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" Nonetheless, I myself sometimes sense a Strange Loop in such polemics, because when I consider the amount of fakery, blundering, incompetence and inadequate controls that are alleged in such critiques, I start wondering about how much of that sort of thing may go on in other areas of research, and my agnosticism accelerates to a point where I even wonder about the Creationists' case against evolution . . . I only pull myself back to comfortable common sense again when I realize that, continuing that way, I will soon be wondering if everybody I have ever met might be a robot programmed to behave as a human, or if some of my own science-fiction plots might be real . . . No: I stand firm in second-plateau skepticism, most of the time. Skepticism of nth degree is an exhilarating place to visit (for a novelist) but I do not want to live there. "
― Robert Anton Wilson , The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science
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" Colin Wilson, Criminal History of Mankind, op. cit.: Wilson presents a theory of the Violent Male, backed up by criminological and historical data from the past 3000 years, and some current anthropological data on our earlier ancestors. He claims the Violent Male basically acts like Van Vogt's Right Man: he can never admit he might be wrong about anything. His ego definition, as it were, demands that he is always Right, nearly everybody else is always Wrong, and he must "punish" them for their Wrongness. He despises the "softness" of "emotions" and thinks most people are fools. As such, he sounds like the Authoritarian Personality described by such psychologists as Fromm and Adorno; what makes him Violent is a particular savage intensity of what I have called modeltheism. The Right Man, in addition to the above traits, has a basically paranoid attitude toward people: he thinks they are all rotten; they have all cheated him; they are always cheating; they are sneaks; they are liars; they are, in fact, rotten bastards. He is going to be the rottenest bastard of all to get back at them. "
― Robert Anton Wilson , The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science
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" I think most of us have felt that way, if only briefly, in moments of acute grief, bitterness and despair. Although we may not know the jargon of physics, we remain sane because we sense vaguely that such a model does not include all data; we cheer up, eventually, and notice the good things about people again; we become optimistic, again, to some degree, and make an effort to be agreeable and friendly: we leave the Anger Model behind, and wonder how we could have been so self-centered and self-pitying to have thought that way at all, even for a few moments. "
― Robert Anton Wilson , The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science