"He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation." - Philip K. Dick, 'A Scanner Darkly'.
I’m grateful to Eric Edelman for introducing me on yesterday’s podcast to Dick’s concept of “contact lunacy.” as we wrestle with the question: How do we explain the apparently inexora…
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