O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten? Robert Anton Wilson More Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson More Quotes From Robert Anton Wilson Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. Robert Anton Wilson robotsrolessex The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it. Robert Anton Wilson madstrugglepeople I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible. Robert Anton Wilson warmeanbelieve Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction Robert Anton Wilson realbluefiction A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. Robert Anton Wilson communicationpowermean The fear of death is the beginning of slavery. Robert Anton Wilson slaveryfear-of-death The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves. Robert Anton Wilson starslandmoon The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization. Robert Anton Wilson principlesactionway I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop. Robert Anton Wilson balancestupiditypolitical under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being. Robert Anton Wilson anxietygriefmen Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Robert Anton Wilson crazydepressionmean Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel Robert Anton Wilson tunnelsanimalreality Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue. Robert Anton Wilson cnnmorningmean We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. Robert Anton Wilson constructstrappedmetaphor Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy. Robert Anton Wilson united-statescrazytoday Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson armyrunningpeople And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it. Robert Anton Wilson governmentdecisiongiving We live in our myths, we only endure reality. Robert Anton Wilson mythendurereality Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking. Robert Anton Wilson religiousfaiththinking My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. Robert Anton Wilson goaltryingpeople
