Our culture and politics still echo with one of Dick’s core ideas: that the world is a matrix governed by corrupt, secretive and malevolent elites. Now what?
You can be sure whenever they say it’s not about the money, it’s about the money. Those pesky LCWR types always seem to want to give it away. To the poor. Whatever will they think of next?
The writer’s sprawling 8,000-page “Exegesis” harkens back to the future with the second-century Christian Gnostics.
He was one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 20th century, but few people consider him a thinker. That would be a mistake.
