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Philip K. Dick always rewards the interested reader. He is conceptually interesting, and he has a drug-addled outsider perspective that leads him to write fascinatingly paranoid parables about societies flirting with fascism and about the nature of reality in a reality suffused with the virtual. The World Jones Made is a post-apocalyptic tale about a world that enforces relativism at gunpoint in order to avoid another devastating war. The plot is, I'm guessing, the one that the writer-director o
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Provides an interesting commentary on what Dick obviously thought was a human need to believe strongly in something greater than oneself, and his typically pessimistic commentary on where this must lead. Nevertheless, he seems to thinks that if not worthwhile, it is at least futile fighting against. (Interesting the cross-reference this with Roger Griffin's book on Fascism.)
i see things completely differently, but enjoyed the tale. ...more
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I couldn't help but wonder, while I read this: if present Jones exists and is aware of both present and future (to him, present and past) one year in advance, then is future/present Jones also aware of his future one year in advance? Is his perception of the universe infinitely recursive?
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One of Dick's earliest stories, and whereas the ideas are there, his writing style has not fully formed yet and as such it's not as enjoyable as his later works.
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Oct 18, 2012
Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann
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it was amazing
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dystopian,
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ab-do,
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wanderlust,
post-apocalyptic,
violentia,
favourite,
kultur,
apocalyptic
Dec 15, 2012
Charles Baudelaire
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