Brian Doherty (Cato Institute photo)
To my pleasant surprise, the New York Times runs a long obituary for Brian Doherty, libertarian chroniclers and RAW expert. And it mentions Illuminatus!
A couple of sentences from Trip Gabriel's piece:
"Mr. Doherty became a libertarian at the University of Florida in the late 1980s, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism. But he traced his political tendencies even earlier, to his reading, as a 12-year-old, of a science fiction trilogy, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus!
“ 'One of the specific purposes of that work, according to Wilson,' Mr. Doherty later wrote, 'was to do to the state what Voltaire did to the church — that is, reduce it to an object of contempt for all thoughtful people'.”
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