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Debunking Philip K. Dick
I just had a flash of inspiration! We should try to collectively goad fundamentalist Christians into concocting elaborate debunkings of the Christian aspects of Philip K. Dick’s writings. Think of the utter madness that would ensue. That right there might be the actual key to the Apocalypse, the Breaking of the Seventh Seal.
If you haven’t noticed, Christians have been having a field day for years now debunking The Da Vinci Code. Clearly, this is because the book threatens the story-system which the majority of meanstream Christian churches adhere to, and the social, financial and power structures built on top of that.
And it’s all just because people are entertaining the idea that Jesus knocked Mary Magdalene up. Think of how much more threatening Philip K. Dick’s take on Christianity really would be, were it fully understood by these same people: it would rock power structures to their core, rousing armies of Secret Gray Robed Christians from their slumber. Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, of course, doesn’t claim to be actually true. It is fiction disguised as history - the unreal masquerading as the real. Dick, on the other hand, again and again stated that his revelations were true: that they were history disguised as fiction - the real masquerading as the unreal.
That right there may be the difference: if you probe Brown’s work deeply, you uncover un-truths, factual distortions, lies and fabrications. There is a vested interest among those in power to keep people occluded by lies and mired in half-truths - hence we see people so excited about stripping bare the Davinci Code. On the other hand, if you probe Dick’s work, you stumble over mythical and mystical truths, which cut through lies and fabrications, which restore reality where it was lost. Or that’s the theory anyway.
So how can we convince fundamentalist Christians on a massive scale to take up the anti-Dick crusade? Can it be done and what would be the result? Would the Logos, the viral-plasmate, hidden within his work replicate itself across our illusory landscape, healing and transforming the hollow false Christians into true disciples of the Real God? Or would they hideously warp his message into something totally abhorrent? Maybe we should all start aggressively writing letters to pastors and commenting on Christian blogs across the land to incite them to root out the “evil” of Philip K. Dick as effectively as they have battled the “heresies” of Harry Potter and Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. Cause ultimately, you and I know that by these people’s constant attacks, they’ve only served to further build up the things they are fighting against. Maybe we can get them to inadvertently help us with out work - whatever that work may be…
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March 12th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
that’s nuts! i like it. unfortunately i have to wonder if pkd could ever become a pop culture phenomenon on the order of the da vinci code. but you know, if somone wrote an easily digestible novel called “the VALIS code” in which a couple of people take a romp through the territory of the ancient roman empire uncovering dodgy historical “facts” about archontic conspiracy and a secretive christian “aramchek” resistance movement, as well as iconographic evidence of an ancient satellite communicating with the gnostics via pink beams (and it was as cleverly written and suspenseful as the da vinci code)… then we’d be on the brink of some kind of spiritual revolution. maybe.
March 12th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Instigator
I like it!
March 12th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
I honsetly don;t think the folks are intelligent and well-red enough to even follow a PKD book…I can see brains exploding even now!
When I read Valis, I understood for the first time that mental states are transferrable through reading/writing. I was left in an altered state for several days; I questioned my sanity and wondered if PKD had transferred his “madness” to me.
Can u imagine Falwell or Robertson having that happen to the, or any of the other fundie bastards?
March 12th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Absolutely! And those guys are really smart, in my opinion. Even though they’re creepy!
March 12th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Hey Tim - didn’t I propose goading Jack Chick into attacking Gnosticism last year? These enterprises take much careful planning.
March 12th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
That’s the way I felt after I finished the Exegesis… what Phil was trying to get at led him on a kind of benzine feedback loop, IMO- and after reading his notes the “horizontal hold of my reasoning “would keep slipping.
yeah! Slip a copy under the door of Pat Robertson’s stall…
March 12th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
those boys aren`t going to go for such simple subterfuge………….don`t forget that robetson plays on a number of different levels. he threatened chavez for g.w.b. while wearing his mad fundy hat. you need to start at the grass roots level with people stupid enough to charge at red capes. presbyterian sunday school teachers would be my suggestion. it would need door-to-door type campaignng though. like the mormons. jack chick might be a good target because he`s a media whore, he might get blindsided by some well crafted approach………a comic book making fun of his comic books…….hmmmmmm……..using r.crumb style………..with pkd doing the mr.natural as an editorial theme weaving through the story boards. hell, you could invite the freak brothers and fritz the cat too.
smoking bible pages to see if you get high…………………………………………..
March 13th, 2006 at 12:02 am
and seeing visions of a satellite in geosynchronous orbit beaming images of neuro-google networks all making some kind of sense……….fuck, i dropped the joint. did you see where it went? stop the car……….shit i think the seats burning. stop the car man,my ass is on fire…….fuck.
March 13th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Sparkwidget:
You certainly did. I remember it. I guess my thing with Philip K. Dick would be on a different scale, and would mainly revolve around the notion that Dick is such a mindfuck that if you tangle with him in any way, you get “laid” so to speak.
Joe Chip:
I THINK YOU’RE ON TO SOMETHING. It’s like, if we used PKD as the “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” and then distilled it down via a super-simple formula in a tasty pop format. Blam!
March 13th, 2006 at 11:23 am
with tom cruise as the hero……………..?
March 13th, 2006 at 11:24 am
dan brown and his lawyers are watching another team of lawyers programming a judge right now…………………..
March 13th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
i think this idea is rad. the thing is, i don’t think they’d find any major challenges to christian thought in pkd unless we somehow managed to get pkd into popular culture to the extent that the da vinci code is. like, if oprah put ’scanner’ onto her book club when the movie comes out.
the xians latched onto dan brown because he’s uber-popular. i think pkd’s probably a little too obscure for them as he currently stands. then there’s the issue of his estate, which has kind of a death-grip on his stuff, his name, his title, etc. plus, we’d also have to be careful of what we wished for, ’cause there’s some dirt out there on PKD– for instance, was virulently pro-life. he even wrote a story about a future dystopia in which parents were ‘aborting’ their children up to the age of thirteen. the xians would probably *like* that about him . . . .
March 13th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
You can use that to your advantage. Use the pro-life schtick to sucker them into reading it. “Secret Grey Robed Christians Pro-Life Movement” or some such novel, would probably work to get them involved.
I think you’d have to do it Dan-Brown style. There’s a whole mysterious section of the Exegesis that no one’s ever seen. There’s a bit of it that we can make reference to. If we had a literature professor, who travels to california to see if he can make sense of PKD’s reference to “Grey Robed Christians…”
March 15th, 2006 at 12:43 am
Perhaps “I recently discovered that the ’sci-fi’ movie Bladerunner is based on a novel. Imagine my horror when reading the book, to discover little more than a thinly desguised attack on Christian values! How many innocent young…. ” etc