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June 11, 2004

Thus ends my two-week-long fixation with Dick...

In honor of my just having e-mailed off my two hideous Philip K. Dick essays, thus ending my quarter's work and signifying the official start of my summer, enjoy this quote (circa 1981) from Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words, a collection of transcribed interviews with the author:

"The moment you know dissent is regarded as treason, you know right away you've got totalitarianism, and then it's incumbent on your to dissent your ass off. Just protest everything. At that point, a really moral person, once he notices that trend, of the equating of dissent and treason, has a moral obligation to oppose the authorities."

I'm glad we don't live under those sorts of conditions today. Whew!

Posted by patrick at June 11, 2004 05:39 AM

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