rozehead

i've been reading a lot of Philip K. Dick lately.
the big issues concern reality and what it means to be human.
i think what he's saying is that we have to metaphysically take a step to a different vantage point, in order to see that the consensual views of the universe may not be "true" or "real". just because everyone thinks the world is flat, for example, doesn't make it so. if you could see the world from the moon, then the truth might be seen. we are so rooted in the mundane that we we can't see the way things "really" are.
he really provokes me to think about things in a new way.

i recommend--
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
"UBIK"
"VALIS"
"Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said"
"A Scanner Darkly"