Great opinion piece by Maureen Dowd in the NY Times on Tuesday. But one particular bit strikes me as odd:
Even before a Nigerian with Al Qaeda links tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet headed to Detroit, travelers could see we had made no progress toward a technologically wondrous Philip K. Dick universe.
“Philip K. Dick” and “technologically wondrous” scribbled in the same sentence seems a bit incongruous. Hard to decipher much in the way of “wondrousness” in a PKD story. There’s more political and techno-paranoia in his work than there is wonder and it’s entirely possible that we’ve “progressed” too far in that direction already.
Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.—Philip K. Dick | via Wikipedia
Can I get an amen?