“A Scanner Darkly” is my favorite, PKD was a visionary, when we can at this time, look back at the history of the war on drugs. Now to me his most peculiar and interesting ideas were his development and description of what was later developed by the Wachowski Bros into “The Matrix.” His idea of what he has described in interviews as “living an alternate separate timeline,” this idea has become widely discussed today, even evolving into the idea that we may literally be living in a massive computer generated simulation, perhaps from a civilization in the future even. Highly speculative sci-fi topics are now mainstream nearly. Thank PKD for bridging the gap from obscure to mainstream.
Very well said. One of my favorites. This was like one of the first Matrix movies. I loved Dreamscape as a kid, too. The 1983 movie Brainstorm was another excellent movie. Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood were in it. Sadly, Natalie Wood passed away before the end of the movie. Nietzsche believed that dreams are a way to relive the conditions of early humans, when hallucinations were more vivid and affected entire communities. In regard to verifiable pagan myths, many Christians believe that God “gave a glimpse” to the souls of various peoples before the incarnation of Christ, speaking in parables to the world around the Israelites. In regard to this, even the Scriptures allude to this when the Wise Men of the East travel to worship the Christ Child, entertaining the certain realities of truth. C.S. Lewis once said, speaking of these pagan myths, “they were like ‘strange dreams’ of the Truth that was to come”. Jung theorized that these archetypes were the ancient riverbeds along which our psychic current naturally flows. When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. -- Philip K. Dick A Scanner Darkly? This was very good movie that reflected how war profiteering drifts from Manichean Heresy (far right-wing politics) to Albigensian Heresy (far left-wing politics) as some people falsely express their faith through their 'political narrative'. It results in some Malthusian Apocalypse. For some people their faith is the 'drug' they use to express their hatred, and this should have never happened. It appears the U.S. Democrats and the U.S. Republicans have been War Profiteering since they assassinated JFK on November 22, 1963. I am reminded of G. K. Chesterton: A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me is that the Conservative and the Progressive are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is a put-up job, and that the way they perpetually play into each other's hands is not an everlasting coincidence. -- G. K. Chesterton ❤ This would very much echo Ralph Nader saying the US is one party under the illusion of Democratic and Republican choice - the twin evils of plutocracy and bureaucracy. As George Carlin once said, "You have the illusion of choice..." Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great but judge your neighbor fairly. -- Leviticus 19:15
I went on that journey back in 1990 with the help of a local small bookstore. Quite the experience...always a highlight when, after months, a new paperback would show up and I'd get the call that a book on the list had been found. It wasn't so easy back then before his books began to be republished...
"In 1955, when I'd write a sci-fi novel, I'd set it I'm the year 2000, I realized around 1977 that my God it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950's, everything's just turning out to be real" -PKD
FINALLY!!!!!!!!! ~ another (hotly anticipated) PKD post! LOOKING FORWARD... to your reviews for the other half of the novels. (I have already finished the list, not that I'm bragging.)
The problem i have found, is if you spend enough time researching him, you eventually start finding information that contradicts itself. (a fitting outcome perhaps). Some people say he spent years popping pills, some say he only ever took the one drop of acid, had a bad trip (which he wrote about in comedic fashion) and then stuck to weed. There's reports of him having worked in an abattoir, and having threatened one of his wives with a gun during an argument. In the end, the picture of the man becomes blurred. One thing i can be sure of is that his stories had a lot of empathy in them, but whether he practiced what he preached, i have no idea.
He was actually a neighbor at one point, but at the time I didn’t know it. I’ve heard he was the kinda guy you could knock on his door, and have a cuppa with him. Wild.
Thanks so much for the great presentation. You make an excellent case for how knowing the life of this author in particular aligns with a greater appreciation of his writing. “Intergalactic Pot-Healer” was the first PKD novel that found its way into my hands as a teenager. A breezy read and I gift it occasionally as it’s a good intro to his sensibilities as a science fiction writer.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. I had the whole slew of your PKD viddies in my watch later queue for one big ol' binge-a-rama some night and then they all disdapeareded from the channel on me right around the time I'd watched everything else and was getting ready to tuck in for some dessert. whoo hoo, dessert for sleepytime tonight!
