Everything Is Under Control by Robert Anton Wilson

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I'm rereading Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-Ups by Robert Anton Wilson.

I'd think, hopefully, anyone with an interest in conspiracy theories has at least a passing familiarity with Robert Anton Wilson.

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea is perhaps the greatest conspiracy novel of all time. It's up there with Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and the work of Thomas Pynchon, at least, and I'd rank it lightyears above Dan Brown's Robert Langdon novels, fun as they are.

Although RAW has handled the topic of conspiracies satirically, he didn't dismiss them categorically, and he wrote about Propaganda Due and Roberto Calvi with sincerity. He introduced me to The Yankee and Cowboy War by Carl Oglesby and Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiglye, among other books everyone with an interest in conspiracy theories should know about.

Anyway.

I'm considering starting a monthly discussion group online that goes through a different entry in Robert Anton Wilson's encyclopedia of conspiracies, Everything is Under Control, one month at a time.

I'm rereading the book in preparation of the possible discussion group. It's fun because he wrote it in 1998 and supplemented each entry with hyperlinks. Most of them are dead now so I've been looking them up in The Wayback Machine courtesy of Archive.org.

Here's one exploring the possibility that Fidel Castro was a mole for the CIA.

So, yeah. This book is a lot of fun. You can find the whole thing on Archive if you want to check it out.