Thursday, August 28, 2008

Some Robert Anton Wilson Stuff !!!

COMMUNICATION IS POSSIBLE ONLY BETWEEN EQUALS

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

Robert Anton Wilson, the Utopia USA interview

But a man with a gun (the power to punish) is told only what his target thinks will not cause him to pull the trigger. The elite, with their burden of omniscience, face the underlings, with their burden of nescience, and receive only the feedback consistent with their own preconceived notions. The burden of omniscience becomes, in short, another and more complex burden of nescience. Nobody really knows anything anymore, or if they do, they are careful to hide the fact.

Hagbard Celine, alter ego of Robert Anton WilsonCELINE'S LAWS

- As i thought about this it occured to me that i have some experience on the matter.
Having spent time in various workplaces, AS AN UNDERLING, you sometimes have to tell mgmt. About problems that deviate from there preconcieved notions. Possibly a diagram could be drawn up to plott their tolerance for such reminder and being rational i submit that they may allow it once or twice -possbily 3 times, but in excess of that- the above statement becomes very true. Such practicality can make this statement, for some, go from cliche to way of life.

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