Philip K. Dick was also very popular in France. The first novels I read were The Man in the High Castle and Ubik. Later I read almost all his novels and short stories.
Oh! Not a video game reference! Gene Wolfe sent me to the OED with a longer list than anyone! Back when it was 1.5 shelves in a library. Many words constructed of Greek roots. Also rich and poignant story line.
Amazing video and work! Idk if he was crazy at the end and that speech blew people's mind and probably inspired a lot of the matrix...he was a prophet and genius, thank you for making a video on the king :)
Very good video, I enjoyed it. By the way, what happened to all your older videos? Is youtube f##king up again or did you pull them down for some reason?
he's been inspiring me since bladerunner... then the word universe showed me transmigration from warp, and i found again the transmigration of timothy archer. thank you for a highly entertaining and edumacational vid
took a PKD fan tattoo this week; Zebra king named Felix with pink backround. also im a surreal artist with same diet and try not to never leave my house/art
It was the adaptation of I ching to pkd that got me. Caught the little phrases that say you also know your douglas adams too. I had to subscribe for these reasons.😊
Time out of Joint, Martian Time Slip, Man in a High Castle for me catch the essence of Dick, strangeness, paranoia, but also deftly brilliant writing. The other writings, though some of his short stories are brilliant , are fascinatingly deranged, but lack the creative precision of truly original fiction. But I admit not to have read his later works like Ubik, Valis, A Scanner Darkly,I think because I feel that in the the earlier books he had produced, for me, a perfection which I did not want spoiled.
If you had never read any science fiction, but had read a lot of post-modernist stuff from the 60s and 70s, and of PKD's output, the only thing you had read was VALIS, it would fit perfectly into that post-modern American literary ouvre. I recently read VALIS and was struck by how much it was clearly influenced by writers like Pynchon and De Lillo and Burroughs, and to me it felt like that is what Dick was trying to do with that novel. I don't think I would even consider it SF, it is much more firmly within that American mid-20th century post-modernist lane. That doesn't mean it isn't also SF, just that to me it felt like Dick was deliberately stepping outside the SF genre and trying, belatedly, to fit into what was considered really serious literature at the time. If you haven't read Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon, I strongly recommend it. Also, sorry but I'm broke as, so I'm taking the low road. I'll join the Cult once the cost of living crisis is over
That's a fantastic collection, i have it myself and display it naked (the books) I'm not sure how much Dick you have read so may i suggest reading the set in order, so making A Scanner Darkly the 9th book and finishing with those 3 Valis books.
@@MediaDeathCult over the years I've read A Scanner Darkly, Ubik, High Castle, Flow Me y Tears and just recently Android Sheep. Plus countless short stories. But as you suggested reading them all in order. It's been years except for Sheep.
Ah, ok, i too had read a few of the "big ones" before going further. My advice to anyone new to PKD is to do just that, read a few well-known titles, then mix it up and just leave A Scanner Darkly and Valis until you know a bit more about the man himself, the impact is so much stronger that way.
@@MediaDeathCult I mainly read on my kindle. But I've got a few of the LOA box sets of other authors Im a fan of - Chandler, Hammer, Elmore Leonard and Ross Macdonald.
I might be out of the loop, but what happened to all of Moids videos? There is barely anything left on this channel? I was gonna look at one of the old tier list for inspiration for something to read, but they are all gone.
UA-cam copyright issues I believe so easier to pull them down than risk the 3 strikes and have no channel. UA-cam sucks! Yet it’s also the reason we get to watch things like this so… swings and roundabouts.
