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RIP: Robert Anton Wilson
Jan. 13th, 2007 11:25 amWilson was also the inspiration for the founding of two "religions": Discordianism and the Church of the Subgenius, whose high priest Ivor Stang called him "the Carl Sagan of religion, the Jerry Falwell of quantum physics and the Arnold Schwarzenegger of feminism".
Robert Anton Wilson
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 13/01/2007
Robert Anton Wilson, who died on Thursday aged 74, was co-author of the Illuminatus! trilogy and an influential gadfly of the counterculture.
Scarcely any alternative school of thought popularised since the 1960s escaped his attention as a promoter (or debunker, and often both) of conspiracy theories, theology, philosophy, psychology, occultism, chaos theory, neurolinguistic programming and quantum mechanics, or in his stints as an essayist, lecturer, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, punk musician, associate editor of Playboy and write-in candidate for governor of California, representing the Guns and Dope party – which also advocated equal rights for ostriches.
He justified the last of these roles by asking: "Why should I remain the only nutcase in Califonia who ain't running?" But it was a natural development of his career as an agent provocateur against convention.
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Robert Anton Wilson
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 13/01/2007
Robert Anton Wilson, who died on Thursday aged 74, was co-author of the Illuminatus! trilogy and an influential gadfly of the counterculture.
Scarcely any alternative school of thought popularised since the 1960s escaped his attention as a promoter (or debunker, and often both) of conspiracy theories, theology, philosophy, psychology, occultism, chaos theory, neurolinguistic programming and quantum mechanics, or in his stints as an essayist, lecturer, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, punk musician, associate editor of Playboy and write-in candidate for governor of California, representing the Guns and Dope party – which also advocated equal rights for ostriches.
He justified the last of these roles by asking: "Why should I remain the only nutcase in Califonia who ain't running?" But it was a natural development of his career as an agent provocateur against convention.
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