Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution

by Robert Anton Wilson

What is happening in the United States to human freedom and to the Constitution that was written to secure and protect people's liberty? Why does the US have a drug Tsar who proudly destroys millions... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561841692
• ISBN13: 9781561841691
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: New Falcon Publications
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Good news, bad news

I'm a huge RA. Wilson fan and recommend all of his books. This is a hard book to read however for anybody who believes they "are" free in the modern United States. RAW seriously asks the questions any intelligent individual should be concerned with about matters of civil liberties, the nature of government, and with his usual wit and compassionate humour. A must for anybody interested in freedom, liberty, and increasing their intelligence. Nobody can accuse RAW of being naive, uninformed, or blindly optimistic.

Loved it!

While there is no overall theme to this work, unlike others of RAW's works, it still is great. Mostly put together from the "Thoughts of the Month" from Wilson's web site and expansions on those, it strikes home at the problems of the government intruding in our lives.

Required Reading for all those who wish to be Sane

This I must say is the perfect book if you don't know Robert Anton Wilson. This was my first reading of RAW and I'm already adding everything the man ever wrote to my wish list. From citing great minds and not so great minds through the ages to his own neologisms involving Bush as Gush and Gore as Bore this book oozes humor and truth. SAVE THE EARTH, IT'S THE ONLY PLANET WITH CHOCOLATE!Buy it. It's an instant top-10 for me and I have read a LOT of books.

Substantive Mind Candy

TSOG is political satire at its most entertaining high - something far beyond your wildest dreams. Capable of evoking hysterical laughter and revelation all in the same quip, Wilson delivers punch after punch of thoughtful thrills. TSOG is rapturous, raucously humorous, and pleasurably mind-boggling. What other book takes you from the exciting works of luminaries such as Ezra Pound and Alfred Korzybski to side splitting sections on unidentified flying virgins and why Hannibal Lecter would be suitable as President!Wilson's mind is razor sharp but as thrillingly imaginative as ever with delightful intellectual surprises around every corner. The reader marvels at Wilson's uncanny ability to interconnect the Church with the U.S. government with the Mafia and sundry other human folly.The author openly bashes the hypocrisies of "faith-based organizations" and the many dangers of orthodoxy.A lively account of a trip to Cannabis Cup leads to various wonderful uses of the "f" word.Bungling idiots in office are skewered like never before in parodies that challenge the best of Hollywood's comedy writers to hyperkinetic runs for the money.Mainly the thrill of reading Wilson is the uniquely acerbic but always light-hearted and comedic tone which reminds you what is so important about freedom. In the end you may not have created a rupture in the power structures but your mind has roamed through dimensions that are constantly considered off-limits.Wilson shows all of us that thought processes are not heretical -that we are free to use our minds as we see fit. In this spirit exists the only real hope that while living in an increasingly more restrictive society we, the people - and not our Tsarist government - will ultimately be victorious.

what a wonderful book

Bob keeps getting better and better. Loosely following the pattern of Dante's Commedia, Bob travels from Amsterdam to the hellish inner workings of our government, with some wonderful tidbits about Faulkner and Ezra and bears, oh my!