Thats what im currently talking to my mother about. Perhaps schizophrenia, i know one and he is very calm like this. Ive listened to 3 of his interviews today.
Does it take a madman to write about mad people? I believe people can innately relate to mental illness and mental disorders because all sane people have those tendencies within them - not that they get expressed - but in potentiality.
@@jorgecarson9133 In my opinion it takes a madman for the madness described to be meaningful and on point. Otherwise the madness described would be just a prop in the narrative, in that case I'm not interested.
Depuis les années 70, J’ai lu et relu les livres de Dick tellement de fois. Son sens de l’humour et son goût pour la musique sont semblables à ceux de Kubrick et mon rêve était que Kubrick mette en image un livre de Dick. Imaginez Ubik ou The three stigmata from Palmer Eldritch ou The penultimate truth porté au cinéma par Kubrick ! Rien que de citer ces titres me donne envie de les relire encore. Dick est un écrivain majeur du XXème siècle.
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I can't imagine the mankind sky whithout Philip K. Dick's star. His books talk us about our present, and i never be able to thank him enough for it. What great american story lessons! What mad world!
@Belarion A.D. el cielo donde brillan las luces de las obras de los grandes nombres de la humanidad (y que pueden servir de guías o faros) ?...or...el cielo de la humanidad ? If i have understood your wish. Translation is not so easy as It seems because "el cielo de la humanidad" don' t match so good. And also as i think you may have seen, english is not my natural langage and i am not always sure of my writings and some unexpected meaning or fail. Greetings. I know Philip K. Dick since 1976 ( i was forteen) with Ubik and solar lotery (and the short story " Forster! You're dead" just before) in french version. The light and joy his work gives me at this time and following it's stronger as time went by.
@Belarion A.D. i was thinking the same at the inverse because of the star (movie) systeme! Sorry! In spanish langage, sky and heaven can be mix, and a lot of time they are. Until the point where sky has almost substitute heaven for meaning heaven. I think it's maybe because that every time that somebody says "this is paradise" this is on earth! 👍
The state of mind described by Dick : people without the ability to connect imagination with intellectual ideas - people today are also in this state, as seen by how easily minds are programmed to worship celebrities, various Elons (millionaires seemingly from nothing, yet their fathers owned diamond mines), etc., etc. - people are programmed not to think independently and not to be interested in ideas that are not fed to them by the state.
PKD's observation that America is anti-intellectual--the mainstream public--is still relevant and true. We're not interested in philosophy, history, but most of all, not interested in theory, only in the pragmatic, the "practical," which is what you would expect from a resource colony and all-stop-shop-nightmare-of-an-economy.
Many thanks for sharing, I know the main Metz 1977 footage but didn't know this existed. He was such a decent human being, always on the side of the "little people" and he simultaneously saw further than most writers. The fact that he struggled for most of his life financially until the late 70s and died just before Blade Runner blew up his name feels so unfair.
maybe it seems unfair for those that think this specific time plane is the best possible existence. PKD clearly didn't think so. i'm not sure you understand his ideas.
It's so interesting hearing him talk about the prestige of science fiction and of his work as someone that has spent the majority of the last 4 years writing about him. I watch the video regularly and find it deeply comforting for some reason.
That's really nice to hear. I am deeply moved by his views, so far as he spoke publicly of them. I believe his view, of how multiple dimensions may conditionally interact/separate due to causal forces of probabilistic outcome, is correct. Dick is just too articulate, he catches these things in his powers of insight.. I would even say, in regards to this timeline, the outcomes did not favor his support.
In his life he was considered ahead of time in thought and creative output. A threat to what was considered to the Amercian way of life in other words 'Cold War politics '.
Indeed....I have a large library, and people say the dumbest things.....one asked 'do you have paper books'...i said yes, reply 'you are an artifact'...lol...
