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Jack Spirko · 138w
"Do You See the Fnords?" Let's start with what a fnord is. While best known from a book called the "Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, it actually originated in a work calle...
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Thank you for this explanation. When I heard you explain it on the air I somehow thought you were saying the people in the story were seeing fjords (cliffs) for the first time when they were there all along. The seeing the fnord is not an analogy, its an accurate word for seeing the truth behind the lies.
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Jack Spirko · 138w
Correct. Everyone should read Illuminatus, it is not an easy read and it is trippy as fuck, in fact some of the chapters are called things like "the third trip" and they mean that kind of trip.