all nuts they believe strange things chaos. I think Nietzsche picked the word chaos because you can impose any form you want on it but any form you impose on it is too…

17:49

…are there now but 250 000 lawyers in a year can create a very close analog to the abysmal chaos that Nietzsche was talking about. This is the discordian law of chaos: Discord, Confusion, bureaucracy and aftermath. And it's really impossible for anybody…

1:15:38

…by the way if you're looking into an abyss look up when you look into an abyss the abyss looks into you. Nietzsche Nietzsche, Yes, Nietzsche, Ben murray, okay, regarding you three gentlemen and your somewhat damaged Catholic Psyche, I suppose I would get…

1:15:38

…way if you're looking into an abyss look up when you look into an abyss the abyss looks into you. Nietzsche Nietzsche, Yes, Nietzsche, Ben murray, okay, regarding you three gentlemen and your somewhat damaged Catholic Psyche, I suppose I would get demeanor…

1:15:40

…you're looking into an abyss look up when you look into an abyss the abyss looks into you. Nietzsche Nietzsche, Yes, Nietzsche, Ben murray, okay, regarding you three gentlemen and your somewhat damaged Catholic Psyche, I suppose I would get demeanor here…

1:19:42

…I always thought it was a classic, an honest man. Alright, you're an hour twenty five go ahead. You mentioned a book by Nietzsche a moment ago and since you like semantics and getting into some etymology, what would you make of the speculation about the…

1:19:54

…ago and since you like semantics and getting into some etymology, what would you make of the speculation about the name itself Nietzsche and the? The germanic languages, Nietzsche the Nietzsche part of it the very beginning of it is, in present day Dutch…

1:20:01

…and getting into some etymology, what would you make of the speculation about the name itself Nietzsche and the? The germanic languages, Nietzsche the Nietzsche part of it the very beginning of it is, in present day Dutch and in Northern German is nothing…

1:20:02

…into some etymology, what would you make of the speculation about the name itself Nietzsche and the? The germanic languages, Nietzsche the Nietzsche part of it the very beginning of it is, in present day Dutch and in Northern German is nothing the word…

41:27

…my specific point there I've been looking at Artaud Recently and I find him very interesting to me. He reminds me of Nietzsche in certain ways. One of the places he's coming from is what I'm calling skepticism about rationalism. This is the bad scene.…

43:08

…more by outrageous proposals than by sensible plans. The whole gonzo philosophy, going all the way back to surrealism or even to Nietzsche, is based on the recognition that human beings do not behave the way rationalists want them to behave and they never…

44:26

…you sit there in the bed sulking until you die. Or you decide I got hit by a car. Here is my chance to prove Nietzsche was right: anything that does not kill me makes me stronger and you get out of the hospital so fast the doctors are astounded.…

45:16

…the resultant of several thousand years of mammalian struggle. Well think of the kinds of meaning we can give it. As Nietzsche said we are all greater artists than we realize. People give the universe fantastic meanings. Imagine living in a nazi reality…

42:22

…of the human race which hasn't endured the experience of slavery or its conquest in slavery, and so we've all got what Nietzsche calls slave attitudes. And that makes up the fourth circuit of the brain. The fourth circuit is the circuit that's continually…

17:23

…the function of an Irish fact is to fuck up the heads of people who think they can find out what a fact is. Nietzsche said there are no facts only interpretations. The Dublin Attitude is: there are no facts only what you can get away with. And you…

48:30

…the cracks. Life has found a way to break through the concrete. Life seems to have a tremendous dionysian exuberance about it, what Nietzsche called a will to power, and life seems to be aiming at nothing less than the attainment of divinity. We are part…

51:50

…a self fulfilling prophecy. It may have been innate in evolution from the beginning or it may just have been invented by Nietzsche and a few other philosophers since Nietzsche, but it is possible, and the more people who are excited about it and believe…

51:52

…have been innate in evolution from the beginning or it may just have been invented by Nietzsche and a few other philosophers since Nietzsche, but it is possible, and the more people who are excited about it and believe in it and put their energy in it…

57:25

…human nature or that it's just a matter of choice? The dionysian quoting: we're bringing in the dionysian idea from Nietzsche. The dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational and if you…

57:28

…just a matter of choice? The dionysian quoting: we're bringing in the dionysian idea from Nietzsche. The dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational and if you read Nietzsche Carefully what…

57:35

…dionysian, the way Nietzsche uses dionysian it means ecstatic, as distinguished from apollonian, which is rational and if you read Nietzsche Carefully what he's basically trying to describe in those poetic metaphors are what we nowadays think of as linear…

36:25

…cosmic immortals we are becoming the gods that we imagined a long time ago. I think that's where evolution has been pointing. As Nietzsche said, what is man? A bridge between the ape and the superman, a bridge over an abyss. I think we've passed over…

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…war Ii. The universe opens to infinity in all directions. As Blake said you can see infinity in a grain of sand. Nietzsche said there are abysses everywhere once you start really looking. But because of our mammalian habits of breaking things down into…