Even though I think http://htmlgiant.com is filled with freaks, sinecure chasers and all around literary fucks; I sometimes encounter a writer I enjoy there. Yesterday was not one of those days. Have you heard of this fucker Maxi Kim? I have not. The first composition I ever read from the fucker was here: http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/two-or-three-ways-to-resurrect-philip-k-dick and as you can imagine, it made me berserk. Have you ever witnessed a thoughtcrime before? You would try to interfere to stop a rape, or a murder; if you care about ideas, why do you permit thoughtcrime to be unchallenged? I know, because you don't want to be a radioactive social pariah like Wessington. Well that's fine. I am your literary Jesus and I will receive malice and lower my social standing with institutional writers in order to speak the truth to motherfuckers.
I will not recap my argument because it was hella slick and you deserve to read my righteous anger, unedited. Here it is. Enjoy.
"Whenever I see academic types who
otherwise have no interest in science fiction bring up PKD, I groan.
Your review of course demonstrates no understanding at all of the
hobbiest culture that was the commercial sci-fi market back in the
mid 20th century. You bring up Lacan, Islam, Zizek; all
this fucking shit, and completely ignore obsessive compulsion, the I
Ching, determinism versus free will, and the root of it all, a fear
of solipsism that serves as unifying theme in Dick's writing; in an
attempt to 'legitimize' Dick to whatever degenerate and desiccated
reading circles you've decided is your target audience. What rookie
writing! This is not about Dick. This is about using a book review of
Dick as a thin pretext to talk about your post-structuralist
bullshit. Who the fuck do you think you are? Do you really think that
people don't notice? Fuck you! Seriously!
You start off by milking 3 paragraphs
saying that Dick was interested in God. I said that in 1 sentence and
also managed to insert a snipe. You spend so much time trying to
prove your judgments that your arc of reasoning is pathetically
short. I think you haven't even familiarized yourself with Dick's own
writings on himself. For example, in “Schizophrenia & The Book
of Changes” Dick outlines that he is not motivated by what
simpletons like you would consider to be 'the two logics' or really
anything you might consider logic. He is obsessed with EPISTEMOLOGY!
It's a totally different matter. You don't even need to read the
whole damned essay, he declares it in the first paragraph: “...a
newborn individual is more or less thrust out into the koinos kosmos
(the shared world) immediately... a human child, at birth, still has
years of a kind of semireal existence ahead of him: semireal in the
sense that until he is fifteen or sixteen years old he is able to
some degree to remain not thoroughly born...” The binary is not
between logics, it's between dreaming and awaking! His problems are
all solipsistic in origin.
You can say, “Oh, someone else did it
better, I'd rather wank in PKD's direction, because I have nothing
new to add” but that's a total cop out. You can summarize and
pivot, but you didn't. Jameson is a fucking blowhard, and presuming
that just because he was thorough that he was accurate is moronic.
You decided to start on a specious premise and then went all out. I
am pretty damned certain you've never even read the guy. In addition,
I think it's safe to say you don't know any of his peers, who are
equally 'literary,' such as Brian Aldiss, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert
Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, and so forth. I have no clue why you even
decided you had something worth writing on PKD. Did you just see
Doctor Atomic or something? What the fuck kind of thesis is 'At the
sight of this, PKD was so freaked out it changed his concept of God
and reality?' It's almost like you've never read the man's writing
and are trying to fill your review up with other examples of your
erudition. You want this essay to be about Abrahamic religions and
patriarchy and Lacan and you pretty much smear your Ivy League
scented feces all over PKD's legacy. What initially induced rage in
me now incites a smile. You really thought you could pull this
horseshit off. I can just see you thinking “I'm going to fool them
all,” because you think we're all as stupid as your college GTF or
something? OMFG!
http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/two-or-three-ways-to-resurrect-philip-k-dick/#disqus_thread
Don't let thought criminals perpetuate their specious attempts at 'reasoning' in the literary sphere. Fight them wherever they are, or literature as you know it and love it will DIE.
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