The New Inquisition dares to confront the disease of our time; Fundamentalist Materialism. Wilson explains, "I am opposing the Fundamentalism, not the Materialism. This book...is deliberately shocking because I do not want its ideas to seem any less stark or startling than they are".
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In many ways we have made little progress from the days of the Holy Spanish Inquisition; on TV, Radio, Magazines, Newspapers, from the halls of Academia and the halls of religous institutions to the halls of Congress, we are showered, bombarded and pressured to THINK a certain way...and woe to those who preach heresy. Wilson's book strikes me as a plea for free, and sane, thought. Wilson will point out with devastating clarity how often we are straight-jacketed into reality tunnels both of our own making and those imposed on us by EXPERTS. (digression here...if you enjoyed this book and Wilson's shots at the "experts", watch the film FAKE by Orson Welles. Great fun.) Wilson challenges us to be Creative Agnostics, to not be so quick to dogmatize, to be a little less constipated about how Universe works and acts. Warning though...if you are a layman, as I am, to scientific and philosophical terminology, keep a good dictionary of those terms handy! Is well worth it, though, fellow laymen! Wilson is the Groucho Marx of Academia; if he is obnoxious, it's only the more to point how insultingly pretentious the EXPERTS are that he gives the rasberry to. And ohhhhhh what a relief it is... Buy this book, keep some dictionaries handy, bowl of popcorn, and for God's sake watch the skies...
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Like all of Wilson's books, The New Inquisition makes one think, and look at the world in a completely new way. Wilson is one of the most brilliant and open minded writers around, and he is funny to boot. Both fundamentalist theists and fundamentalist atheists ought to avail themselves of his books. "The New Inquisition" basically sends the fundamentalist materialists (such as Richard Dawkins, et al) a big and well-deserved thump upside the head. As biologist J.B.S. Haldane remarked, "The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we CAN imagine". Or Spinoza's remark that the human mind is to the mind of God as a dog is to the Dog Star. Anyone, scientist or theologian, who thinks they can explain anything away uncritically is dead wrong. We live in an era where materialistic science is accepted as uncritically as the Catholic Church was in the Middle Ages. If more people read "The New Inquisition" (and other of Wilson's books) we might start to change that and think for ourselves. Now we know who the little boy who shouted out "The Emperor doesn't have any clothes on!" was - it was Robert Anton Wilson, and thank God (or thank Dog) he's still pointing out naked emperors for us to see.
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I actually sought this book out after reading an unfavorable review by a notable skeptical organization(wink, wink, science cops:) I think it was an ultimately fair critique of the modern skeptical movement and asked some really big questions on why skepticism has come to mean automatically dismissive. Dean Radin has a book called "The Conscious Universe" which dissects the motives of skeptics in more detail(as well as offering one of the most convincing arguments for psychic phenomena of the 20th century). Bottom line: Read this if you want to see how science has been tainted with politics. If your an irrational skeptic, don't read it unless you like having a nervous fit.
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- The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (25th Anniversary Edition) by Fritjof Capra on page 108, page 178, and page 190
- Physics As Metaphor by Roger S. Jones on page 1, page 12, and page 223
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- TSOG: The Thing That Ate The Constitution by Robert Anton Wilson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Leaving The Fold: Testimonies Of Former Fundamentalists by Edward T. Babinski in Front Matter, and page 31
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