Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I dont know what anything is; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. — Robert Anton Wilson, The Historical Illuminatus Robert Anton Wilson was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian, and self-described agnostic mystic. Wilson described his work as an attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models 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. In a 2003 interview with High Times magazine, Wilson described himself as model-agnostic which he said consists of never regarding any model or map of the universe with total 100% belief or total 100% denial. Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... On January 6, 2007, Wilson wrote on his blog that according to several medical authorities, he would likely only have between two days and two months left to live. He closed this message with I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I dont see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. He died peacefully five days later.
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