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The Dystopian Character of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick in his worldview, why do checks and balances fail in a democracy? How do things go wrong? Right? What's the actual problem? So he has this, you know, he clearly he's got this very strong paranoid streak. Everything is about Richard Nixon, which I suppose is not unreasonable given the way that the world is. He gets much, much better than his sense of politics as such are for that matter than a sense of character.