i think Philip K. Dick is great in the sense that he will provide a “payoff,” usually in some outrageous idea or comment about how weird and insane a “normal” society actually might be. as if Dick were saying, “i hate to tell you how nuts *you* really are, but jeez…” (and hey, all you did was, you believed what they told you).

so it’s exhilarating in bursts of insight, and then also painful, because, well, there’s this huge lack of respect for living things, if you can somehow manage to label them as inferior… anyhow, i paid my fare, now i’m already strapped in, the pilot got up and left, now someone else is flipping switches randomly and saying, “Do these systems actually work?”