Robert Michael Johnson, who has contributed erudite pieces to a number of Hilaritas Press books (most recently Eric Wagner's new Straight Outta Dublin) has revived his his old Overweening Generalist blog, this time as a Substack newsletter.
There have been two newsletters so far, an introductory piece written for Maybe Day and then a new one this weekend, "How Robert Anton Wilson Read Nietzsche," inspired by Eric Wagner's recent Hilaritas podcast. Here's a bit of it:
More than a few times RAW said - no doubt ironically - that the paranoia in his books was from the feeling that the universe was out to kill him. However, he also seems to have become Adept at banishing paranoia and shifting to more exalted - especially humorous and psychedelic - states. He may have had some level of manic depression, suggestive from short statements he made about himself, but some of his letters also hint at very dark moods that occurred after highly productive creative periods. We aren’t sure. I’m not sure. Maybe he just got low when things - money issues - were bad, then they got better and so did he? He self-treated with cannabis, some psychedelics, and reading Nietzsche.
Michael says he plans to post one or two days a week.
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