Reality is what you can get away with

Name: Reality is what you can get away with
ISBN: 9781561840809

Robert Anton Wilson, Joseph Matheny · 1992

Here are images of our culture's absurdities, injustices, violence and desires, shot at you in a machine-gun-like assault on your senses and intellect. The result is hilarious, chilling and irrevocably mind-altering --- a left-brain/right-brain challenge... a consciousness-raising experience filled with laughter, rage --- and truth.

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malvoseniorJan 2020
Postmodernism is the recognition that all points of view are equally valid (or invalid). Policing "hate speech" and "protecting" society are modern concepts not postmodern ones.
I think if you read classic postmodern literature (think Gravity's Rainbow) you'll find a lot of speech that would be considered politically incorrect, possibly even hate speech. That was purposefully designed by the authors to help devalue and level the meaning of all speech as that's a core postmodern principal.
Reality Is What You Can Get Away With is another postmodern classic that explores some of these themes:
https://www.amazon.com/Reality-What-You-Can-Away/dp/15618408...
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forkrulassailDec 2013
Norway should read more Robert Anton Wilson, I'd recommend starting with 'Reality is what you can get away with'
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