RAW for the 21st c.

Pops at 2 Hour Lunch mentioned author Robert Anton Wilson yesterday, within the context of the 2004 presidential campaign. (As usual, I have some literary catching up to do after reading Pops.) Wilson does have a cheerful way of rephrasing that old canard - you're not paranoid; they're not so much out to get you as to grasp in their fists much more than you. Or anybody else, for that matter. So when The Powers That Be actually control every facet of your life, down to your insurance, your access to medical treatment and your drinking water, your power over your own body, life and health, it's nothing personal. See? Reassuring. Told you. Now you know why Anthony and I sometimes wish he'd stick to fiction.

Comments

[Anthony]

Does anyone honestly believe that "The Conspiracy" would just sit by and let someone like RAW blab all their secrets without so-much a men-in-black visitation unless, in fact, RAW was not a tool of "the Con" already? Think about it: for decades RAW has publically flaunted all the Con's secrets and yet, nothing seems to have happened to him. He spews out endless reams of jeremiads about how sinisterly pervasive the Con is, and yet, to this day he seems to have escaped any malign interference himself! Coincidence? I think not!!
So, the Big Q is not what aspects of the Con control our lives, but what aspects of the Con control RAW!
Some nominations:
1) The Illuminati: frankly, at this stage of the game the Illuminati are about as dangerous as a Kenny G CD and about as interesting. They're a subsidiary of Starbucks these days and spend most of their time thinking up brand new coffee drinks. Chance of RAW control 55% (for RAW; CC a 100% lock)!
4) James Cameron and Steven Spielberg: Oh yeah, get real you say: a family-friendly ET kind of guy and a demanding, bad-tempered action auteur dominating RAW and his followers! Well, let's look at the evidence shall we? Close Encounters (government is hiding aliens); Terminator 1/2: (government is complicit in future destruction of human race); ET (need I say more?); The Abyss (aliens can control the very water we drink); 1941 (history is a joke disguised as an even bigger joke); True Lies (Arnold can save the world...); Hook (even Dustin Hoffman can be had); Titanic (Leo Decaprio a star--need anyone wonder further?) Chance of control > 75%
5) Pam's new Pomeranian: So obvious and so brilliant. Out of nowhere an otherwise eminently sensible woman I have known for a long time "adopts" a terminally and suspiciously cute dog-object and suddenly her otherwise sensible blog becomes Puppy-Fancier Central, replete with semi-cutting references to RAW. Look no further everybody--there here, there here, and you're next!! Chance of control > 100% and too cute to be stopped by any known natural means!!

[pam]

This is your most disturbing comment yet. You will seriously scare people away from my harmless little blog. Was it pre-caffeine of you, or did you really just accuse my puppy of leading a world-wide conspiracy? Then again, it has happened before. Lest we forget, there was your belief that Wishbone, the J.R. Terrier from PBS, was responsible for the S & L scandal.

[Anthony]

I hate it when Con-inspired disinformation campaigns get it wrong so blatantly. For the record, I never accused Wishbone of having ANY hand (paw?) in the SL scandals. That was (if anyone actually READ my posting) Eddie from Frasier, a sinister (though unbelievably cute) financial manipulator if ever there was one.
However, I do have proof that Wishbone has dealings with the IMF and the Trilateralists that could bear some necessary scrutiny.

[pam]

Speaking of Wishbone (she said, hastily changing the subject), it's almost time to unleash the "Wishbone/X-Files" crossover episode. How's the end coming? I don't think we should start the "Friends/Star Trek TNG" thing until the other is finished.