People say science fiction is juvenile but it’s all real philosophy, exploring social, economic, religious, anthropological and many other themes exploring the human condition with much thought.
I love this guy. I recall having read Ubik at some point in high-school and remember nil about it. But I think I'll first read his biography before I go to his work.
Bob Dylan also sang this about PKDs "paranoia"... " Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart-attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders And then the kerosene Is brought down from the castles By insurance men who go Check to see that nobody is escaping To Desolation Row " God bless you, Brother!!
The Center for Christ Consciousness defines it as "the highest state of intellectual development and emotional maturity". It can also be described as a state of awareness of one's true nature, higher self, and birthright as a multi-dimensional soul.....That's what Philip K. Dick was and they knew it ....mind blowing this C.I.A information is coming out now . declassified
The covers of PKD's European books were really great. It's kind of sad that around the time he is taping this interview all the books stores in my area have pretty large Science Fiction sections ... like 5 or 6 feet high 8-12 feet wide.
I don't see much irony as much as prophecy: he is basically always on the side of the ordinary, even small man, being crushed by the (dystopian) governments' boot.
The current situation of SF and fantasy in France is way worse than in the US and the Anglosphere in general. Philp K. Dick, Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Asimov, Frank Herbert, Gene Wolfe, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman are regarded as great writers, they have won important literary prizes, many of then are part of the Library of America or other "classics" collections. In France there's no single speculative fiction writer which is taken seriously. None has won the Prix Goncourt or the Medici or any other prize, none has enter the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (the only one I can think of is Jules Verne), they don't even have the "right" to be part of normal paperback collections like folio, the blanche collection from Gallimard, etc. Even classic books like Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle or the novels of Barjavel are considered "littérature de gare".
"The current situation of SF and fantasy in France is way worse than in the US and the Anglosphere in general." I agree. Besides the names you mentioned there are no SF big names from France, despite there being lot of famous writers from France in general. Where I'm from. In Finland, the attitude of the "culture people" and the school teachers when I was in school was very much anti-scifi. Even books that win the Finnish SF book prizes are barely even SF these days, since it's controlled by the "culture people". The whole "culture people" scene here is basically a corruption scam anyway, where politicians from the leftist parties give grants to their personal friends with no artistic merit.
That anti-intellectualism has since become the cornerstone of British culture. Perhaps things are different in whichever parallel continuum PKD resides.
Mccartysme was heavy, and he was a victim of it... for British let's say England is an old French colony that turned out bad to paraphrase a Normand friend. Did you know the hymn of Queen Elizabeth was originally a chant for Louis XIV of France because he was saved from an anal fistula, the chant was named "Dieu sauve le roi", just like OSS 117 books 'inspired' James Bond 007 etc ;)
Amazing interview. I detected a little bit of Michael Crichton bashing. I guess PKD wasn’t fan of the andromeda strain at the very least. Sour grapes maybe. But both authors have had many adaptations made of their books. Sadly for PKD most were all after he died.
I can provide you with a audio cleaned verion which has none of the background chatter and hiss if you want it. Might be worth offering this copy up as a cleaner audio edition. Would you like me to send you over for your use free of charge.
@@baruyero i also tested it on the long speech version and it completely cleans off the clicky sounds so if you want i could go ahead and clean that one also.
OMG that is horrible to hear what he and others went through in the late 60s. To think he wasn't saddened by all he lost but elated to know he wasn't just being paranoid. Gaslighting was rampant back then.
Woody Allen similarly commends the French people for appreciating and funding him. James Baldwin, Jimi Hendrix and many other Afro-American artists have regularly expressed that they were taken seriously at all in France in particular, and Europe in general, compared with the strictly hierarchical, proto-totalitarian compliance culture of the USA.
He describes something I am only recently becoming aware of, which is the higher regard for SF books and movies, which are often given much more respect in Europe and Asia. This same bias worked against "Dune," a badly underrated movie.
