The nature of saying lots and nothing, all at once

November 28th, 2006 · No Comments

When it was released in 2002, Minority Report was interpreted by some as an indictment of George Bush’s doctrine of preemption, which allowed the US to detain persons and attack nations on mere suspicions.

In anticipation of the film, I bought The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, and was surprised to find that the titular story was not alone in predicting the foibles of the Bush administration. In fact, the story immediately preceding The Minority Report was so eerily reminiscent that I kept waiting for Cheney to stroll into the scene.

The Mold of Yancy, despite the title, has nothing to do with fungi.

Fun read, you can even read the whole of Philip K Dick’s Mold of Yancy on Defective Yeti here. Others have thought the same, Dick would be all over the current politics of America; What what Dick think? and Dick and the Post 9/11 World.