@@Revanchist Oh fair play then my apologies for spreading false information! That’s what a friend told me when I asked! Mad respect to Moid for that! I mean it’s his art at the end of the day and he can do what he wants but to newer viewers it shows the quality from the start if you get what I mean. It’s consistent. From the early vids he said he wanted to make a living doing this and I think his new content really pushes the boundaries and separates him from booktube. Each video is almost like a BBC Panorama episode or something. Also, it makes the old cult members have something to make them feel like true OGs of the channel. Sorry mad rant over. All hail the great cult leader!!! 🙌
The trouble with separating the art from the artist is it blinds you to the influence the author's beliefs had on their work. You cannot properly discuss Lovecraft without also talking about Lovecraft's intense bigotry or the Ender's Game series without bringing up Orson Scott Card's messed up politics. Acknowledging an artist's flaws or problematic views doesn't mean you can't enjoy their work. Going back to Lovecraft, he is still one of my favorite writers even with his awful views. I would never say somebody shouldn't read The Dunwich Horror or The Shadow Over Innsmouth but if we try to discuss art in a vacuum, we end up leaving out crucial elements of the conversation.
Thanks, it's a loose trilogy, based on the same general theme but Valis is the main one, and Radio Free Albermuth is a different draft of the same story, still good though
@@MediaDeathCult After watching your video I've dug out my P Dick bag of books from my garage. Mostly short story compilations I've picked up on my travels. Take care.
Since you don't mention your sources I don't know if you have read High Weirdness by Erik Davis but in case you have not, I highly recommend it for further context. As a bonus it also talks about Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna.
Unrelated, but: I finally read Ender's Game based on your earlier recommendations, and it was excellent. Interestingly, though, many people hate the book!
Pretty good, but I liked Alvin Maker Better. And all the Formic stories I could check out from the library on CD told the same story over from different angles. Alright already, after awhile! At least I enjoyed those with my hands and eyeballs free.
This was a phenomenal video. Honestly your channel is my favorite and one of only 5 i have notification active. But i struggle to recommend your video's to friends because of the channel NAME. Have you thought of a name change? It would help the UA-cam Algorithm. Regardless, looking forward to the next video. Cheers.
Didn't his kid have a medical emergency and he had a precognition about the cause? Iirc they rushed to the hospital and he told the doctors to look for a specific thing and perform a certain scan and it was exactly that and it was quite rare or something unexpected of some sorts. However, this could be part of his mysterious persona as well, after all.
During my research i discovered that this was of course, complete bollocks, but it does illustrate my point that he was partly living in a world of his own fiction. He was not a precog.
I've seen drug abuse do this to more than a few people without Dick's creativity and talent. Sadly, there's about 10% of the population with brains (or maybe just minds) that just can't handle them and they never know if they're one of them until it's too late. Granted, it's still going to happen before they turn 50. Regardless, it's just sad to see.
The "weirdness" happened in the 1960s when he saw the sinister "face in the sky" that inspired "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch". It seems that the amphetamines were having a very adverse effect on his mind. That and his loneliness as a writer. It was also Gnostic in appearance, something he was very interested in, and he was sure that "God" was after him. What he thought was true and afraid of was projected from his mind and "realised". The nightmarish sequences in the novel, was what he felt at the time he had the vision. It was "autobiographical". He said that his later experiences were rooted in this "event". What happened to him in the 1970s was not isolated or probably unanticipated, but this time he wasn't afraid. It was more personal and obsessive though, that effected the writing of the later novels. I prefer "The Divine Invasion", that's more like vintage Dick. "Radio Free Albumuth" required a rewrite, but came-up with the prolix "Valis" instead. He did intend to have "Radio Free Albemuth" published as a separate novel, but it he never got the chance to revise it, so it appeared as it was, after he died. I don't think he believed everything he said about his strange experiences, including the famous Metz Speech. You can't take him literally. If he was crazy, at least he was aware of it. He liked to play with theories and concepts and alter them as he felt like it. He was having fun too. In "Valis", it's Horselover Fat, his shadowy side, who has the crazy visions, not the "real" Philip Dick, and they're told through his observations of him. Of "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", he said that it wasn't about insanity because it is insanity. I think then that he also didn't entirely believe the veracity of what he thought he see during that period in his life.
“A Scanner Darkly” is my favorite, PKD was a visionary, when we can at this time, look back at the history of the war on drugs. Now to me his most peculiar and interesting ideas were his development and description of what was later developed by the Wachowski Bros into “The Matrix.” His idea of what he has described in interviews as “living an alternate separate timeline,” this idea has become widely discussed today, even evolving into the idea that we may literally be living in a massive computer generated simulation, perhaps from a civilization in the future even. Highly speculative sci-fi topics are now mainstream nearly. Thank PKD for bridging the gap from obscure to mainstream.