Boy it makes alot of sense what he's sayin, intellectuals aren't allowed in a permisive society, because they don't want us to discover the truth about this matrix were living in , it's not in their interests what he's sayin is more relevent now than ever before especially now when are freedoms are goin down the shitter.
8:24 can anybody make out the first novel he mentions? The second one is The Red and the Black by Stendhal, the third one is Fathers and sons, but what is the first one? The automatic subtitles say "Mehta Bulgari", and I hear "Meta Burglary", but neither of these give any results.
He takes down Michael Crichton for writing the Andromeda Strain as being a retelling or extension of other writers' stories and thus essentially boring. Dick says what he writes is original. Both writers are great. But Dick also knowingly or unknowingly replicates stories of past writers. Take the magnificent "The man in the high castle" (1962). A brilliant work. But then look at "Bring the jubilee" (1953) by Ward Moore and similarities exist. It was written a decade earlier. It is also a great work.
the government was probably as overbearing and ignorant as it is today (probably less so) but I have a suspicion the reason he didnt get along with his neighbours was the drugs and the hippy stuff, and not so much about "intellectualism"...lots of creators got along fine in california during the same time period, from what I can gather.
Been reading about him, he had serious issues with drug abuse and traumatic experiences. Don't think it was mk ultra, he just had a troubled mind. He has made some of the best work of fiction of any writer.
Someone who possibly knew more than most of us about what we identify as reality. In truth we are all victims of mind control. Until we acknowledge it and decide no more we stay a victim.
@@AnahataOnline you are very wise to acknowledge this. From when we are children we have been mind controlled, one way or another, from our teachers yelling at us when we daydream to our parents telling us what religion we are. It is everywhere but as you say, when we are conscious of this we have a chance to change this. Love you all
Same for Kafka, Darger, Hubbard, Burroughs E.R. and W.S. Kubrick, Pynchon, and Lynch... Transmissions from elsewhere, at least. Must be something in the water.
Hah, 4 years previous to this my High School PALY had a course in "Science Fiction And Utopian Literature" taught by the late Barry Bergstrom. A great class. Methinks PKD dost complain too much. But the emphasis was not on his or Robert Silverberg's books, which should have been talked about. 1984 and Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Edgar Rice Burroughs were under discussion. In 7 years PKD will die, I was so sad.
7:00 - PKD is saying America is anti-intellectual, but that is disproven by the popularity of the silly show Star Trek, which had a lot of pretty amazing intellectual content and ideas. Americans were drawn to that, and it was considered subversive, so ... I think anyway, it was shut down by the censors. When it came back it was boring with no real ideas. And Star Trek itself was pretty simplistic, but Americans loved it. Same with music. Prior to about this time that PKD is being interviewed, music was very political and radical, and then we got Reggae and Rap. We had "agents" ( I say agents because that is what I think they were ) coming to our High Schools telling us what was going to be big. Then it was Punk Rock ... and pure ugliness, nothing of meaning. The American public were manipulated like hell, and today there is virtually nothing but modeling of how stupid people are supposed to behave and never to question anything.
I agree with you for the most part but that whole point on music was trash. Reggae, rap, punk rock, hardcore, metal all have artists with deep deep deep political messages and complex lyrics. Punk rock especially. Its SUPPOSED to be mean and raw and emotional. To say it has nothing of meaning is such an awful opinion and comes from ignorance.
@@alexanderredler862 >> Reggae, rap, punk rock, hardcore, metal all have artists with deep deep deep political messages and complex lyrics. I'm sorry but that is more or less a meaningless statement. I would say in the 60's and into the 70's that was true, but with both music, movies and TV lyrics and plots became about 95% meaningless nonsense . There is nothing memorable about punk rock, and even if some of it had something of meaning, the delivery was ugly and off-putting, and was mostly there so someone would say - see there is meaning in this ugly music.
