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@pkdinternational.bsky.social🧵 (4/4) Because understanding the condition is an important step towards feeling more informed, prepared and empowered.
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@pkdinternational.bsky.social🧵 (3/3) 📖 Read the full article: www.endpkd.ca/exercise-wit...
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@lostinmilbury.bsky.socialNext in my re-read of all Philip K Dick - Dr Bloodmoney
Or How We Got Along After The Bomb.
In a world wrecked by war, society struggles on.
Another cracking but complex #PKD novel about survival, hope & evil.
Also has a fab Afterword with Phil himself reflecting on the story 15 years later.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialI absolutely love this book!
It's been awhile since I've read Valis, but I highly recommend it.
Here's an audio version. ☺️
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@vinr-mims.bsky.socialI wish this fake history didn't resonate so well with the current moment. There is often TRUTH in fiction that readers ignore because they think of it as about someone else, somewhere else. This was imagined for the US. Building on US history. #ArtPredictsLife #ManInTheHighCastle #PKD
![Page 24 of Man In The Hogh Castle by Phillip K. Dick. Relevant passage starts in first full paragraph and reads:
"But Africa. They had simply let theor enthusiasm get the better of them there, and you had to admire that, although more thoughtful advices would have cautioned them to perhaps let it wait for a bit until, for instance, Project Farmland had been completed. Now there [emphasis original] the Nazis had shown genius; the artist in them had truly emerged. The Mediterranean Sea bottled up, drained, made into tillable farmland, throigh the use of atomic power-- what daring! How the sniggerers had been set back on their heels, for instance certain scoffing merchants along Montgomery Street. And as a matter of fact, Africa had almost been successful...but in a project of that sort, *almost* [emphasis original] was an ominous word to begin to hear. Rosenberg's well-known pamphlet issued in 1958; the word had first shown up, then. *As to the Final Solution of the Africa Problem, we have almost achieved our objectives. Unfortunately, however *--
Still, it had taken two hundred years to dispose of the American aborigines, and Germany had almost done it in Africa in fifteen years. So no criticism was legitimately in order. Childan had, in fact, argued it out recently while having lunch with certain of those merchants. They expected miracles, evidently, as if Nazis could remold the world by magic. No, it was science and technology and that fabulous talent for hard work; the Germans never stopped applying themselves. And when they did a task, they did it *right* [emphasis original]."
That was difficult to type. It is difficult to read and listen to in the audiobook. If it isn't, you are the reason we can't have nice things, like individual rights. You should seek professional help instead of punishing the world for your insecurities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:plnz2hfs6eua3dzzq3jgbhdk/bafkreieoqn6gm7sg3d4m3fujytl3doyrwf2smacrrlvlsjz63zodwdxumq@jpeg)
@jalexandercohen.comOh great, I designed an empathy box cf. #PKD and Mercerism).
As they said in #BloomCounty: "Did you at least keep the receipt?!"
@dbcurren.bsky.social“In fact, Dick is now a must-read author—if only as an iconoclastic #thinker and #socialcommentator. Of course, the storytelling is still important, but not as escapism. His #novels have been transformed from pulp fiction into allegories or parables for our own time” #PhilipKDick #PKD #BookSky
@dbcurren.bsky.social“But in #VALIS, #Dick actually starts writing at a dazzlingly high level. The coarse #pulp-fiction author disappears completely from view and instead we have an edgy prose stylist whose work can stand comparison with Pynchon and Heller …” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia... #PhilipKDick #PKD #BookSky
@itsadequate.bsky.social“This must come as a wonderful surprise. You’ve won the mandatory prize, so if you come with me now, we’ll take you into protective custody.” open.spotify.com/track/7z5TcA... #prog #rock #pkd
@jci.orgEvidence for a tubular basement membrane-cilia connection in autosomal dominant #PolycysticKidneyDisease pathogenesis: doi.org/10.1172/JCI2...
Caroline R Sussman & Peter C Harris @mayoclinic.org comment on Mazloum et al.: doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...
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@billybuddweiser.bsky.socialSpotted in local charity shop: three comic book albums I lent to an ex-girlfriend's father & never got back, stickered up well out of my price range.
They also have an extremely bedraggled 1st edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that they want £999.99 for. #PKD
Price-gouging bastards!
@itsadequate.bsky.socialTrack 4 on our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate album is ‘Smile, Smile, Smile’, inspired by Philip K Dick’s ‘Flow My Tears The Policeman Said’. open.spotify.com/track/3mtNUd...
#pkd #scifi #music