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minus-squareperishthethought@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·2 days agoI’m reading a book by Philip K. Dick (“Ubik”), where everything in the fictional future is coin operated: doors, toasters, showers, everything. Feels like he either predicted this world we live in, or caused it.
minus-squarePrime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoAmazing book, btw. Like one long fever dream.
minus-squareperishthethought@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI’m like 3/4 of the way through it and yes. I’m surprised at all the turns it’s taken already and just how floaty the characters are. Probably a lot of parallels with how I understand the author’s life got in the 60s. ☮
minus-squareyunxiaoli@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoIf you think that’s amazing there was this guy in the mid 1800s that was a penpal of president Lincoln that predicted the hell we currently live in.
minus-squareAcamon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 day agoWho was that? Or any more details? I’m intrigued! Edit: do you just mean marx? That’s less intriguing, not wrong, but less intriguing.
minus-squareyunxiaoli@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day ago as with any source of insight from the 1800s, It was Marx
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I’m reading a book by Philip K. Dick (“Ubik”), where everything in the fictional future is coin operated: doors, toasters, showers, everything.
Feels like he either predicted this world we live in, or caused it.
Amazing book, btw. Like one long fever dream.
I’m like 3/4 of the way through it and yes. I’m surprised at all the turns it’s taken already and just how floaty the characters are. Probably a lot of parallels with how I understand the author’s life got in the 60s. ☮
If you think that’s amazing there was this guy in the mid 1800s that was a penpal of president Lincoln that predicted the hell we currently live in.
Who was that? Or any more details? I’m intrigued!
Edit: do you just mean marx? That’s less intriguing, not wrong, but less intriguing.
as with any source of insight from the 1800s,
It was Marx
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