@@justgivemethetruth The only thing I have to say to that is "Ok Boomer". You clearly don't even engage with any of the things that you or I listed to have any sort of real experience about the depth of their meaning and totally disregard it because you dont like how it sounds. Actually listen to the stuff you ignorantly hate on and form an informed opinion before spouting nonsense.
@@alexanderredler862 OK boomer ... you don't seem to be able to be original in your thoughts or control your feelings. The point is "to you" that stuff has meaning. I am not so self-centered as to think the media that I like is the center of the world, so you should be happy I gave you something to think about - because in the end as you get older your in-group of the media you buy evaporates and all you have left is everyone else - so insult us at your own peril.
@@justgivemethetruth Your entire argument that rap and punk is bad because you dont like it lol. Talk about an unoriginal thought jfc. Go listen to modern music you old coot.
Americans began to appreciate it when they realized that it would make them a lot of money. As a European I have always thought that you are very naive otherwise you wouldn't believe all the big lies that your rulers tell you
And 45 years later, we’re actually living in a complete government surveillance state.
Such a pleasure just to listen to someone speak articulately. Not one stammer or broken thought- or script.
For all the stories of madness, he seems unusually lucid and articulate.
Thats what im currently talking to my mother about. Perhaps schizophrenia, i know one and he is very calm like this. Ive listened to 3 of his interviews today.
Does it take a madman to write about mad people? I believe people can innately relate to mental illness and mental disorders because all sane people have those tendencies within them - not that they get expressed - but in potentiality.
@@jorgecarson9133 In my opinion it takes a madman for the madness described to be meaningful and on point. Otherwise the madness described would be just a prop in the narrative, in that case I'm not interested.
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Define “madman” and when you slap that label on the writer try without conjecture.
@@Ashtray-tq7mb "If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."
Depuis les années 70, J’ai lu et relu les livres de Dick tellement de fois.
Son sens de l’humour et son goût pour la musique sont semblables à ceux de Kubrick et mon rêve était que Kubrick mette en image un livre de Dick. Imaginez Ubik ou The three stigmata from Palmer Eldritch ou The penultimate truth porté au cinéma par Kubrick !
Rien que de citer ces titres me donne envie de les relire encore.
Dick est un écrivain majeur du XXème siècle.
Wish I had a friend like him.
Me too.
We have. His books
@@lenina666 Well said 👏
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I can't imagine the mankind sky whithout Philip K. Dick's star. His books talk us about our present, and i never be able to thank him enough for it. What great american story lessons! What mad world!
@Belarion A.D. el cielo donde brillan las luces de las obras de los grandes nombres de la humanidad (y que pueden servir de guías o faros) ?...or...el cielo de la humanidad ?
If i have understood your wish.
Translation is not so easy as It seems because "el cielo de la humanidad" don' t match so good.
And also as i think you may have seen, english is not my natural langage and i am not always sure of my writings and some unexpected meaning or fail.
Greetings.
I know Philip K. Dick since 1976 ( i was forteen) with Ubik and solar lotery (and the short story " Forster! You're dead" just before) in french version. The light and joy his work gives me at this time and following it's stronger as time went by.
@Belarion A.D. el firmamento! The same firmamento where Philip K. Dick stand with so much names along a long, long journey.
@Belarion A.D. i was thinking the same at the inverse because of the star (movie) systeme! Sorry! In spanish langage, sky and heaven can be mix, and a lot of time they are. Until the point where sky has almost substitute heaven for meaning heaven. I think it's maybe because that every time that somebody says "this is paradise" this is on earth! 👍
We are living in a pkd world. Time will prove him 💯 correct.
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The state of mind described by Dick : people without the ability to connect imagination with intellectual ideas - people today are also in this state, as seen by how easily minds are programmed to worship celebrities, various Elons (millionaires seemingly from nothing, yet their fathers owned diamond mines), etc., etc. - people are programmed not to think independently and not to be interested in ideas that are not fed to them by the state.
