tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post3422207315807321676..comments2024-03-27T18:12:22.027-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: What happened to Robert Anton Wilson's lost plays?Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-24106287215576230392023-05-18T10:28:50.015-07:002023-05-18T10:28:50.015-07:00Bob said he wrote a play about Ezra Pound locked u...Bob said he wrote a play about Ezra Pound locked up called "The Caged Panther."Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-33384524654682484812023-05-18T09:48:51.502-07:002023-05-18T09:48:51.502-07:00I'm pretty sure I've seen him use the &quo...I'm pretty sure I've seen him use the "Anarcho-Technocrat" monicker elsewhere. It's obviously meant to be funny and I would not take it too literally, but I suspect that whatever serious point is lurking beneath it is related to Wilson's fondness for Buckminster Fuller (and maybe a nod to the original <a href="https://www.are.na/block/3217797" rel="nofollow">Technocracy Inc.</a>, which predates the modern use of the word).Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11710039914940121557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-28354832299455680212023-05-17T05:38:17.865-07:002023-05-17T05:38:17.865-07:00I might venture that the "technocrat" pa...I might venture that the "technocrat" part had a different ring in RAW's mind fifty years ago than in does to us nowadays. From Wikipedia:<br /><br />"The term technocracy was initially used to signify the application of the scientific method to solving social problems. In its most extreme form, technocracy is an entire government running as a technical or engineering problem and is mostly hypothetical. In more practical use, technocracy is any portion of a bureaucracy run by technologists. A government in which elected officials appoint experts and professionals to administer individual government functions, and recommend legislation, can be considered technocratic."<br /><br />Although I get the appeal of using the scientific method for Bob Wilson, I still do not see how the Reign of the Experts could fit with his preference for generalists.Spookahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804786740298960107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-74325210341267090532023-05-16T18:33:52.678-07:002023-05-16T18:33:52.678-07:00Yes, Chad, I had that same furrowed brow when I sa...Yes, Chad, I had that same furrowed brow when I saw "anarcho technocrat."Spin it as I may try... it always comes out unappetizing. Rasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352273977312470292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-48290594944744154102023-05-16T16:52:26.515-07:002023-05-16T16:52:26.515-07:00Anarcho technocrat = someone into both anarchy and...Anarcho technocrat = someone into both anarchy and technology, maybe. Anarchy, as RAW understood it, sounds different, more humanist, than the common conception of it as anything goes chaos. His exploration of the anarchy movement and its ideals gets very well explained in Prop's upcoming RAW bio.Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-3892070617885400652023-05-16T11:08:56.921-07:002023-05-16T11:08:56.921-07:00Can anyone take a stab at defining anarcho technoc...Can anyone take a stab at defining anarcho technocrat? That sounds horrible to me!Chad N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02276892620880033371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-41872375737896997692023-05-16T09:06:09.269-07:002023-05-16T09:06:09.269-07:00The University of Delaware has a manuscript for a ...The University of Delaware has a manuscript for a 1962 one act play called "Mother" in its special collections that is attributed to Robert A. Wilson, but was listed in their database as a Robert Anton Wilson title.<br /><br />Alas, I asked him if he wrote it and he said no, and that it was probably by Robert Alfred Wilson, which is how it's now catalogued.<br /><br />So just to complicate things, there's another Robert A. Wilson who was writing unpublished plays at the same time as RAW :)))Bobby Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03809136879430277243noreply@blogger.com