Philip K. Dick: “If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others”

The speech spanned the styles that specify Penis’s work and likewise his life: visionary experiences, déjà vu, the simulation hypothesis, and the nature of truth. Far fucking out.

The subject of this speech is a subject which has been discovered just recently, and which might not exist all. I may be talking about something that does not exist. I’m free to say whatever and nothing. I in my stories and books in some cases write about fake worlds. Semi-real worlds along with psychopathic private worlds, lived in typically by just someone … At no time did I have a theoretical or conscious description for my fixation with these pluriform pseudo-worlds, and now I believe I understand. What I was picking up was the manifold of partly actualized realities lying tangent to what obviously is one of the most actualized one– the one that most of us, by consensus gentium, agree on.

We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we need to it is when some variable is altered, and some alteration in our truth takes place. We would have the overwhelming impression that we were re-living the present – familiarity – maybe in precisely the same method: hearing the same words, saying the same words. I submit that these impressions stand and substantial, and I will even say this: such an impression is an idea, that in some past time-point, a variable was altered – re-programmed as it were – which since of this, an alternative world branched off.

I believe I know a terrific trick. When the work of restoration is finished, we will not even keep in mind the tyrannies, the cruel barbarisms of the Earth we populated … the large body of discomfort and sorrow and loss and disappointment within us will be expunged as if it had actually never been.

( via r/ObscureMedia)