The first thing to do is make people realize they don't have certitude, he says. The more things you're certain about the lessthinking you have to do and the less thinking you do the stupider you get. That's what's known in Zen Buddhism as grandmotherly kindness. There are those who think they can be certain of something even though nobody knows what the hell the hall is like.
Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: February 1982
[NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]
"The belief in certitude, I suspect, is a primate habit."
"One thing I want to make absolutely clear is that almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing. . . . because the government is the last place that important change is registered. And so if you're looking at the government you're looking at the past."
"Certitude only belongs to those people who own just one encyclopedia."
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