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OrgyoftheMind: The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts
by Robert Anton Wilson
Each script correlates to each of the 8 circuits of human conscioussness
1. The biosurvival
Winner: “I will live forever or die trying.”
Loser: “I don’t know how to defend myself.”2. The emotional-territorial
Winner: “I am free; you…
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already.
Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.