Robert Anton Wilson
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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.
…one of the results, one of the inevitable byproducts of jesuit education. The jesuits educated the marquis de sade and Diderot and Voltaire and James Joyce and Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown, I don't know about that case, but they are very good at producing…
…belief that really does exist to produce this resultant, or it proves that you don't need conspiracies to produce chaos. As Voltaire suggested, human stupidity approximates to the infinite anyway so we don't need conspiracies to explain it all, because I am…
…of Independence were freemasons but when you go over to France you find the same types were running the French Revolution. Voltaire was a freemason, the jacobin club was freemasons and the same thing happened in Mexico the Mexican Revolution of 1810 was…
…profit out of keeping those laws on the books. For years I thought: well there's a lot of stupidity in the human race. Voltaire said the only way to get at any concept of what mathematicians mean by infinity is to consider the extent of human stupidity.…
…second gear. Stupidity forces the intelligent to move into first gear and make extra efforts in order to survive. And as Voltaire said you cannot get any concept of human stupidity until you've mastered the mathematical meaning of infinity. The extent of…
…that he had the upsurge of people talking about progress, the kind of crazy stuff I'm talking about tonight people like Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Locke was a little before that Jefferson, Tom Paine and in general the people known as the 18th century…
…idea from ted sturgeon. As for intelligence increase throughout history there's been this general impression that stupidity was an incurable problem. Voltaire sort of summarized all thinking up until his time when he said that the only way to get an inkling…
…Lasting? I wrote three historical novels in the 1980s and one of the most disillusioning things I found out was that Voltaire, that paragon of reason and skepticism and caution, Voltaire had a period in which he thought the Catholic Church would be…
…1980s and one of the most disillusioning things I found out was that Voltaire, that paragon of reason and skepticism and caution, Voltaire had a period in which he thought the Catholic Church would be gone in 20 years. That was after they dissolved the…
…idea from ted sturgeon. As for intelligence increase throughout history there's been this general impression that stupidity was an incurable problem. Voltaire sort of summarized all thinking up until his time when he said that the only way to get an inkling…
…of the results one of the inevitable byproducts of jesuit education. The jesuits educated the marquis de sade and Diderot and Voltaire and James Joyce and Jerry Brown. I don't know about that case, but they are very good at producing intellectually…
…was that stupidity has been around so long it must be serving some evolutionary function, and there's so much of it. As Voltaire said the only way to begin to understand what mathematicians mean by infinity is to consider the extent of human stupidity and…
…talk about the evolutionary advantages of stupidity. Yeah well there's so much stupidity around it must be serving a function. Voltaire said the only way to understand what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity, and…
…1812. He was a member of the bavarian illuminati. He was there on the day they initiated Thomas Jefferson in Paris. He knew Voltaire Personally and he's buried in a churchyard in Vienna. And I got all this under hypnosis and one of these days I'm going…
…idea from ted sturgeon. As for intelligence increase throughout history there's been this general impression that stupidity was an incurable problem. Voltaire sort of summarized all thinking up until his time when he said that the only way to get an inkling…
…types anymore in some order yeah, I mean, you know they used to get people like Beethoven and Mozart and Haydn and Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and people like that. Now who do they get? Probably the vice president in charge of…
…bourgeoisie who's terrified of further revolutions, which explains why the typical 18th century freemason was somebody like Jefferson, Voltaire, Ben franklin, Mozart, all avant Garde Revolutionary thinkers and the typical freemasons of today are people like j…