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I'm reminded of some of Philip K Dick's later books, after he well and truly went off his rocker. He also believed in a false chronology, where around a thousan
by lmkg 4y ago
I'm reminded of some of Philip K Dick's later books, after he well and truly went off his rocker. He also believed in a false chronology, where around a thousand years were missing. Like Fomenko, this constructed history of his aligned with his political beliefs: in particular, Dick believed the fall of the Roman Empire was fiction, and that the world was ruled by an evil hegemony.
Dick believed that the truth was revealed to him via laser beam from a satellite that was an agent of the true God, and his beliefs about chronology extended into a spiritual view based on Christian Gnosticism, where the visible world is an illusion perpetrated by an evil entity playing at being God. While that's clearly pants-on-head bonkers, I feel like it's better-motived and more self-consistent than New Chronology.