The Failure of the Police State in the Age of Technology

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The idea of advantaging some by disadvantaging others is always resisted by the ones who are going to be disadvantaged. Fuller proposes in a mathematical way the only system that will work is one that's designed to advantage everybody without this advantaging anybody. I want to but I don't know what happened to Detroit this week I've been busy working on a novel set and the Naples in the 18th century and I don't I've been reading the news papers. Oh well that's just an example of the general lack of coordination and intelligent planning in handling our technologyDetroit up until the mid 1930s there was tremendous competition to build a better car then in the 1930s somebody discovered that you don't

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