Guerrilla ontology is a practice inspired by guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare and refers to conflicts in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and...

, described by Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...

 as an ontological method of dealing with people with extremely fixed worldviews.

In The Illuminati Papers

The Illuminati Papers

The Illuminati Papers is a collection of essays and other works by Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1980 . The book expands upon characters and themes from his earlier The Illuminatus! Trilogy and most of the essays are written from the point of view of the characters in Illuminatus! Topics...

, Wilson defines guerrilla ontology as: "The basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'" The use of guerrilla ontology is to present through mainstream media conflicting worldviews to dissuade the populace from ascertaining underlying realities.