{"id":73,"date":"2008-06-01T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=73"},"modified":"2012-11-12T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T01:48:17","slug":"a-scanner-darkly-by-philip-k-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2008\/a-scanner-darkly-by-philip-k-dick","title":{"rendered":"A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-77\" title=\"Phillip K. Dick\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipkdick.com\/aa_biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Philip K. Dick<\/a> is less well known than other science fiction authors of his generation (Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein), but today he enjoys a growing reputation as his novels are adapted to the screen. Of these, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Scanner_Darkly\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Scanner Darkly<\/em><\/a> is the most recent, the most personal, and perhaps the most important. It is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/neuropsychology_and_.html\" target=\"_blank\">semi-autobiographical story of drug addiction<\/a>, corporate greed, and universal surveillance. Several of the characters are based on real people the author knew, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/butterflyjunk.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/scanner-darkly-authors-note.html\" target=\"_blank\">damage done by drugs is not hypothetical<\/a>. The story anticipates several developments of the last twenty years: pharmaceutical companies inventing diseases to fit the drugs they produce; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/10\/07\/magazine\/07SURVEILLANCE.html\" target=\"_blank\">surveillance society<\/a> with video cameras everywhere; and human beings who are written off by the society they live in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Scanner_Darkly_%28film%29\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-81\" title=\"A Scanner Darkly\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/scanner_darkly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"150\" \/>The 2006 movie<\/a> sticks close to the original novel, deftly exploiting Dick&#8217;s dry humor and sense of the absurd. The action centers around a loose group of &#8220;friends&#8221; who all share interest in (and possibly addiction to) the ominous &#8220;substance D.&#8221; In the words of one character, &#8220;There&#8217;s no week-end warriors on the D. You&#8217;re either on it, or you haven&#8217;t tried it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/cgi-bin\/wisdom.cgi?a=philipkdick\" target=\"_blank\">Philip K. Dick Quotations&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip K. Dick is less well known than other science fiction authors of his generation (Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein), but today he enjoys a growing reputation as his novels are adapted to the screen. Of these, A Scanner Darkly is the most recent, the most personal, and perhaps the most important. It is a semi-autobiographical story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2008\/a-scanner-darkly-by-philip-k-dick\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-people","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}