Well, if Wilson was anything like the other nutjobs who buy off on this site, the world is better off without him.
I was fortunate enough to meet Robert Anton Wilson in the early 1970s, when he was not yet famous and still had time to correspond at length. Later my letters to him were answered by his wife, Arlen - an equal talent who may have been the source of many of his ideas.
When RAW couldn't sell his articles, he would often donate them to the alternative press just to get his ideas into circulation. He had to put his family on welfare in order to write the Illuminatus trilogy. I agree with his analysis of what happened to the Sixties counterculture: it was simply starved out!
Robert Anton Wilson introduced me to the concepts of Guaranteed Livable Income (also known as Basic Income Guarantee) and "education for leisure" back in the 1970s. At the time I argued hotly against it the idea of people getting money for not working, but by now the need for a GLI/BIG seems self-evident.
Wilson and Arlen will be missed by many, but their deeds and goodwill will live after them.
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