re "paranoia during the Nixon administration" - Philip K. Dick 1977 video interview

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Fabulous link. Led me to Robert Downey Jr. saying: "show me how to hit my ass with both hands, if you have a moment." Worth it for that alone. Love "Scanner Darkly" nearly as much as GR.
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From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> Philip K. Dick 1977 video interview 
> In these short excerpts from a 1977 interview
> conducted at the "Festival du livre de science
> fiction," surrealist SF author Philip K. Dick talks
> about paranoia during the Nixon administration, the
> Berkeley counterculture, and A Scanner Darkly. From
> the interview, incorporated into a video made to
> promote the recent film adaptation of A Scanner
> Darkly: 
>  The positions that writers such as myself hold in
> America are... very lowly. Science fiction is
> considered to be something for adolescents, for just
> high school kids, and for disturbed people in general
> to read.
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ewcp6Nm-rQ
> 
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