PKD's observation that America is anti-intellectual--the mainstream public--is still relevant and true. We're not interested in philosophy, history, but most of all, not interested in theory, only in the pragmatic, the "practical," which is what you would expect from a resource colony and all-stop-shop-nightmare-of-an-economy.
Or fame, control, money and guns if you want my European opinion
yes why is american so anti intellecutual > still .
@@shawnpalmer6715 Ingrained stupidity.
Which why USA is doomed
@@KINGD1991 You could very well be right.
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. As a former Berkeley resident, I certainly understand his sensibilities!
Love this, what a fascinating guy his stories are fkn amazing full of kibble and Specials and of brillianlt executed confusion of realities
Many thanks for sharing, I know the main Metz 1977 footage but didn't know this existed. He was such a decent human being, always on the side of the "little people" and he simultaneously saw further than most writers. The fact that he struggled for most of his life financially until the late 70s and died just before Blade Runner blew up his name feels so unfair.
It really does seem so unfair. Such is the fate of tortured soul of a great artist.
At least he met he's public before he died. Us, French people !!! 😀✌️🐓🇨🇵💗
Maybe his knowledge, insight and truth was treason in a land of lies and deception…
I wonder how Phil would have dealt with the sort of fame that would have followed him post Blade Runner?
maybe it seems unfair for those that think this specific time plane is the best possible existence. PKD clearly didn't think so. i'm not sure you understand his ideas.
It's so interesting hearing him talk about the prestige of science fiction and of his work as someone that has spent the majority of the last 4 years writing about him. I watch the video regularly and find it deeply comforting for some reason.
That's really nice to hear. I am deeply moved by his views, so far as he spoke publicly of them. I believe his view, of how multiple dimensions may conditionally interact/separate due to causal forces of probabilistic outcome, is correct. Dick is just too articulate, he catches these things in his powers of insight..
I would even say, in regards to this timeline, the outcomes did not favor his support.
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A writer of genius!, capable of creating a unique atmosphere.
Indeed. Well said!
Definitely a writer people should read.
Priceless
Respect owed to all janitors out there. Thank you for your hard work!
A most humble and succinct gentleman i note.
Thank you for not allowing pop culture to influence you. Thank goodness you were here with us. Be yourself.
In his life he was considered ahead of time in thought and creative output. A threat to what was considered to the Amercian way of life in other words 'Cold War politics '.
P.K. Dick is one of the the most consistently original Si-Fi authors that I know.
And boy oh boy has that anti-intellectualism increased here in the US.
Indeed....I have a large library, and people say the dumbest things.....one asked 'do you have paper books'...i said yes, reply 'you are an artifact'...lol...
different times. back then political discussions were also on another level and although they had opposite views they respected each other.
No shit.
@@marclayne9261 keep reading :)
@@TuranciHareket
They didn’t all respect one another.
There were much wider divides, in many cultural and societal ways.
Man in High Castle is straight up genius
So true, so true!
Is the series any good?
Haven’t watched series yet Hans
@@shayf83 No worries.
Flow my tears, the police man said is brilliant too and some short stories as well.
This man is a genius,as was Arthur C Clark, Phillipe Jose Farmer ,frank Herbert and Issac Asimov.
They’re accused of writing juvenile stories but they’re all well-practiced true philosophers!
PKD is my all-time besty❤
He was a great writer.
Today is March 2, 2022. Philip K. Dick died today 40 years ago on March 2, 1982
Literally my moms death day exactly . I don’t think it’s a coincidence I found him 😢
one of my favorite geniuses
People say science fiction is juvenile but it’s all real philosophy, exploring social, economic, religious, anthropological and many other themes exploring the human condition with much thought.
I have never read his work but I have an interest in his ideas. Well spoken, well thought about
Very good.
