Download ‘Robert Anton Wilson: Maybe Logic’

By on June 29, 2012 in OpenVideo, stories 42

Every Friday The Disinformation Company offers a different disinformation® documentary as a DRM-free download for the discounted price of $1.99. The sale price is available for one week only, Friday to Friday. All digital downloads are high quality MP4 video.

This week’s disinformation® OpenVideo is Robert Anton Wilson: Maybe Logic. This feature-length documentary is a hilarious and mind-bending journey into the multi-dimensional life of Robert Anton Wilson, one of the foundations of 20th Century Western counterculture and author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. It features video spanning 25 years and follows Mr.Wilson as he penetrates human illusions, exposing the mathematical probabilities and spooky synchronicities of the eight dimensions of his Universe.

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Featuring Tom Robbins, Douglas Rushkoff , R.U. Sirius, Rev. Ivan Stang and Paul Krassner and a sound track by Boards of Canada, Amon Tobin, Pullman, Tarentel, Animals on Wheels, Funki Porcini, and The Cinematic Orchestra.

Robert Anton Wilson: Maybe Logic for only $1.99. Also available at other leading locations where digital downloads and DVDs are sold … but not for $1.99!

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  • obsidianobelisk

    PRAISE BOB!

    • Lifobryan

      Praise Bob and pass the Fnord!!

  • Oneloveinus

    Maybe AWESOME.

  • Www Vampyre96669

    wow a ”FREE” download. At the “DISCOUNT PRICE OF $1.99 !!! GEE what a steal!

    • http://disinfo.com Majestic

      Um, where did you get the idea that it was free? Did you mistake the “DRM-free” part of the description for “zero cost” (DRM = Digital Rights Management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management )

    • Basement

       You mean a whole movie for the rip-off price of $1.99!!! That’s fucking bullshit, man! Like I should pay for anything in this world…  That’s my rent money!!

    • Sliteist
    • Better Red Than Dead

      @Www Vampyre96669 You are a fucking moron.

  • Daniel Díaz
    • Better Red Than Dead

      Thanks asshole.

  • Hazy Daisy

    I’ve learned a lot from RAW but the most serious problem with the guy is that you just can’t quote him. No creditable member of mainstream society today would take RAW seriously once they’ve dug a little deeper into who he was and his background. It’s not just his grotesque Bronx accent. It’s also that he worked for Playboy magazine. He’s a relic of a bygone era when freewheeling Boomers could get a paying gig just by turning up and gladhanding some empty suit desperate for the right talent. It’s kind of sad and touching that we can all get misty-eyed about RAW but the truth is that he was a lucky sumbitch who was in the right place at the right time, just like those other bums Timothy Leary and R.D. Laing, both of whom were inordinately fond of holding forth in their dotage, repeating themselves over and over as they stumbled over their words. 

    Any movement to a saner world that RAW, to his credit, pointed us all toward, has to get the women aboard first or it’s a no-go. Do any women read RAW? Find me one. 

    But going back to quoting RAW. The best that can happen is that you will quicken someone’s interest, they will plunk their money down and buy, say, Cosmic Trigger, and then what will happen? They will see straight away that it has been edited by a monkey. Then they will chuck it in the nearest bin and that will be that.

    • Nunzio X

      His boomer-ness, work at Playboy, Bronx accent, “good” luck, lack of interest on the part of women, and less than stellar editing of his books aside, the question is:

      Was there anything of value in what the guy thought, said, and / or wrote?

      If so, absorb what is useful and reject what is not.

      If I had to wait for a woman’s permission every time I want to shift mental polarities, I’d still be crawling around in diapers.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

        “If I had to wait for a woman’s permission every time I want to shift mental polarities, I’d still be crawling around in diapers.”

        Then stop talking to stupid women.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

        Also, why do you hate your mother?

    • William Mays, Jr.

      Do you mean to imply that his accent and the fact that he worked for Playboy magazine are in any way relevant to what he wrote/spoke about? I fail to see any connection whatsoever.

      I have met several women who have read some of his writings and found them as fascinating as I have. I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply by making a hasty generalization that no women read RAW. By the way, what do you think the ratio is of women you have asked to women in the world? A couple dozen or perhaps hundreds of women in close proximity to you does not at all make an accurate sample of the female population.

      Cosmic Trigger edited by a monkey? No. Domesticated primates, yes. Us mortals sometimes make mistakes, unlike you, your highness. I have learned a ton from Cosmic Trigger and other writings of RAW, which have literally changed my life in myriad ways. I am sure I am just one of many who can say that.

      I totally agree with Nunzio X’s comment and will not repeat it.

    • Lifobryan

      So a Bronx accent makes RAW unquotable? Why …? Are you writing your academic papers phonetically? 

