The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science

by Robert Anton Wilson

Overview

"For Bob, nothing was sacred and nothing was set in stone - except maybe the idea that fundamentalism is a dangerous dead end. Like Alfred Korzybski's Science and Sanity, Robert Anton Wilson's The New Inquisition seeks to rescue science from fundamentalist materialism, and the rest of us from the broader implications of this approach. It is at once a philosophical treatise and an act of cognitive defiance . . . His message is more important right now than it was when he wrote it. Our digital fundamentalists see human beings as an engineering problem to be solved. Behaviors and thoughts that do not conform to our algorithmically generated profiles are to be eliminated, and humans shepherded into the reality tunnels that obey the laws of rationality alone. We are right now being programmed by the very fundamental materialists RAW is warning us about on these pages."

- from Douglas Rushkoff's Introduction to The New Inquisition

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781734473544
Publisher:	Hilaritas Press, LLC.
Publication date:	04/23/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Author of some 35 books including Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, and co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson (RAW or Bob) was a futurist, author, lecturer, stand-up comic, guerrilla ontologist, psychedelic magician, outer head of the Illuminati, quantum psychologist, Taoist sage, Discordian Pope, Struthian politician . . . maybe. Bob described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with different perspectives recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". His goal being "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything." His "Maybe Logic" inspired the creation of the Maybe Logic Academy. Google "Robert Anton Wilson" for mosbunall info.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Douglas Rushkoff

Introduction by the Author

One — Models, Metaphors And Idols

Two — Skepticism And Blind Faith

Three — Two More Heretics And Some Further Blasphemies

Four — The Dance Of Shiva

Five — Chaos And The Abyss

Six — "Mind," "Matter" And Monism

Seven — The Open Universe

Eight — Creative Agnosticism

Editorial Reviews

"What great physicist hides behind the mask of Wilson?"
- New Scientist

"Malicious, misguided fanaticism."
- Robert Sheaffer, The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal

Finnegan quoting Sean Murphy, "Ah, Jaysus," he said, "I've never seen a boogerin' normal day." He paused to set down his pint, then added thoughtfully, "And I never met a fookin' average man neither"
- Timothy F.X. Finnegan, Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal

"OBSCENE, blasphemous, subversive and very, very interesting."
-- Alan Watts, Zen Philosopher

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