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Right Where You Are Sitting Now

Right Where You Are Sitting Now

Right Where You Are Sitting Now, fully titled Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati, is a 1982 book of philosophical writings written by Robert Anton Wilson. Dedicated to William S. Burroughs and Philip K. Dick, this work covers Deadly Nightshade, The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon, The Universe Contains a Maybe, The Junkyard Dog, Is God a Dope? Or Just Plain Clumsy, Have Fun with Your New Head, and many other writings. The 1992 edition contains a new introduction by Timothy Leary.


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“We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.”

Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Pub., 1993. p. 144. http://books.google.com/books?id=ee8W8jQIQBQC&pg=PA144
Context: We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. The government has been paying farmers not to grow food for fifty years--while millions starve. Labor unions, business and government conspire to hold back the Microprocessor Revolution--because none of them know how to deal with the massive unemployment it will cause. (Fuller's books could tell them.) The utilities advertise continually that "solar power is at least forty years in the future" when my friend Karl Hess, and hundreds of others, already live in largely solar-powered houses. These propaganda advertisements are just a delaying action, because the utilities still haven't figured out how to put a meter between us and the sun.

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