Saturday with Robert Anton Wilson

Longer ago than is probably wise to admit Robert Anton Wilson’s ideas crashed into my life over a Holiday season. He was a needed contribution to my thinking, and an example of someone from the same featureless backwaters of Brooklyn who did something with his life while also being weird as hell. Everything in myContinue reading “Saturday with Robert Anton Wilson”

Tactics of Rulership: Tension, Mobility, and Compensation

Due to certain quirks in our awareness, we spend most of our lives in physically uncomfortable positions. Hunched over computers, twisted up in couches, and standing on public transit, we create networks of habitual tension due to a lack of awareness of our physiology. The answer to this process of unconscious habitual tension is toContinue reading “Tactics of Rulership: Tension, Mobility, and Compensation”

Tactics of Rulership: Introduction

Applying the Gift of Set effectively involves learning to see non-obvious solutions. It also means, to some extent, learning to see why the obvious solutions are traps in their own right. One of the most apparent areas for this is the tactics people use for what they consider “success.”  Ask someone the one thing thatContinue reading “Tactics of Rulership: Introduction”

The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Further Reading

Part III: The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell  The Structural Study of Myth by Claude Levi-Strauss  The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung  Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin  The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E. D. Hirsch  Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson Continue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Further Reading”