      Lots of important historical figures had Bronx accents – didn’t you ever see The Last Temptation of Christ? All twelve apostles had Bronx accents. And so did all four Marx Brothers, all three Stooges, and each of the four Honeymooners. And if I’ve done my Discordian math correctly, that adds up to 23. 

      All ‘Sirius-ness’ aside, you do make one valid point. My friends & colleagues are intrigued by my often voiced enthusiasm for RAW until I mention the Leary connection … at which point, attitudes become unfortunately dismissive. However, that has so much more to do with cultural bias than with anyone’s personal experience with RAW’s work. I do wish I could have at least one conversation about RAW with a “non-initiate” in which I didn’t have to spend so much time re-contextualizing him away from Leary. Yes, the Leary association is obvious, primarily because of their personal relationship … but in terms of literary form, I think RAW is much closer to James Joyce or PKD. Or Crowley. 

      My first experience with RAW was not Cosmic Trigger – it was Masks of the Illuminati. And then The Earth Will Shake. Followed quickly by The Widow’s Son and Nature’s God. Together, those four books changed my life – they opened doors in my head that I never knew were there  - and I am forever grateful to him for those insights & experiences. Perhaps coming at him through his fiction first made all the difference. 

      I think RAW’s great value is not in academic quotability, but in the genuine consciousness-altering experience many people have when engaging his work. It’s tough to cite a prankster-shaman in a thesis footnote, I’ll grant you that. But when navigating the initiatory journey through Chapel Perilous, I’d rather have RAW with me than anyone bearing a mainstream stamp of approval. I find RAW to be a poet-shaman of the highest strangeness and an able travel guide through multiple realities. I’m happy & thankful for his bizarre sense of humor, his refreshing humility, and the works he left for us to read.

      • Hazy Daisy

        That’s very good, but you do make one invalid point: Leary couldn’t write.

        • Hazy Daisy

          Also, engagingly written.

    • Hagbard

      LMAO

      Seriously..you do not understand Robert Anton Wilson at ALL. Just stop

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

      I do. I’m a 26 year old woman in Texas. I’m also not a “geek”, or rather, not obviously so…I read the Illuminatus! Trilogy, too.

      Your name is confusing. It suggests that you’re female, yet another woman wouldn’t refer to women as “the women”…

      • Hazy Daisy

        I’m a man. I was called Hazy Daisy at school, possibly because of my tendency to daydream and aversion to sport. My point about women was simply a rhetorical one. Anyway, Lifobryan below has successfully demolished my ignorant rant, so it’s a little late for special pleading.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

          “Special pleading”?

          You said, and I quote: “Any movement to a saner world that RAW, to his credit, pointed us all toward, has to get the women aboard first or it’s a no-go. Do any women read RAW? Find me one.” (emphasis mine).

          I am one. I am a woman who reads RAW. Lifobryan did not say a single thing about women reading RAW.

          Do not ask questions if you do not want answers.

          • Lifobryan

            I have never seen a woman read RAW. Nor have I seen a man read RAW, because I am not in the habit of watching people read. (That would be kinda creepy). I would guess that people of both (and other) genders read RAW, but I can’t prove it empirically. I suspect Sirians read RAW (but I know nothing of their genders, and imagine them resembling either dogs or mermaids). 

            I have seen some DVDs of RAW seminars, and there are certainly people of both (and potentially other) genders happily present. I don’t think Hazy was implying anything sexist – quite the opposite, actually. However, I can see how his argument could be construed as such in the one narrow slice of assumption that women don’t read RAW. 

            For the record, I’ve never read Jane Austen, someone generally more popular with women than men …. and I would imagine that could be construed as sexist, although I don’t think it is. I just don’t have a taste for her work. I’m guessing that’s kinda-sorta-maybe-in-a-way-ish where Hazy was going with his RAW & women readers argument. I believe he was suggesting that if RAW were to be more culturally relevant in the mainstream, he’d have to be more appealing to women (who just might be a bit put off by the Playboy thing). Did I get that right, Hazy?

            Regardless, I think the three of us should go out for digital martinis and smoke something fun. 

          • Hazy Daisy

            You did. I’m ready for that martini now.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

            Regardless, his comment suggesting my reply was “special pleading”, when it was obviously in response to his non-obviously-rhetorical comment was rude. …This is what I’m like when I’m smoking. Sober? You wouldn’t like me sober.

          • Lifobryan

            Did you ever see “Time Bandits”? (the old Terry Gilliam movie from the 80s)? 

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

            Yes…?

          • Hazy Daisy

            I was saying that if I tried to justify my (ill-thought-out) statement about women after my argument had already been rubbished, THAT would be special pleading. I wasn’t saying your inquiry was an instance of special pleading.

          • Hazy Daisy

            Though I freely concede that my reply could have been less guarded …

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

            Ah…well. Then my apologies as well for also being on guard.

