We’re living in Robert Anton Wilson’s world

These days, choosing your politics is a matter of choosing who you’re more afraid of, the Washington cabal that’s openly trying to erase your freedoms or the various foreign cabals that are openly trying to kill you.

If there’s a central message to Wilson’s work, the [new documentary Maybe Logic] tells us, it’s the agnostic notion that you can’t be completely certain about anything -- and that even when you’re pretty sure an idea is baseless, it might be fun to entertain it for an evening. Somewhere between absolute belief and absolute incredulity, he tells us, the universe contains a maybe. To which anyone who follows the news these days can reply: No doubt.

el - I have read both Pychon's Gravity's Rainbow and the Shea and Wilson trilogy Illuminatus! (the latter in the unbowdlerised original editions.) Some of the silliest sexiest scenes of all time are heavily redacted in the book available now, fnord.