Very well said. One of my favorites.
This was like one of the first Matrix movies. I loved Dreamscape as a kid, too. The 1983 movie Brainstorm was another excellent movie. Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood were in it. Sadly, Natalie Wood passed away before the end of the movie.
Nietzsche believed that dreams are a way to relive the conditions of early humans, when hallucinations were more vivid and affected entire communities. In regard to verifiable pagan myths, many Christians believe that God “gave a glimpse” to the souls of various peoples before the incarnation of Christ, speaking in parables to the world around the Israelites.
In regard to this, even the Scriptures allude to this when the Wise Men of the East travel to worship the Christ Child, entertaining the certain realities of truth. C.S. Lewis once said, speaking of these pagan myths, “they were like ‘strange dreams’ of the Truth that was to come”. Jung theorized that these archetypes were the ancient riverbeds along which our psychic current naturally flows.
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. -- Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly?
This was very good movie that reflected how war profiteering drifts from Manichean Heresy (far right-wing politics) to Albigensian Heresy (far left-wing politics) as some people falsely express their faith through their 'political narrative'. It results in some Malthusian Apocalypse. For some people their faith is the 'drug' they use to express their hatred, and this should have never happened. It appears the U.S. Democrats and the U.S. Republicans have been War Profiteering since they assassinated JFK on November 22, 1963.
I am reminded of G. K. Chesterton: A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me is that the Conservative and the Progressive are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is a put-up job, and that the way they perpetually play into each other's hands is not an everlasting coincidence. -- G. K. Chesterton ❤
This would very much echo Ralph Nader saying the US is one party under the illusion of Democratic and Republican choice - the twin evils of plutocracy and bureaucracy.
As George Carlin once said, "You have the illusion of choice..."
Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great but judge your neighbor fairly.
-- Leviticus 19:15
to me, a hidden impressive part of this reading challenge is finding copies of all the novels.
you can find them.
I went on that journey back in 1990 with the help of a local small bookstore. Quite the experience...always a highlight when, after months, a new paperback would show up and I'd get the call that a book on the list had been found.
It wasn't so easy back then before his books began to be republished...
You can never get enough Dick.
No kidding, especially if you're on a budget
"In 1955, when I'd write a sci-fi novel, I'd set it I'm the year 2000, I realized around 1977 that my God it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950's, everything's just turning out to be real" -PKD
I read "Ubik" and "Second Variety" this year, and loved them both. PDK is amazing
Use only as directed.
I’m reading time out of joint at the moment . Love PKD like you working my way through all his work in a random fashion. Great video Moid.
Thank you
FINALLY!!!!!!!!! ~ another (hotly anticipated) PKD post! LOOKING FORWARD... to your reviews for the other half of the novels. (I have already finished the list, not that I'm bragging.)
Well done and well researched dude!!! You make me want to read more of his material
Thank you
This video was so good. Great detail
Thank You
Enjoyed the re-watch!
Thank you
To try and out do you I will rewatch this three times.
Wow, one of your best videos so far.
Thank you
Definitely!
The problem i have found, is if you spend enough time researching him, you eventually start finding information that contradicts itself. (a fitting outcome perhaps). Some people say he spent years popping pills, some say he only ever took the one drop of acid, had a bad trip (which he wrote about in comedic fashion) and then stuck to weed. There's reports of him having worked in an abattoir, and having threatened one of his wives with a gun during an argument. In the end, the picture of the man becomes blurred. One thing i can be sure of is that his stories had a lot of empathy in them, but whether he practiced what he preached, i have no idea.
Agreed, but there is a general consensus
He was actually a neighbor at one point, but at the time I didn’t know it. I’ve heard he was the kinda guy you could knock on his door, and have a cuppa with him. Wild.
Thanks so much for the great presentation. You make an excellent case for how knowing the life of this author in particular aligns with a greater appreciation of his writing.
