Earlier I read this essay by Philip K Dick, Cosmogony and Cosmology ::. And by read it, I mean that I had my computer read it to me using a text-to-speech program. Goddamn did it take a long time, and I fell asleep in the middle of it. Or at least seriously spaced the fuck out. Even for him, this is an especially difficult and obtuse text. I did however, want to include the following passage:

“The ultimate lesson learned comes when the teaching machine (or the teacher) is denied, is repudiated. Until that moment comes (if for some of us it ever does) we remain enslaved by the teaching machine — without even being aware of it, having known no other condition.

Therefore the series of lessons by the artifact are intended to lead to a revolt against the tyranny of the artifact itself, a paradox. It is serving the Urgrund by ultimately bringing us to the Urgrund. This is what is called in theological terminology ‘the secret partnership,’ which is found in the religions of Egypt and India. Gods who appear to combat each other are, on the transmundane plane, colluding for the same goal. I believe this to be the case here. The artifact enslaves us, but on the other hand it is attempting to teach us to throw off its enslavement. It will never tell us to disobey it. You cannot order someone to disobey you; that is both semantically and functionally impossible.”

The artifact, as described above, is equated with the Gnostic idea of the Demiurge. While, by the Urgrund, he’s talking about God. I’m not gonna try and describe any more than that though. This is a deep fucking essay.