The flight from Buenos Aires reminded me that I'm getting more and more sick of long flights. Ironic that I just wrote new short-shorts about memory editing (bcifi.org).
Speaking of scifi, I saw a video with a talk from Philip K. Dick, one of the great sci fi writers ever. Good title:
"If you think this world is bad, you should see some of the others."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbYiXyRZjM
It kinda made sense for the first few minutes. Effective metaphor with replacing pictures. I then spent a few more minutes wondering if I was just too dumb to understand him or he's just insane. The rest of his talk, I just mentally composed new ways to express his insanity. That guy took one amphetamine too many. One after another.
He had sodium pentothal, which triggered memories of alternate universes he experienced. He said The Man in the High Castle and Flow my Tears the Policeman said were nonfiction; they're both in the same "Track B" universe that is worse than ours. He was very proud because his alternate self fought against evil in this other universe and apparently died in action.
Around 11:45, he talks about "The Matrix world" and I wonder if that influenced the Matrix movies. His talk was in 1977; he mentioned he had seen Star Wars that morning. He had a lot of futuristic gibberish about reprogramming, lateral time, and dreaming at a subcortical level. Oh yeah, speaking of mind/brain references:
That guy is nuttier than his own last name.
He had more screws loose than the Boeing I flew home.
Wackier than a teenager with his first dirty magazine.
He's madder than a March wig.
Loopier than the Kellogg's factory.
Battier than Carlsbad Caverns.
Further out in left field than the stadium parking lot.
Daffier and Goofier than all of Disney.
His mind is more twisted than all of his DNA combined.
He is more certifiable than all cattle.
More off his rocker than granny right after a nuke.
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