The Moral Majority Is Trying to Get Government Off Our Backs

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Reagan promised to get government off our backs, but the moral majority is trying to get it on to our fronts. There are laws about what you can do with your sexual partner alone in the privacy of your bedroom. They keep working at it, creating more and more laws until everything that compulsory is forbidden. And still, this is a normal primate behavior. So it's all territorial. The wild primates mark their territories with excretions. It might be interesting some day to sit down quietly, meditatively, and try to figure out how many laws you violated in your life.

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." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option