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Wil Guilfoyle

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Science Fiction, Philosophy, Nonfiction

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Wil Guilfoyle is a writer, filmmaker, producer and publisher based in the Pacific Northwest. His fiction explores consciousness, free will, and what it means to be human in a world increasingly shaped by technology. His work has appeared on slowgoer.com and in independent publications.

He is the founder of SlowGoer Press, an independent imprint based in Washington state, which first published his essay, “The Unmarked Default: How Western Religion Wrote Dominator Hierarchy Into the Source Code of Reality.” The essay points out how patriarchy is an unnatural construct that is responsible for thousands of years of avoidable human suffering and the degradation of the biosphere.

He is the co-creator of the quarterly zine Modern Urban Goblinoid wi ...more

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“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.”
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