Mock on, mock on, Voltaire — the title of Philip K. Dick’s 1977 essay is a stunning, one-line, anti-Candide: “If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others”.
A thought to carry into the new year —
(& in case we’ve forgotten, PKD was a Christian: “Dick drifted away from the life of the church, although he continued to refer to himself as a Christian & Episcopalian, & remained fascinated by the themes & tropes of Christianity for the rest of his life.”)
D. L. Dusenbury 