The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science

"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

Author: Robert Anton Wilson
Publisher: Hilaritas Press, LLC.
Published: 04/23/2020
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781734473544

About the Author
Wilson, Robert Anton: - 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.