“Not every quote you read on the Internet is true.” – Abraham Lincoln
Various quote compilations online have this quote (or purported quote) from Robert Anton Wilson:
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Rasa, the guy who runs Hilaritas Press, has been asking RAW fans for the source of the quote, or even a quote that comes close. We have been searching our Kindles, poring through books, etc. So far, nothing.
There isn't even a consensus about whether RAW said it. Some RAW fans think it sounds familiar, some have doubts. One noted that the quote sites don't provide a citation, "which is partly the reason why these days Carl Jung is making statements about the law of attraction and Albert Einstein is spouting New Age nostrums."
Can anyone confirm the purported RAW quote, and provide a citation?
5 comments:
I think I said it, and maybe he picked it up. It's certainly an idea I got from him
while this sounds like something HCeline would spout out, the searches have not turned up anything and I remain in the skeptical camp as it simply does not ring a bell for me, nor sound particularly like a RAWism.
Here's another: "The left doesn't know how to grow the pie and the right doesn't know how to share it." - Ray Dalio
Did you get my comment on the alleged RAW comment yesterday? It's like Voltaire defending to the death. I wrote it as a summary of RAW's views (also mine)
I'm sorry, I got more behind than usual in publishing comments.
I went to a baseball game today (the Cleveland Guardians clinched a playoff) and that put me behind other stuff for hours. I usually check comments pretty often, but sometimes things happen....
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