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I believe The Three Stigmata was the first PKD novel I ever read. Someone else might reference it in a post on post-humanism and post-humanist billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. It's Musk who's got a hard-on for the colonization of Mars, which is where PKD's characters spend their days transubstantiating with Perky Pat and her boyfriend. In the novel, it's posited that Palmer Eldritch is a surrogate for beings from, I think, Proxima Centauri, and it seems fairly plausible that Musk is a surrogate for a being from the Russian Federation.

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Dec 13, 2023·edited Dec 13, 2023Liked by Ann Kjellberg

Hi, Peter. Well, his rocket would explode on the launchpad. Not an intelligent person.

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Yeah, but an army of cognitively challenged youngsters would Tweet that he MEANT it to explode.

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Exploding on the launchpad, the way we live now.

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