tags: PKD
2002
February
- 2002 Feb 6
- Substance D
Dopamine and the nucleus accumbens.
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- Brain Worms (Existential Crisis #8)
This is just pitiful and pathetic.
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October
- 2002 Oct 21
- Synchronicity - Episode IV - A New Hope
The word, and all its attendant madness.
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2003
January
- 2003 Jan 17
- Imperfect God
The incredible communication gap between mortal and immortal.
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2006
July
- 2006 Jul 9
- consolation
I am trying to trace down the etymology of the word “consolation,” wondering if it is necessarily related to “isolation.” Alas, there are no clear answers, but are there ever?
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2008
March
- 2008 Mar 31
- escape from the black iron prison
Philip K Dick coined the phrase "black iron prison" to describe the illusory world that we are trapped in, forever living and reliving the first century anno domini. It is an instrument of the tyrannical Empire, initially identified with Rome but also identified with any wielder of imperialist power descended from Rome, culminating with the tyrannical elements that rule the United States. Dick identified Richard Nixon as the apex of this tyranny. (God only knows what Dick would've thought of George W Bush and Dick Cheney.)
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May
- 2008 May 16
- choose life/too long for a twitter blast
Even if you believe in the afterlife, that's no excuse to fuck things up in this life. Telling people that it'll be OK when we get to heaven is a cop-out. If you really cared, you'd make things better now
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2014
September
- 2014 Sep 24
- recursion
My heart is heavy in a certain way.
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2016
March
- 2016 Mar 25
- Friends and the Man in the High Castle
The lack of ethnic diversity in "Friends" despite being set in NYC makes more sense if you imagine that it's set in the same universe as "The Man in the High Castle"
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July
- 2016 Jul 8
- Don Quixote, Neo, and Tyler Durden
I've been binge-watching "The Expanse" and all the Don Quixote references have made me ponder how Cervantes basically anticipated a lot of the themes in "The Matrix" and in "Inception" and it's making my perception of "The Expanse" feel way more Philip K. Dick-ian than it might deserve.
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