{"id":568,"date":"2002-06-08T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2002-06-08T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/08\/schrodingers-cat-trilogy\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:26:53","slug":"schrodingers-cat-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/08\/schrodingers-cat-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Schrodinger&#8217;s Cat Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conspiracy theories amuse me to no end. I think they&#8217;re silly, fairly ridiculous, and don&#8217;t believe a single one of them, though I do enjoy playing with them from time to time. However, a couple years ago I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0440539811\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Illuminatus Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea\">The Illuminatus Trilogy<\/a>, and by the time I was done, I was almost ready to believe <em>every<\/em> conspiracy theory out there. Great, bizarre, wacky stuff.<\/p>\n<p>An online conversation got me remembering that, and so I picked up the companion volume, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0440500702\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson\">The Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat Trilogy<\/a>. While not quite as good as <em>Illuminatus<\/em>, it was still much of the same style &#8212; bizarre, confusing, and entertaining, with a wonderfully twisted sense of humor throughout.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that would worry me would be if Wilson actually took any of this stuff seriously&#8230;which I&#8217;m thinking he just might, given the results when I do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books&amp;field-author=Robert%20Anton%20Wilson\/002-7115760-8356010\" title=\"R. A. Wilson on Amazon\">search on his name<\/a> on Amazon. I&#8217;m not quite sure what to think of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not quite as good as Illuminatus, it was still much of the same style &#8212; bizarre, confusing, and entertaining, with a wonderfully twisted sense of humor throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036],"tags":[2195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}