"One faith-healer told the present author, "Most people die of adrenaline poisoning." In our terminology, most people have too much first-circuit anx… - Robert Anton Wilson

"One faith-healer told the present author, "Most people die of adrenaline poisoning." In our terminology, most people have too much first-circuit anxiety and second-circuit territorial pugnacity for their own good. They are literally struggling for survival, as no other animals do, despite Darwin. Most animals simply play most of the time, solve problems of survival when they have to, or die of not solving the problems; only humans are conscious of struggling, and hence worried and depressed about the Game of Life."

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About Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson (18 January 1932 – 11 January 2007) was an American novelist, essayist, absurdist philosopher, futurist, and guerilla ontologist, most famous for his satirical work (with Robert Shea), The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

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Alternative Names: Robert Edward Wilson Robert A. Wilson

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