buy Schrodingers Cat Trilology

A good first Robert Anton Wilson book to read. Funny yet mind-bending.

an excerpt I'd quoted before...

Getting even was the basis of many PriMate semantic (General Semantics) confusions, such as "expropriating the expropriators", "an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty", "they did it to me so I can do it to them", and in general, the emotional mathematics of "one plus one equals zero". The primates were so dumb they didn't realize that one plus one equals two, and one murder plus one murder equals two murders, one crime plus one crime equals two crimes, etc. They did not understand causality at all. The few primates who did understand causality slightly called it [KarMa]. They said all sorts of foolish things about it. They didn't even know enough mathematics to describe quantum probability waves. They said, in crude hominid metaphor, and bad karma let to "bad vibes".

The tribal stage endured 100,000 years, as it had before. Then, suddenly, when environmental conditions were right, genetic programs reasserted themselves. The hive instinct reappeared in the primates. Cities appeared, sin and guilt were reinvented, technoloogy advanced. Nuclear energy was rediscovered, and misused again. The tribal age endured 12,000,000 years the next time. Then, suddenly, when environmental conditions were right... The six-legged Terran majority knew little and cared less about all this PriMate actiivty. They had solved all their social problems three billion years earlier, and saw no need to change. They followed their own DNA cycles, just as monotonously as the primates followed primate cycles.

User Options Recent Changes Help Page