/lit/ - Literature

>>21641580
>For example quantum mechanics, as many people love to point out, has a lot of huge metaphysical implications that science by its nature cannot say anything

there were a few nutjobs like RAW who dabbled with quantum mechanics but he was a writer, not a philosopher

>>21408780
GR is an Illuminatus rip off

>>20903347
>Why is no other post-modern writer like Pynchon?

*ahem*

>>20575328
>People accusing others of constantly being a fed are the real feds.

it seems operation mindfuck never went out of style...

"The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of
most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he
or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty. I use what in modern physics is
called the "multi-model" approach, which is the idea that there is more than one model to cover a given set of facts. As I've
said, novel writing involves learning to think like other people. My novels are written so as to force the reader to see things
through different reality grids rather than through a single grid. It's important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that
makes people think their way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to get people
into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. If one can only see
things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. It's only possible to
see people when one is able to see the world as others see it. That's what guerrilla ontology is — breaking down this one-model
view and giving people a multi-model perspective."-Robert Anton Wilson

i like Robert Anton Wilson short review on his book:

The Ego and His Own, by Max Stirner
Libertarian Book Club, New York, 1964, $1.95

This is probably the most disturbing, shocking and generally infuriating book in the whole history of political philosophy. First published in Germany in 1844, it aroused a violent storm of controversy—and, then, inexplicably, was suddenly forgotten. In 1907, the first American translation ignited another storm of controversary—which again died out quickly. It remains to be seen
what will be the fate of this new edition.

Max Stirner was (aside from the somewhat psychotic Marquis de Sade) the only political-ethical thinker in all history who deliberately rejected all forms of authority over the individual. Since he was a German, living in the Age of Hegel, he saw fit to express this ultra-individualistic position in an exhaustive (and exhausting) book. The Ego and His Own starts out by giving the Church the worst drubbing it has had since Voltaire and Tom Paine; but that is only the beginning. Stirner then proceeds to tear down the idealism of the State, monarchistic or democratic, and then in turn demolishes the various forms of liberalism, socialism and radicalism. All that remains undemolished by Stirner’s destructive logic is—the Ego and his own.

If you are an individualist, or think you are, you should read Stirner to find out if you are willing to carry self-assertion as far as he. (You probably will draw the line long before he does.) If you are not an individualist, beware—this book will give you high blood pressure. A final word of warning: Ayn Rand disciples will not like Stirner, who ends up his book as a socialist, albeit a peculiarly egotistic socialist. (No socialist party around today would accept Stirner, except the anarchists, and even most of them reject him.) Who will like this book? The man who has the guts to think for himself and who refuses to bow to any authority except his own independent judgement.

The Ego and His Own reviewed by Robert Anton Wilson appeared in Jaguar, Volume 1, Issue 6 in November 1965.

>>18924780
>Supposedly they contact anyone even the slightest bit involved in culture. Any proof of this?

they contacted robert anton wilson and gave him a big paycheck for his conspiracy books, he of course didn´t know that they were part of the federal government

also was very naive about his friend Timothy Leary who was a glownigger, Hunter L Thompson went on a rant that he was despicable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdEE3ZYWdM

>>18537284
>why are so few writers nowadays maniac, schizo drunkard chads?

most of these writers came from the counter-culture of the 60s and were heavily anti-establishment

and nowadays it´s like the opposite of the 60s

>>18102510
not what your asking for but this essay will let you know that ideologies are bullshit in general and it´s safer to trust your gut

https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/robert-anton-wilson-left-and-right-a-non-euclidean-perspective

>>17781193
>It's a cliche but the only explanation I can think of for this widespread lunatic behavior is that it was a replacement for religion after Christianity(or Judaism) had been abandoned.

yes, you cracked the code, ideology is like a virus who infects everyone who believes it, and manipulates them in irrational ways to preserve itself

>>16960902
>He literally makes this argument lmao

read RAW´s review

>This is probably the most disturbing, shocking and generally infuriating book in the whole history of political philosophy. First published in Germany in 1844, it aroused a violent storm of controversy—and, then, inexplicably, was suddenly forgotten. In 1907, the first American translation ignited another storm of controversary—which again died out quickly. It remains to be seen
what will be the fate of this new edition.

>Max Stirner was (aside from the somewhat psychotic Marquis de Sade) the only political-ethical thinker in all history who deliberately rejected all forms of authority over the individual. Since he was a German, living in the Age of Hegel, he saw fit to express this ultra-individualistic position in an exhaustive (and exhausting) book. The Ego and His Own starts out by giving the Church the worst drubbing it has had since Voltaire and Tom Paine; but that is only the beginning. Stirner then proceeds to tear down the idealism of the State, monarchistic or democratic, and then in turn demolishes the various forms of liberalism, socialism and radicalism. All that remains undemolished by Stirner’s destructive logic is—the Ego and his own.