“Intergalactic Pot-Healer” was the first PKD novel that found its way into my hands as a teenager. A breezy read and I gift it occasionally as it’s a good intro to his sensibilities as a science fiction writer.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. I had the whole slew of your PKD viddies in my watch later queue for one big ol' binge-a-rama some night and then they all disdapeareded from the channel on me right around the time I'd watched everything else and was getting ready to tuck in for some dessert. whoo hoo, dessert for sleepytime tonight!
A juicy, meaty, nourishing video. Thank you kind sir
Philip K. Dick was also very popular in France. The first novels I read were The Man in the High Castle and Ubik. Later I read almost all his novels and short stories.
Valis made me cry and laugh often - what a sad book. His best/funniest/darkest writing. My favorite, closely followed by Flow my tears.
Dick Bag Bingo is genius. 😂😅
His middle name was likely Kindred considering he had a twin sister.
Wife number 2 should be designated Second Variety.
Followed by Radio Three Albemuth, Remember it Fourth You Wholesale and Now Wait for Last Wife. :)
*chef's kiss* of an analogy. Thank you.
The thin line between Phillip K Dicks drug psychosis which was seen as mental health issues.
Vs L Ron Hubbards takes... which people take religiously.
Where are all your book recommendation videos my guy you were my go too 😢
20:20 Most captivating "Like your mom" joke ever. Very fitting for a legend with Dick in his name. ♥
Great vid. Thank you.
If anything, P.K.D. taught us that reality is overrated.
I love these new videos...but where did all the old ones go? I wanted to rewatch your BotNS breakdowns.
Currently working on the only BOTNS video you will ever need
@@MediaDeathCult sweeeeet
Oh! Not a video game reference!
Gene Wolfe sent me to the OED with a longer list than anyone! Back when it was 1.5 shelves in a library.
Many words constructed of Greek roots.
Also rich and poignant story line.
Amazing video and work!
Idk if he was crazy at the end and that speech blew people's mind and probably inspired a lot of the matrix...he was a prophet and genius, thank you for making a video on the king :)
My pleasure, thanks
Very good video, I enjoyed it. By the way, what happened to all your older videos? Is youtube f##king up again or did you pull them down for some reason?
he's been inspiring me since bladerunner... then the word universe showed me transmigration from warp, and i found again the transmigration of timothy archer. thank you for a highly entertaining and edumacational vid
My pleasure
Philip K. Dick; did put out some information similar to The Mandela Effect, that he mentions about slight changes, that occur in our reality. 🧙♂
took a PKD fan tattoo this week; Zebra king named Felix with pink backround. also im a surreal artist with same diet and try not to never leave my house/art
It was the adaptation of I ching to pkd that got me. Caught the little phrases that say you also know your douglas adams too. I had to subscribe for these reasons.😊
Time out of Joint, Martian Time Slip, Man in a High Castle for me catch the essence of Dick, strangeness, paranoia, but also deftly brilliant writing. The other writings, though some of his short stories are brilliant , are fascinatingly deranged, but lack the creative precision of truly original fiction. But I admit not to have read his later works like Ubik, Valis, A Scanner Darkly,I think because I feel that in the the earlier books he had produced, for me, a perfection which I did not want spoiled.
If you had never read any science fiction, but had read a lot of post-modernist stuff from the 60s and 70s, and of PKD's output, the only thing you had read was VALIS, it would fit perfectly into that post-modern American literary ouvre. I recently read VALIS and was struck by how much it was clearly influenced by writers like Pynchon and De Lillo and Burroughs, and to me it felt like that is what Dick was trying to do with that novel. I don't think I would even consider it SF, it is much more firmly within that American mid-20th century post-modernist lane. That doesn't mean it isn't also SF, just that to me it felt like Dick was deliberately stepping outside the SF genre and trying, belatedly, to fit into what was considered really serious literature at the time. If you haven't read Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon, I strongly recommend it.
Also, sorry but I'm broke as, so I'm taking the low road. I'll join the Cult once the cost of living crisis is over
Great comment and i agree, Valis is something different
Great video man, new subscriber, congratulations , U have arrived 😊
Thanks, and welcome
What happened to the discord?
Takk!
Thank You
I've only ever read Man in the High Castle but I've got a handful of others on my shelf. I'll read them someday I promise!
Great video.