Give reading it a try. You will not be disappointed. Recommend a scanner darkly
@@squampsdo Android dream of electric sheep was my first novel I ever read. The rest is history..his books are fuckin funny af
I love this guy. I recall having read Ubik at some point in high-school and remember nil about it. But I think I'll first read his biography before I go to his work.
This is amazing !!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for bringing it to YT !!!!!
Bob Dylan also sang this about PKDs "paranoia"...
" Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row "
God bless you, Brother!!
Baudelaire, was first major writer, to translate & promote works of Edgar Allan Poe...
Very insightful interview
PKD is such a badass. Hug influence in my works as a crap artist.
He also influenced my career as an electric sheep.
Thanks for posting this. I am doing some scholarly work on PKD and this helped me understand his personality more. Much love.
Coolest person I've seen in a while.
The Center for Christ Consciousness defines it as "the highest state of intellectual development and emotional maturity". It can also be described as a state of awareness of one's true nature, higher self, and birthright as a multi-dimensional soul.....That's what Philip K. Dick was and they knew it ....mind blowing this C.I.A information is coming out now . declassified
thank you so much for posting this!!!
The covers of PKD's European books were really great. It's kind of sad that around the time he is taping this interview all the books stores in my area have pretty large Science Fiction sections ... like 5 or 6 feet high 8-12 feet wide.
You should see the ones from Fanucci (italian editor), they are stunning
@@dormin2749 not kidding
have a look at the Italian Valis
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Ironically, he's explaining the effect of dystopian centralised control over our public systems.
I don't see much irony as much as prophecy: he is basically always on the side of the ordinary, even small man, being crushed by the (dystopian) governments' boot.
The current situation of SF and fantasy in France is way worse than in the US and the Anglosphere in general. Philp K. Dick, Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Asimov, Frank Herbert, Gene Wolfe, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman are regarded as great writers, they have won important literary prizes, many of then are part of the Library of America or other "classics" collections. In France there's no single speculative fiction writer which is taken seriously. None has won the Prix Goncourt or the Medici or any other prize, none has enter the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (the only one I can think of is Jules Verne), they don't even have the "right" to be part of normal paperback collections like folio, the blanche collection from Gallimard, etc. Even classic books like Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle or the novels of Barjavel are considered "littérature de gare".
"The current situation of SF and fantasy in France is way worse than in the US and the Anglosphere in general."
I agree. Besides the names you mentioned there are no SF big names from France, despite there being lot of famous writers from France in general.
Where I'm from. In Finland, the attitude of the "culture people" and the school teachers when I was in school was very much anti-scifi. Even books that win the Finnish SF book prizes are barely even SF these days, since it's controlled by the "culture people". The whole "culture people" scene here is basically a corruption scam anyway, where politicians from the leftist parties give grants to their personal friends with no artistic merit.
Someone said no one is a prophet in his homeland
Or in his timeline, the future will definitely appreciate him...
Yeah cointelpro was not abandoned
A real life against totalitarism
That anti-intellectualism has since become the cornerstone of British culture. Perhaps things are different in whichever parallel continuum PKD resides.
Mccartysme was heavy, and he was a victim of it... for British let's say England is an old French colony that turned out bad to paraphrase a Normand friend.
Did you know the hymn of Queen Elizabeth was originally a chant for Louis XIV of France because he was saved from an anal fistula, the chant was named "Dieu sauve le roi", just like OSS 117 books 'inspired' James Bond 007 etc ;)
Amazing interview. I detected a little bit of Michael Crichton bashing. I guess PKD wasn’t fan of the andromeda strain at the very least. Sour grapes maybe. But both authors have had many adaptations made of their books. Sadly for PKD most were all after he died.
I can provide you with a audio cleaned verion which has none of the background chatter and hiss if you want it. Might be worth offering this copy up as a cleaner audio edition. Would you like me to send you over for your use free of charge.
Hi thanks that would be great I can put together video and the new audio and make a new upload. Many thanks!
