Dick’s behavior indicated knowledge, but his explanation for it was, frankly, not something one would expect from a sane person, and there were other delusional beliefs, amounting to the continuation of the Roman Empire and a fabricated world history. For all people talk about, the content of his delusions was not new.
Read MoreIn my thinking, this hinges upon the “black pill”, which I’m explaining as a coincidence of despair and conspiratorial thinking (there may be other aspects, but I think this is the formation.) The mutant epistemology of conspiratorial thinking provides an explanation for the despair and a supposed pathway out of it, but this is a snare. It only leads deeper into the mire.
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