A PKD Moment
Nov 29, 2003: WIRED has a pretty decent article up now about Hollywood's new fascination with the works of Phillip K. Dick. I find the article a little depressing -- okay, a lot depressing -- because of the gosh-wow enthusiasm with which it embraces the idea that an author's works are only properly valued once they're ground up like sausage and commodified -- but I just had to link it here for this great quote from one of PKD's essays:

"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."