We hypothesize information into objects. Rearrangements of objects in the change in the content of the information. The message has changed. This is a language we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of information. We ourselves are information-rich; information is entered into us, is processed and then is projected outwards once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.
-- Philip K. Dick
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
-- Philip K. Dick
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick
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.
-- Philip K. Dick
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
-- Philip K. Dick
Can any of us fix anything? No. None of us can do that. We're specialized. Each one of us has his own line, his own work. I understand my work, you understand yours. The tendency in evolution is toward greater and greater specialization. Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it. Continued complexity makes it impossible for us to know anything outside our own personal field - I can't follow the work of the man sitting at the next desk over from me. Too much knowledge has piled up in each field. And there are too many fields.
-- Philip K. Dick
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick
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