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Title: TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1-56184-169-2 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too little RAW content
Comment: I hate to pan a R.A.W. book, but this is, by far, his weakest effort. Some of it reprints material from 'Trajectories', even more of it is material from his website . The original material has been bulked up by silly full-page illustrations that add very little to the book, and even more pages are spent on quotes, many of them from Ezra Pound, so that the book should almost be credited as "Edited by" R.A.W. instead of authored. Wilson doesn't put a lot of effort into maintaining his "Tsarist-Occupied Government" argument beyond the short introductory essay (which, itself, is Wilson at his conspiracy-theory best), so the title of the book is a little misleading; this is more like a sequel to _Coincidence: A Head Trip_, filled with much shorter writings on Wilson's familiar themes; Satanic Panics, religion, uncertainty, drugs, UFOs and archetypes.
The last ten pages are a preview of his next book to be published, _Tale of the Tribe_, advertised as being about the Internet (by which I assume New Falcon means the World Wide Web). Given that so much of _TSOG_ looks like an amateur website captured on paper, one can hope that a book on contributions to cyberspace models by Rennaisance thinkers will work out better.
It seems to me that the state of the U.S. gov't needs to be critiqued in the way that Robert Anton Wilson does. It's unfortunate that, as the need grows, his power to voice that critique seems to be failing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Substantive Mind Candy
Comment: TSOG is political satire at its most entertaining high - something far beyond your wildest dreams. Capable of evoking hysterical laughter and revelation all in the same quip, Wilson delivers punch after punch of thoughtful thrills. TSOG is rapturous, raucously humorous, and pleasurably mind-boggling. What other book takes you from the exciting works of luminaries such as Ezra Pound and Alfred Korzybski to side splitting sections on unidentified flying virgins and why Hannibal Lecter would be suitable as President!
Wilson's mind is razor sharp but as thrillingly imaginative as ever with delightful intellectual surprises around every corner. The reader marvels at Wilson's uncanny ability to interconnect the Church with the U.S. government with the Mafia and sundry other human folly.
The author openly bashes the hypocrisies of "faith-based organizations" and the many dangers of orthodoxy.
A lively account of a trip to Cannabis Cup leads to various wonderful uses of the "f" word.
Bungling idiots in office are skewered like never before in parodies that challenge the best of Hollywood's comedy writers to hyperkinetic runs for the money.
Mainly the thrill of reading Wilson is the uniquely acerbic but always light-hearted and comedic tone which reminds you what is so important about freedom. In the end you may not have created a rupture in the power structures but your mind has roamed through dimensions that are constantly considered off-limits.
Wilson shows all of us that thought processes are not heretical -that we are free to use our minds as we see fit. In this spirit exists the only real hope that while living in an increasingly more restrictive society we, the people - and not our Tsarist government - will ultimately be victorious.
Rating: 5
Summary: what a wonderful book
Comment: Bob keeps getting better and better. Loosely following the pattern of Dante's Commedia, Bob travels from Amsterdam to the hellish inner workings of our government, with some wonderful tidbits about Faulkner and Ezra and bears, oh my!
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Title: New Inquisition by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561840025 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561840718 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1564559513 Publisher: Sounds True Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Sex, Drugs & Magick by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561840017 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Tale of the Tribe by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561841471 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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