“Gwendal Uguen has created this terrific mindmap about Discordianism, and has kindly given us permission to run it on Boing Boing. Click it for full-size. Discordianism is a religion founded in the late 20th Century by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, and it featured prominently in RAW’s books.”
“If Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea had not written the Illuminatus! trilogy, there might still be a Church of the SubGenius, but we probably wouldn’t get it.
“All SubGeniuses, Dr. Philo Drummond and myself in particular, owe Pope Bob big time, and we’ve never made any bones about that. He and Shea gave us the broad view of conspiracy theories that is required for any understanding of what we call The Conspiracy. RAW’s seemingly countless other books also served to remind us that while we are indeed crazy, the so-called “normal” people are even crazier…”
"More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. The assassinations, you see, establish the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason — or are manipulated into reasoning — that the entire population must have its freedom restricted in order to protect the leaders. The people agree that they themselves can’t be trusted."
― Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, The Eye in the Pyramid, 1975.
(Source: Boing Boing)
Winona Ryder in The Dilemma.
Bella Heathcote
Emma Stone | “The Amazing Spider-Man” Cancun Press Conference (2012)
Kirsten Dunst photographed by Simon Lekias for BlackBook, December 2010/January 2011