          • Internotional Times

             Quite right. We seem to be hearing from the readers of RAW and Leary and the like who seem to have missed their ‘call to wo/manity’. In fact Leary worked very hard to conceive of a way to keep the post-sixties bound together when gender politics became a schism. His use of language like ‘hir’ and ‘s/he’ predated Dale Spender’s critique and continues to offer a way forward out of what has since become a quagmire of the perennial intelligence-oblivating ‘gender loyalties’ and petty spats.
            It is a shame that the doyen of the feminist reactionary, Esther Vilar (‘The Manipulated Man’) never came to Leary’s Milbrook at the time. There was a perfect meeting of gender-generosity and forward-critique to be had there, rather than the regressive and, frankly, playground redividing of the ‘flower children’ into segregative and hostile gender groups.

            We all know we want to play freely. THIS above all is what these writers tried to equip our toolboxes with. Their time will come again because otherwise it’s the same old same old impasse and miserablism.

            A WO/MAN

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

            Huh. Why was that one flagged? Too gossipy? (They don’t even live in this state anymore.) I was just agreeing that, yeah, gender-issues are messed up all over the board…

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMPBMWIZQAHDI24VVZLK4UUBLE Sally Q

          How on earth do you expect to “get the women aboard” if you can’t even fathom that what seemed a “rhetorical” question to you was based on the assumption that women don’t even read Disinfo? There was nothing to indicate that your statement was rhetorical. You just assumed it was understood, because you thought this was a sausage party.

          That kind of bullshit is why many of the smarter women almost always end up sociopathic man-haters. Not me, of course…I just hate individual douche-bags.

        • Lifobryan

          I like the etymology of “Hazy Daisy” a lot! I’m with you bro ….

          • one ton pun

             my lasagna flys higher than some but not all of yours

    • Activate!

      Actually, most of the women, and men, that i associate with these days are either read up or readily receptive of RAW. I’m recommending Prometheus Rising left and right, only to hear back eager interest for more.  It could be a subcultural,  and not gender or generational thing, I’m around the burner crowd almost100% of the time, but age wise they run the gambit. As for gender, RAW it seems just has some catching up to do. The male dominated subcultures that he has circulated within are just now feverishly attracting feminine energy en masse, That may be evidence of paradigmshift, where the females go be where the children of the newage manifest.

    • Internotional Times

      Despite being a big fan of Wilson, Leary, Laing and others cut from the same period cloth (the post-sixties), I am not uncritical and think you’re making valid points that can be useful to anyone thinking they’d like to move the CONTENT of these people’s works into other areas like academia.
      Even when I first discovered their books as a kid, I was wondering about the terrible editing, the terrible design, the terrible typefaces and typos. But it was common amongst much of the books and other literature sold by and via ‘alternative press’ circuits and may have even been used as a signifier.

      In Wilson’s case, mis-stylings, misadventures and mistakes somehow come together in a perfect sub-legendary package. The student has to find her way to Wilson and once there should be intellihanced. Whether or not Wilson’s reader-demographic indicates properties of his readers or properties of himself is for debate but he certainly wasn’t one of the unreformed sexists of the ‘consciousness revolution’ for whom liberation meant little more than ‘more drugs and pussy’. Wilson was a serious scholar and the fact that he didn’t study or publish within academia says nothing about his research topics’ validity and everything about the limited possibilities for research in post-Sixties academia to date.
      This of course takes us back to Leary. And we all know how far academia got with allowing his research and the extent to which ‘Central Funding’ was prepared to go to stop him in the end.

      Nevertheless, if what you’re saying is there’s an element of ‘hoist by own petard’ in these and other thinkers’ public activity, that is almost incontrovertible. Wilson, of the three, probably had time for the notion of self-censorship if not for strategy but Leary belonged to the school of ‘Why can’t I just go nude down the highway?’.
      The answer of course is ‘You can, Tim…but just the once’ ;-)

  • Joolio

    *Sigh* No thanks- it’ll just make me cry again. I figured if there was anyone who would either find a way around the ‘death’ thing or who’d do recon from the other side it’d be him…hasn’t happened, and I miss him. Toujour, Fnord, toujour……;)

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  • Jrobillard2

     Am just a normal person who wants to take one day and stream Tallahasse Fl.for whatever we believe in and make them listen to  us. We are the people. Lets set a date. Freedom of speech is our right.Put your time where your heart is.How many will show up.Second week of Sept..People that yell the hardest get heard. Come on .One day.  We will make he News!!!!We are not sickenly reality t.v.

  • D_Wilkins

    Paid the full whack for it a few years back. Worth every penny, cent, etc….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N7ALIJGK2R55DAGQ2DIOHB4ZCU Richard

    Wasn’t it RAW who said that all information should be free?