I did my higher English in the 90's on Humpty Dumpty in Oakland and got a right slagging off by my teacher. It was very Steinbecky.
Wife picked up the Library of America three volume set of 13 of his books. For an early birthday present. Cant wait to read and reread them
That's a fantastic collection, i have it myself and display it naked (the books)
I'm not sure how much Dick you have read so may i suggest reading the set in order, so making A Scanner Darkly the 9th book and finishing with those 3 Valis books.
@@MediaDeathCult over the years I've read A Scanner Darkly, Ubik, High Castle, Flow Me y Tears and just recently Android Sheep. Plus countless short stories. But as you suggested reading them all in order. It's been years except for Sheep.
Ah, ok, i too had read a few of the "big ones" before going further.
My advice to anyone new to PKD is to do just that, read a few well-known titles, then mix it up and just leave A Scanner Darkly and Valis until you know a bit more about the man himself, the impact is so much stronger that way.
@@MediaDeathCult I mainly read on my kindle. But I've got a few of the LOA box sets of other authors Im a fan of - Chandler, Hammer, Elmore Leonard and Ross Macdonald.
I might be out of the loop, but what happened to all of Moids videos? There is barely anything left on this channel?
I was gonna look at one of the old tier list for inspiration for something to read, but they are all gone.
UA-cam copyright issues I believe so easier to pull them down than risk the 3 strikes and have no channel.
UA-cam sucks! Yet it’s also the reason we get to watch things like this so… swings and roundabouts.
@@rustyshackleford1875 He said he deleted them because he didn't think they were any good
@@Revanchist Oh fair play then my apologies for spreading false information! That’s what a friend told me when I asked!
Mad respect to Moid for that! I mean it’s his art at the end of the day and he can do what he wants but to newer viewers it shows the quality from the start if you get what I mean. It’s consistent. From the early vids he said he wanted to make a living doing this and I think his new content really pushes the boundaries and separates him from booktube. Each video is almost like a BBC Panorama episode or something. Also, it makes the old cult members have something to make them feel like true OGs of the channel.
Sorry mad rant over. All hail the great cult leader!!! 🙌
@@Revanchistthat was a joke
@@rustyshackleford1875this is correct
When you said "praise the lord for failure and drugs", I literally spit out my coffee lol
The trouble with separating the art from the artist is it blinds you to the influence the author's beliefs had on their work. You cannot properly discuss Lovecraft without also talking about Lovecraft's intense bigotry or the Ender's Game series without bringing up Orson Scott Card's messed up politics.
Acknowledging an artist's flaws or problematic views doesn't mean you can't enjoy their work. Going back to Lovecraft, he is still one of my favorite writers even with his awful views. I would never say somebody shouldn't read The Dunwich Horror or The Shadow Over Innsmouth but if we try to discuss art in a vacuum, we end up leaving out crucial elements of the conversation.
Immortal!!! ♥️❤️🌎🌏🌍🌐
Thank you, Cult Leader Moid.
Thank you so much
Amazing insight. Didn't realise Valis was a trilogy.
Thanks, it's a loose trilogy, based on the same general theme but Valis is the main one, and Radio Free Albermuth is a different draft of the same story, still good though
@@MediaDeathCult After watching your video I've dug out my P Dick bag of books from my garage. Mostly short story compilations I've picked up on my travels. Take care.
7:42 Amen
Since you don't mention your sources I don't know if you have read High Weirdness by Erik Davis but in case you have not, I highly recommend it for further context. As a bonus it also talks about Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna.
Hi Raf, hope you're well.
No, I haven't read that but i'll check it out, thank you
Unrelated, but: I finally read Ender's Game based on your earlier recommendations, and it was excellent. Interestingly, though, many people hate the book!
Pretty good, but I liked Alvin Maker Better.
And all the Formic stories I could check out from the library on CD told the same story over from different angles.
Alright already, after awhile!
At least I enjoyed those with my hands and eyeballs free.
Reality is optional
-PKD (probably)
He was me and i was him. Octogonal time.
This was a phenomenal video. Honestly your channel is my favorite and one of only 5 i have notification active. But i struggle to recommend your video's to friends because of the channel NAME. Have you thought of a name change? It would help the UA-cam Algorithm. Regardless, looking forward to the next video. Cheers.
