First episode of 2025, and we're not fucking around. We're going straight into Philip K. Dick's Exegesis. Eight thousand pages of late-night scrawling where one of sci-fi's most unhinged geniuses tried to figure out what the hell happened to him in 1974.
Dick had a vision. Or a breakdown. Maybe both. For the rest of his life, he couldn't stop writing about it. Obsessively circling questions about reality, God, time, whether we're living in ancient Rome with a corporate skin stretched over it, and whether his own mind had shattered into pieces or expanded into something else entirely.
We're looking at how Dick's personal unraveling, or awakening, depending on your perspective, bled into everything he wrote. Ubik warps reality until you don't know what's solid anymore. VALIS turns the search for God into a paranoid detective story. His fiction became the testing ground for ideas too weird for philosophy departments but too persistent to ignore.
And here's the thing: Dick's questions hit different now. We're building AIs that might be conscious. We're half-serious about living in a simulation. The world feels more fake every day. Dick was asking "What is real?" before it became our daily condition.
This isn't about answers. Dick didn't have them, and neither do we. But if you want to sit with the discomfort of not knowing, if you're drawn to the big metaphysical questions that won't leave you alone, or if you just want to understand why this dead sci-fi writer still matters, this one's for you.
We're going into the Exegesis. Bring a flashlight.
Much love, David x
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