@@baruyero i also tested it on the long speech version and it completely cleans off the clicky sounds so if you want i could go ahead and clean that one also.
did you like the edit. I can apply to the longer speech of you want me to ?
Indictment here in the new century. Wow!
🕊
History was written by the Winners...
OMG that is horrible to hear what he and others went through in the late 60s. To think he wasn't saddened by all he lost but elated to know he wasn't just being paranoid. Gaslighting was rampant back then.
Woody Allen similarly commends the French people for appreciating and funding him.
James Baldwin, Jimi Hendrix and many other Afro-American artists have regularly expressed that they were taken seriously at all in France in particular, and Europe in general, compared with the strictly hierarchical, proto-totalitarian compliance culture of the USA.
Kubrick too
December 16th - Happy Birthday to PKD.
Science fiction is often cutting edge future predictions… mind expanding stuff, in my opinion.
Deep!
Philip Dick were a great writer.
So was Orson Welles.
@@tammyw.5781 His viewpoint was cyberpunk distopia. I don't agree.
He describes something I am only recently becoming aware of, which is the higher regard for SF books and movies, which are often given much more respect in Europe and Asia. This same bias worked against "Dune," a badly underrated movie.
This is just three years after his cosmic pink blowout
I wish everyone could wake up all of us to get to track c
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
or do they just count them to fall asleep?
Sometimes its not the answer, but asking the question, that matters.
This is like a koan question... post your answers here
Subterranean Homesick Blues ...12:27
wow. insane he had to put up with that bs.
1977...westerns in space...basically nailing Star Wars for ruining everything....
"it was a term of derision."
Which books does he say are his favorites at 8:24? The Red and the Black, and what else?
Tuguenev's "Fathers and sons" and Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".
@@baruyero Thanks!
Boy it makes alot of sense what he's sayin, intellectuals aren't allowed in a permisive society, because they don't want us to discover the truth about this matrix were living in , it's not in their interests what he's sayin is more relevent now than ever before especially now when are freedoms are goin down the shitter.
Ok obvious troll
wonder what he would think of america today?
Canary in the coalmine
8:24 can anybody make out the first novel he mentions? The second one is The Red and the Black by Stendhal, the third one is Fathers and sons, but what is the first one? The automatic subtitles say "Mehta Bulgari", and I hear "Meta Burglary", but neither of these give any results.
madame bovary by Flaubert
@@maxl5029 thanks!
Did he mention which culture was Pro Intellectual?
then star wars came out
Piers Anthony
Was good too
He takes down Michael Crichton for writing the Andromeda Strain as being a retelling or extension of other writers' stories and thus essentially boring. Dick says what he writes is original.
Both writers are great. But Dick also knowingly or unknowingly replicates stories of past writers. Take the magnificent "The man in the high castle" (1962). A brilliant work.
But then look at "Bring the jubilee" (1953) by Ward Moore and similarities exist. It was written a decade earlier. It is also a great work.
Thanks for the reference.
He also liked lifting an occasional Agatha Christie plot ;D
the government was probably as overbearing and ignorant as it is today (probably less so) but I have a suspicion the reason he didnt get along with his neighbours was the drugs and the hippy stuff, and not so much about "intellectualism"...lots of creators got along fine in california during the same time period, from what I can gather.
He had brilliant ideas, but it's very hard to appreciate his writing style. Maybe it translated into French better.
5:37
He sounds like an MK ultra victim. He might have been.
Been reading about him, he had serious issues with drug abuse and traumatic experiences. Don't think it was mk ultra, he just had a troubled mind. He has made some of the best work of fiction of any writer.
Someone who possibly knew more than most of us about what we identify as reality. In truth we are all victims of mind control. Until we acknowledge it and decide no more we stay a victim.
@@AnahataOnline you are very wise to acknowledge this. From when we are children we have been mind controlled, one way or another, from our teachers yelling at us when we daydream to our parents telling us what religion we are. It is everywhere but as you say, when we are conscious of this we have a chance to change this.
