Simulist wrote:
- "Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans. It is just a very large version of Disneyland. You can have the Pirate Ride or the Lincoln Simulacrum or Mr. Toad's Wild Ride—you can have all of them, but none is true."
— Philip K. Dick, from "How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later," 1978
That is one hell of an appropriate quote.
When I visit my Dad, I realize he is literally living in a different universe than I am. A fake one. But then most people are living in a fake universe, even friends of mine who are closer to me on the political/reality spectrum, they're still living in the universe largely created by the corporate media, NPR, Jon Stewart and the like.
You can have the Obama Is Good Ride, or the Obama is a Kenyan Socialist Ride, or the Sarah Palin is a Good Honest American ride, or the Gays Want To Convert Your Children Ride, or the Government is Incompetent Ride ......
