I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this concept put forth in Philip K. Dick’s essay, “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later“. It’s this idea of “fake fakes”. Basically, he has this theory about God, that was God is, and what God does is God goes out into the universe, and replaces things that are fake with things that are unreal, fake fakes, basically. Here’s the pivotal paragraph in that essay:

In my writing I got so interested in fakes that I finally came up with the concept of fake fakes. For example, in Disneyland there are fake birds worked by electric motors which emit caws and shrieks as you pass by them. Suppose some night all of us sneaked into the park with real birds and substituted them for the artificial ones. Imagine the horror the Disneyland officials would feel when they discovered the cruel hoax. Real birds! And perhaps someday even real hippos and lions. Consternation. The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces. For instance, suppose the Matterhorn turned into a genuine snow-covered mountain? What if the entire place, by a miracle of God’s power and wisdom, was changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, into something incorruptible? They would have to close down.

Anyway, that’s pretty much my favorite way I’ve ever heard of thinking about what God is all about.