Thanks Barry, Death Cult forever
Didn't his kid have a medical emergency and he had a precognition about the cause? Iirc they rushed to the hospital and he told the doctors to look for a specific thing and perform a certain scan and it was exactly that and it was quite rare or something unexpected of some sorts. However, this could be part of his mysterious persona as well, after all.
During my research i discovered that this was of course, complete bollocks, but it does illustrate my point that he was partly living in a world of his own fiction.
He was not a precog.
@@MediaDeathCult Thank you very much for the answer! He had too much of a good thing.
Rest in peace, Dick..
Did each subsequent wife not know about his history of marriage? Clearly, he was a personal charmer as well as a literary charmer.
I've seen drug abuse do this to more than a few people without Dick's creativity and talent.
Sadly, there's about 10% of the population with brains (or maybe just minds) that just can't handle them and they never know if they're one of them until it's too late.
Granted, it's still going to happen before they turn 50. Regardless, it's just sad to see.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said would make for a great flick.
Филип Дик - мой любимый писатель ❤
The "weirdness" happened in the 1960s when he saw the sinister "face in the sky" that inspired "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch". It seems that the amphetamines were having a very adverse effect on his mind. That and his loneliness as a writer. It was also Gnostic in appearance, something he was very interested in, and he was sure that "God" was after him. What he thought was true and afraid of was projected from his mind and "realised". The nightmarish sequences in the novel, was what he felt at the time he had the vision. It was "autobiographical". He said that his later experiences were rooted in this "event". What happened to him in the 1970s was not isolated or probably unanticipated, but this time he wasn't afraid. It was more personal and obsessive though, that effected the writing of the later novels. I prefer "The Divine Invasion", that's more like vintage Dick. "Radio Free Albumuth" required a rewrite, but came-up with the prolix "Valis" instead. He did intend to have "Radio Free Albemuth" published as a separate novel, but it he never got the chance to revise it, so it appeared as it was, after he died.
I don't think he believed everything he said about his strange experiences, including the famous Metz Speech. You can't take him literally. If he was crazy, at least he was aware of it. He liked to play with theories and concepts and alter them as he felt like it. He was having fun too. In "Valis", it's Horselover Fat, his shadowy side, who has the crazy visions, not the "real" Philip Dick, and they're told through his observations of him. Of "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", he said that it wasn't about insanity because it is insanity. I think then that he also didn't entirely believe the veracity of what he thought he see during that period in his life.
Great comment, thanks
@@MediaDeathCult Really pleased that you like it.🙂
Didn't PKD make himself a character in VALIS? Or maybe it was Radio Free Albemuth?
Both, sort of
I recall the name Horselover Fat in "VALIS". That was an alter ego or projection of a personality he thought he had, I think.
Sounds like Dick got a lot of his ideas out. I could take a page out his book.
Solid
Call me "moral lowdown Steve", thanks for the video.
The drug use is why I find Philip K Dick so difficult to read, I know from experience how such a brain works
Sneaky St Vincent musical cue?
I don't know what that is
@@MediaDeathCult The little bit of music used at 7.44 sounds like an orchestral version of Pills by St Vincent.
I use Epidemic Sound for all my music, not sure what that track was called
cool
What I would give to have a drink with Phillip K Dick and Carl Jung...
Did you say a bit Metal? Or a bit mental?
Either Or
If he was alive today he would surely have youtube channel and talk shit about classics ;D
Maze Of Death.
One of my favourites, underrated i think
I absolutely love your channel! Keep doing what you're doing! PKD was someone very special! I really enjoyed learning more about him.
@@michellevey9608Thank you, we’re just getting started
PKD is my Prophet.
What happened to all of your own videos? So confused by your channel right now
He was the best...duh.
It was mostly cocaine...
Mate, if you consider Dick from a materialistic standpoint (it's all about drugs and mental health), you are totally missing his point.
Hi just wondering why making a video you are packing? Is it dangerous or an American thing? Thanks Rod
Sorry obvious joke
No you tube will ban me
Or, he was right.