KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money

by J.M.R. Higgs

As Wilson saw it, we all need models in order to deal with the world around us. We need models that fit the existing facts and which have some ability to predict what will happen next. This is what all the best ideologies, religions and philosophies offer us. What we shouldn't do is confuse these models with the real world, for the map is not the territory and the menu is not the meal. Once this is understood, the need to fight to protect the 'truth' of the model falls away and we are free to use different and contradictory models as circumstances change. So it was that as Robert Anton Wilson's consciousness kept producing strange and dazzling feats of awareness, Wilson comforted himself with the idea that a giant invisible European rabbit spirit was currently intent on trying to tell him something, and by and large he felt much better about the whole thing.