"to live within the tethers of desire is---again & again---to be shocked at how far they have come loose from reason..."
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
PHILIP K. DICK b. DECEMBER 16 1928
"Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups…So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."
- from "How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)
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