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I rarely speak to anyone but my wife about many things like this. Barely anyone I talk to reads anything at all and fewer yet have read PKD despite the fact his writing is really quite approachable. And its definitely applicable to the current world. His descriptions of life in future California basically mirrored my reality, the characters in A Scanner Darkly seemed like a lot of the people I grew up around, living in the coastal west. I remember seeing people, parents of friends, that acted like these burned out labile characters that are in the story. I should read some of his works again, I think I'd get more out of them. Especially Androids.
My dad actually mentions this issue, he calls it sameness. The same products everywhere, the same jobs, the same education. The system perfects itself and transforms itself into a dull monotone f efficiency before it falls. He said Rome died of sameness. It's like the McDonald's hamburgers PKD mentions, which make me cringe when I see the same corpos everywhere. I want to take my wife out of the country for a trip, not just tourist Mexico and Canada where she has been, but I want to show her something different because this shit is all the same. Although it's spreading worldwide too.
As for the exegesis and the Valis trilogy I've never heard of either so I'll read your link and try and find them. I need a new book and I really enjoy his writing style, it's good prose but not endlessly flowery and pretentious. I'd love to talk more about it if you have any other suggestions etc. I enjoyed hearing your perspective.
My dad actually mentions this issue, he calls it sameness. The same products everywhere, the same jobs, the same education. The system perfects itself and transforms itself into a dull monotone f efficiency before it falls. He said Rome died of sameness. It's like the McDonald's hamburgers PKD mentions, which make me cringe when I see the same corpos everywhere. I want to take my wife out of the country for a trip, not just tourist Mexico and Canada where she has been, but I want to show her something different because this shit is all the same. Although it's spreading worldwide too.
As for the exegesis and the Valis trilogy I've never heard of either so I'll read your link and try and find them. I need a new book and I really enjoy his writing style, it's good prose but not endlessly flowery and pretentious. I'd love to talk more about it if you have any other suggestions etc. I enjoyed hearing your perspective.