Succession of the Criminally Insane

[Dave Monroe]

>From David Seed, American Science Fiction and the Cold
War: Literature and Film (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn,
1999), Ch. X, "Conspiracy Narratives," pp. 132-44 ...

"On 1 September 1973 he [Philip K. Dick] wrote to
Bruce Gillespie, editor of the Australian journal SF
Commentary, to express anger at political developments
in the USA: 'The magnitude of the despotic gang of
professional, organized criminals who came to power
(as did Hitler in Germany) is increasingly revealed to
the US public', he exclaimed ...."

Citing ...

Etchison, Dennis, ed.  The Selected Letters of
   Philip K. Dick, 1972-1973.  Lancaster, PA:
   Underwood-Miller, 1993.  p. 287

Cf. ...

"Except for that succession of the criminally insane
who have enjoyed power  since 1945, including the
power to do something about it, most of the rest of us
poor sheep have always been stuck with simple,
standard fear.  I think we all have tried to deal with
this slow escalation of our helplessness and  terror
in the few ways open to us, from not thinking about it
to going
crazy from it.  Somewhere on this spectrum of
impotence is writing fiction about it--occasionally,
as here offset to a more colorful time and place."

Thomas Pynchon, "Introduction," Slow Learner (Boston:
Little, Brown, 1984) ...

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