Robert Anton Wilson on Anarchism

James Joyce justified anarchism on the grounds that "the state is concentric and the individual is eccentric."

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[mingushead19]

Thank you for upload. Some interesting debate here. Misunderstanding QM seems inevitable. However, Im struggling to make sense of what you mean by the source is peripheral. It lacks clarity. The source of which information, how is its significance peripheral and what relevance has that to knwthyslf's comment? I think RAW rated himself too highly,he once claimed he was one of the smartest people alive. Interesting guy though.

[discordian420]

@mingushead19 He's attacking the speaker personally for trivial reasons rather than what RAW is actually saying. Read KnwThyslf's last comment.

[ykui1]

check out the channel called Stefbot

[ouluvme2]

Henry David Thoreau was spot on! Read Civil Disobedience and see for yourselves if you disagree with ANYTHING he said.

[MotherNikita]

I'm not an anarchist, but I love throwing bombs into buildings.

[DerrEinzige]

@ykui1

no thank you

[Dirge987]

@donnachadelong The problem with using capitalism, socialism, liberal, conservative, even anarchist is that all of those words have different meanings at different stages of time. Free market capitalism is as far from modern corporatism as it is from Marx's view of capitalism. Many of the socialists in the early 1900's had problems with "capitalism" because of how the state granted privileges to other elites which is not part of the free enterprise, free market (aka capitalist) system.

[Dirge987]

@donnachadelong Monarchs were governments, and they indeed created businesses or granted exclusive rights to a market. Modern government may or may not have been created by powerful elites, but your last sentence that capitalism will recreate government is not just an assertion without any justification, but it does not follow from any of the points you previous made, nor have you even defined capitalism. Seeing how you used the term bourgeoisie, I assume you mean the marxist definition.

[donnachadelong]

@Dirge987 The problem with this analysis is that it's completely wrong. Governments didn't create the original corporations - monarchs did. The original corporations were medieval, however, the origin of capitalist corporations is in the mercantalist period and the British royal charter. Modern government was created by the bourgeoisie to defend themselves against monarchs and charters - and they ended up copying them. Capitalism will recreate government, it's more efficient.

[sanitydotorg]

"I am not an Anarchist in your sense of the word: your brain is too dense for any known explosive to affect it." - Aleister Crowley

[Fathoms2004]

Old Bob, you have inspired us all.

[Bodhidharma1986]

Illuminatus, Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, Principia Discordia, SuBGenius.....Thx Bob Dobbs, Thx R.A.W :D