"Bruce Sterling - Sneaking For Jesus 2001 (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sterling Bruce)

sold some 100,000 copies through Christian bookstores, and it

seems to
me to have tremendous crossover potential for hundreds of chuckling
cyberpunk cynics. To my eye it's a lot more mind-blowing than any of
Wilson's books.

The Robert Anton Wilson oeuvre is perenially in print in New Age
bookstores, and quite well known in the SF category racks. Therefore
the CATSCAN reader may already be aware that the so-called "Illuminati"
were a freethinking secret society purportedly founded in the 1770s,
who had something to do with Freemasonry and were opposed to
established Church authority in Europe.

So far, so good. It's not surprising that a with-it hipster dude like
R.A. Wilson would use the historical Illuminati as a head-trip
springboard to mock All Things Establishment. The far more surprising
matter is that some evangelical Christians, such as the Reverend Pat
Robertson, not only take the 217-year-old and extremely dead
Illuminati seriously, but are also currently dominating the social
agenda of the Republican Party. Reverend Robertson's latest
"non-fiction" tome, THE NEW WORLD ORDER, is chock-a-block with
straightfaced and utterly paranoiac Illuminati-under-the-bed
terrormongering. Robertson publicly credits the "satanic" Illuminati
conspiracy with direct authorship of the French Revolution and the
Bolshevik uprising, as well as sponsorship of the Trilateral Commission
and the comsymp "Eastern Establishment" generally. The good Reverend
also expresses the gravest possible reservations about the occult
Masonic insignia on the back of the one-dollar bill.

George Bush himself, best-known public advocate of a "New World Order,"
is cast under suspicion in Robertson's work as an Illuminati tool, and
yet Bush gave his accuser prime-time TV in his party's National
Convention. One can only marvel!

As a comparative reality-check, try and imagine Robert Anton Wilson
delivering his Hail Eris rap at a Democratic Party Convention (while
the audience, nodding on national television, listens in sober respect
and acts really glad to be clued-in). Odd enough for you? No

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imagine ontological anarchists re-writing the Democratic Party platform
on abortion, sexual behavior, and federal sponsorship of the arts.

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