The US Government - Schizophrenic with Homicidal Tendencies (RA Wilson)

[toddaa]

"What would you think of a man who not only kept an arsenal in his home, but was collecting at enormous financial sacrifice a second arsenal to protect the first one? What would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him? What if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children? What if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned him? And he took another child who obeyed him faithfully and armed that child and sent it out into the world to attack neighbors? What would you say about a man who introduces poisons into the internal water he drinks and the air he breathes? What if this man not only is feuding with the people on his block but involves himself in the quarrels of others in distant parts of the city and even in the suburbs? Such a man would clearly be a paranoid internal schizophrenic... with homicidal tendencies." - R.A. Wilson


I came across this recently and thought it was particularly useful in explaining our collective delusion of being the biggest, baddest, mofos on the planet.

[daninthemoon]

1. Don't forget, the financial sacrifice this guy is making is not his

own, it's money he has borrowed against his children's lives.

[Ian David]

2. We don't need education or an environment. The Rapture is coming.

It still sucks for those of us who will be "Left Behind."

[starroute]

3. Is that Robert Anton Wilson?

I kind of figure it has to be. He has a way of cutting through the crap to the essence of a situation.

[undergroundpanther]

4. it's our corporate governments mind

[toddaa]

5. Yep

Mr. "Reality is what you can get away with" himself.