>If you are an individualist, or think you are, you should read Stirner to find out if you are willing to carry self-assertion as far as he. (You probably will draw the line long before he does.) If you are not an individualist, beware—this book will give you high blood pressure. A final word of warning: Ayn Rand disciples will not like Stirner, who ends up his book as a socialist, albeit a peculiarly egotistic socialist. (No socialist party around today would accept Stirner, except the anarchists, and even most of them reject him.) Who will like this book? The man who has the guts to think for himself and who refuses to bow to any authority except his own independent judgement.

>>16648189
i´m ashamed that butty is the one reccomending robert wilson here, it should´ve been me LOIS

>>15783299
>having an ideology

cringe

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/robert-anton-wilson-left-and-right-a-non-euclidean-perspective

>>14733692
i think his work was a satire, pushing to the extreme so he could see how plebs would´ve reacted to it, either way, read RAW´s review

http://rawilsonfans.de/en/the-ego-and-his-own/

>>14483456
>read the illuminatus trilogy if your 24 or younger. then read the sequel to that

there´s no sequel to illuminatus, unless you´re mentioning Bride of Illuminatus which was never completed, Schrodinger´s Cat isn´t the sequel of illuminatus (homing pigeons is non-canon)

The vibrator — first as shady joke, then a growing fad — has already prepared us for the technologization of sex, so introduction of the artificial sex partner will come as little surprise.

Rudimentary doll-like models are already for sale, one [called the Deep Throat model — naturally] is even capable of performing fairly realistic fellatio. Hedy Lamarr’s autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, reveals that a former lover of hers had a very elaborate imitation Hedy manufactured to give him solace when their affair went on the rocks. Such developments indicate that in sex, as elsewhere, desire plus money equals results — or, as George S. Kaufman once said of a friends‘ new estate, “This is what God could have done, if He’d had the money.”

Are we talking about substitute sex for the crippled, the malformed, the hopelessly ugly or neurotic? Only in the first generation of such technology. Brain-wave and other bio-feedback studies lead inevitably into the concept of cybernetic sex robots programmed to scan neural signals from the human partner and provide exactly, precisely, exquisitely what is desire in every second of sexual union. In fact, reports from Masters and Johnson indicate that their crude and pre-cybernetic [brainless] ACE model [artificial coital equipment] produced no frustration in the women who tried it. Eventually such mechanized substitutes can be programmed for an effect “better than the real thing,” as William S. Burroughs fantasised in his sixties science fiction novel “The Soft Machine.”

In recent years, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Baltimore possessed a 100-pound robot affectionately dubbed The Beast, that knows how to “feed” itself, i.e., to seek electric outlets and recharge its circuits when its power runs low. Sim one, an experimental robot at University of Southern California, has the external features of a man, stands over six feet tall and has a normal pulse rate, blood pressure and heartbeat; is white-skin coloured, moves its diaphragm and chest in simulation of breathing, and even possesses a tongue, teeth, and vocal cords. Sim’s keepers plan improved models that will sweat, bleed, cry out in pain, and eventually replace cadavers in training medical students. The Sim One of today combined with the Masters and Johnson ACE of today would already constitute a crude artificial playmate for women. A more complex Hedy Lamarr doll [or Linda Lovelace, or Raquel Welch or..] cannot be far away. [Recall the movie Blade Runner (Philip K. Dick) where NASA coerced Earth’s inhabitants to leave the planet by providing them with a humanoid playmate.]

>>14218087
yes, RAW knew how to please his audience

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>>13034007
>>13033964

what about Robert Anton Wilson?

>>12533960

>I have been called a “sexist” (by Arlene Meyers) and a “male feminist ... a simpering pussy-whipped wimp” (by L.A. Rollins), “one of the major thinkers of the modern age” (by Barbara Marx Hubbard) and “stupid” (by Andrea Chaflin Antonoff), a “genius” (by SOUNDS, London) and “mentally deranged” (by Charles Platt), a “mystic” and “charlatan” (by the Bay Area Skeptics) and a “materialist” (by an anonymous gent in Seattle who also hit me with a pie); one of my books has even been called “the most scientific of all science-fiction novels” (by New Scientist physics editor John Gribbon) and “ranting and raving” (by Neal Wilgus). I am also frequently called a “Satanist” in some amusing, illiterate and usually anonymous crank letters from Protestant Fundamentalists.

>>11893503
if your entire self-worth relies on a ideology, you´re no different compared to a religious zealot, pathetic human being, you´re slave to ideology, i pity you anon