Bogish Persintintisms
Do you believe in fate? Are our lives predestined? If you knew what lay ahead would you take action to change it? For a long time, science fiction was regarded as an ignoble layman's art. The analytics of prediction, educated postulation and social commentary were regarded as a child's medium. We've seen this disregard again with comics, rock n' roll and other mediums. So why are people so resistant to change? They fear what fate has dictated- the central theme of Philip K. Dick's " Galactic Pot Healer ." Some back story: I picked up this book about a year ago at an estate sale. This is a bizarre, but practical event wherein a deceased person's home is treated as a department store. You walk from room to room picking out items you'd like to keep and pay at the register on the way out. I came out with a badass pair of sheepskin slippers and a hardcover of " Galactic Pot Healer ." GPH is not a 21st century marijuana manifesto. It's one ...
