Beyond Chaos and Beyond Quotes

“I've never been afraid of the American Nazi Party, on the grounds that anybody dumb enough to pick a name like that is not a serious threat. Any real fascist movement that's a threat, that's serious and really endangers us, would call itself the Red, White, and Blue Christian American Party, or something like that. They wouldn't be dumb enough to call themselves Nazis.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II

“I'm very interested in Marxist theory. I disagree with it, but I keep thinking about it, because some Marxist theory does seem to work.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II

“And that reminded me--as everything in the universe does--of Finnegans Wake. Now, I'm sure in an educated audience like this, you're all thoroughly familiar with Finnegans Wake, and I don't have to explain its deep structure or its polylinguistic meanings.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II

“In another dimension, the three most popular social ideas of Indust-reality--democracy, socialism, and anarchism--have a family resemblance, despite their differences. All represent what Arlen Riley Wilson has called "Stone Age Backlash." That is, as Imperialism spread, more Stone Age "Partnership Societies" were discovered and they set the intelligentsia to thinking ferociously, as the French say. Democracy, socialism and anarchy all represent various persons' ideas of how to re-create Partnership Society within the context of an expanding technological world. This explains the various attempts to blend them: Democratic Socialism; Mutualist Anarchism; Libertarian (anti-State) Marxist heresies, etc.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II

“It needs to be understood that--as Reich points out--Fascism is not a 20th Century invention. With the institution of slavery, the glorification of conquest and the subjugation of women, the Fascist or Dominator State already appears in history. All the early agricultural/monarchist systems contained the full body of Fascist theory and practice; Hitler and Mussolini merely revived this system after it had appeared to be in eclipse due to industrialism and democracy.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II

“I don't know who first said, "Science fiction is the mythology of our time." An increasing number of occultists are realizing this and are incorporating science fiction into their rituals.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II

“interregnum,”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II

“Confucius (as the barbarians call him) also taught that, “When the government is honest, the people will learn honesty by example; when the government is crooked, the people will learn to be thieves also.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II

“My basic idea is from Aleister Crowley: “We place no reliance / On Virgin or Pigeon; / Our method is Science, / Our aim is Religion.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. II