He put his observations to work, and well, as certainly in my case, his teleology, his epistemology, his entire weltanschauung was deeply contagious. The more o

He put his observations to work, and well, as certainly in my case, his teleology, his epistemology, his entire weltanschauung was deeply contagious. The more of his corpus you read the more the underlying themes stick, and his themes are like catnip for the nihilistic and incredulous. Baudrillard certainly “got” Dick, as his essays provide a beautifully formalised encapsulation of the primary ideas that motivated Dick, and did so by reading his stories. Good literature doesn’t have to have a compelling plot, or beautiful literary style, or evocative descriptive prose, or any particular form or mechanism - it just has to do one thing: change you, the reader.