In New York on the last day of an American tour, absorbing the demise of Yankee Stadium and maybe of Wall Street as we thought we knew it, Zizek’s talk is a blast-furnace but not a blur. The theme through all Zizek’s gags is that the financial meltdown marks a seriously dangerous moment — dangerous not least because, as in the interpretation of 9.11, the right wing is ready to impose a narrative. And the left wing is caught without a narrative or a theory.

Lecture and Q&A by Robert Anton Wilson at Sonoma State University, November 12, 1989. Topics range across the Bush–Quayle administration, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rajneeshpuram, the apotheosis of power, the history of intoxication, the Pooka, the John Hull / Contra-cocaine affair, and a long extended Q&A.

Psychedelic Salon podcast episode #619 — Robert Anton Wilson on the Information Age (Part 2 of 2).