Philip K Dick: Spurious Realities, Fake News, NPCs, and Authentic Humans

"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" - Philip K. Dick's 1978 speech about being a science fiction author and the dangers of spurious reality. In this video I explore Dick's ideas about spurious realities and inauthentic humans, and how that relates to the conversation about fake news and the NPC meme.

Link to the speech - https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html

Philip K. Dick was a science fiction author whose work is the inspiration of many well know movies, included Bladerunner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Screamers, and many more. His book, 'The Man in the High Castle' was also the inspiration for the Amazon series of the same name.
In his work, Dick constantly plays with the idea of reality. What is real? What is reality? And in exploring these ideas, his characters frequently encounter situations that turns their world upside down.