The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple,… (original 1975; udgave 1983)

This book is an excellent insight into the complete insanity of the lsd hippie counter culture area. I dont care what others may say! RAW( Robert Anton Wilson) is a complete genius, albeit misunderstood and misquoted , quite often. And ignored by academia because of "CIA on campus" aka #cointelpro #oppaperclip #patriotact). -ljh aka Tlacaelel X. ( )

Not sure why I bothered reading to the end. It was sort of fun. ( )

Amazing up to a point. I found Leviathan exhausting and tedious. It was like running a marathon and finding a steep hill at the end. I shaved off a star but my own inadequacies as a reader probably led to my final disappointment. May read it again in a few years to see if I change my opinion. Glad it's finally under the old belt though... ( )

Reading this with Trump in office... I guess it just reminds me that things were really nuts back when Nixon was in office, too! Scott Adams, the cartoonist for Dilbert, pointed out that Trump, well, I don't remember the words, but Trump is like a sorcerer. And then this nutcase shoots up Las Vegas. We're really living in a kind of nightmare. And that's what this book points out.

At the metaphysical level, I would say this book is rather nihilistic. I recently watched a video where Camille Paglia rants against Derrida & co. for being careerists yeah but also nihilists. She points out that the authentic heritage of the 1960s involves reconnecting with the body. Yeah it is interesting, the various strands of the 1960s and how they veer off target one way or the other. A background thread in this book advocates interplanetary colonization. Definitely one strand of the 1960s, like say Stewart Brand, goes off into techno-utopian fantasy land. Except to a large degree that's the nightmare we're living. Steve Jobs, for example.

Yeah postmodernism has a kind of veneer of the left but actually it is very reactionary. Thich Nhat Hanh vs Julius Evola. Worth careful study and analysis! ( )

Imagine if conspiracy theories were true. Not just some - all of them. This wonderfully insane book peels back the layers of conspiracy theories like the layers of an onion - and they just get stranger. A brain-expanding, head-spinning, stomach-churning adventure story. ( )