Love you all
Interesting take.
Same for Kafka, Darger, Hubbard, Burroughs E.R. and W.S. Kubrick, Pynchon, and Lynch... Transmissions from elsewhere, at least. Must be something in the water.
Translation: Star Wars is shit.
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An author no longer sells his books.
He sells copies of his books.
ALL manufactured goods are copies of prototypes.
what does that mean?
@@justgivemethetruth i think he referring to Simulacrum
15:10 Sounds like American KGBs.
Is that John Lennon?
You read the title?
No, John Legend*, prolific scientifiction writer and r&b songbird.
the grass is allways greener
Especially when it is.
Alot of his writings reflect the paranoia of the 60,s and the Nixon administration.
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Hah, 4 years previous to this my High School PALY had a course in "Science Fiction And Utopian Literature" taught by the late Barry Bergstrom. A great class. Methinks PKD dost complain too much. But the emphasis was not on his or Robert Silverberg's books, which should have been talked about. 1984 and Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Edgar Rice Burroughs were under discussion. In 7 years PKD will die, I was so sad.
He was clearly a DS actor
7:00 - PKD is saying America is anti-intellectual, but that is disproven by the popularity of the silly show Star Trek, which had a lot of pretty amazing intellectual content and ideas. Americans were drawn to that, and it was considered subversive, so ... I think anyway, it was shut down by the censors. When it came back it was boring with no real ideas. And Star Trek itself was pretty simplistic, but Americans loved it. Same with music. Prior to about this time that PKD is being interviewed, music was very political and radical, and then we got Reggae and Rap. We had "agents" ( I say agents because that is what I think they were ) coming to our High Schools telling us what was going to be big. Then it was Punk Rock ... and pure ugliness, nothing of meaning. The American public were manipulated like hell, and today there is virtually nothing but modeling of how stupid people are supposed to behave and never to question anything.
I agree with you for the most part but that whole point on music was trash. Reggae, rap, punk rock, hardcore, metal all have artists with deep deep deep political messages and complex lyrics. Punk rock especially. Its SUPPOSED to be mean and raw and emotional. To say it has nothing of meaning is such an awful opinion and comes from ignorance.
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>> Reggae, rap, punk rock, hardcore, metal all have artists with deep deep deep political messages and complex lyrics.
I'm sorry but that is more or less a meaningless statement. I would say in the 60's and into the 70's that was true, but with both music, movies and TV lyrics and plots became about 95% meaningless nonsense . There is nothing memorable about punk rock, and even if some of it had something of meaning, the delivery was ugly and off-putting, and was mostly there so someone would say - see there is meaning in this ugly music.
@@justgivemethetruth The only thing I have to say to that is "Ok Boomer". You clearly don't even engage with any of the things that you or I listed to have any sort of real experience about the depth of their meaning and totally disregard it because you dont like how it sounds. Actually listen to the stuff you ignorantly hate on and form an informed opinion before spouting nonsense.
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OK boomer ... you don't seem to be able to be original in your thoughts or control your feelings. The point is "to you" that stuff has meaning. I am not so self-centered as to think the media that I like is the center of the world, so you should be happy I gave you something to think about - because in the end as you get older your in-group of the media you buy evaporates and all you have left is everyone else - so insult us at your own peril.
@@justgivemethetruth Your entire argument that rap and punk is bad because you dont like it lol. Talk about an unoriginal thought jfc. Go listen to modern music you old coot.
most sci fi is shit tbh
Lmao tipical fluf coming from a unknown complaining 🤣 when almost everything this guy says is obviously not true
Americans began to appreciate it when they realized that it would make them a lot of money. As a European I have always thought that you are very naive otherwise you wouldn't believe all the big lies that your rulers tell you
Total victim of 60s psychedelics and propaganda/gov psy-ops.
As are most people over 70 years of age.