T leaves a lot to be desired. After all, perception and sentiment are just as effective, if not more so, in influencing people s actions. Politicians know this. Media conglomerates know this.
Objective reality is a non-starter, and boring to boot.
Reviewed here are three books that, by example, demonstrate the correct way to think in a world anchored not by staid facts and irrelevant ideas but by desire, wish-fullfilment and cathartic paranoia. Once you become accustomed to the eminently functional thought patterns of the so-called crazies and solipsists, you ll begin to realize that the laws of logic are just that strictures imposed by the white male hierarchy to suppress creativity and realization of that greater Truth, the invariable connectedness of everything to everything. Trilogy , by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, is recommended as the definitive primer in eristic logic, a triumphant, revelatory work of fiction , revealing the manifold layers of conspiracy and counter-conspiracy that are the only plausible explanation for the confusion and dysfunction of the modern world. That the trilogy s frenetic plot makes absolutely no sense is a reflection of the primal, chaotic state of the cosmos, and no fault of the authors. The diagram neatly connects the Black Panthers, Bank of America, and the Mafia to the Shriners, Playboy, the American Anarchist Society, and Yippies .