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Software

Rudy Rucker
P.K. Dick 1983, Internet Top 100

Everything in one small, 167 page book ­
politics: "the army's control center was just so much stupid, worthless, human-chauvinist jingo jive."
theology: "Poems are made like fools by me. But only God can tear your brain into tiny little pieces."
philosophy: "What's so important about having a carbon-based body and brain?"
ethics: "Preserving your software . . . that was all that really counted!"
psychology: "I think you should kill him and eat his brain." "That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations."
religion: "But mass-murder is not the way. There's a better way, a way to get people to volunteer for brain-taping. We'll start a new religious cult!"
logic: "You're driving, I will defer to your superior knowledge of human criminality."

Wild and thrilling speed-ride through 2020 contemporary culture where aged baby boomer pheezers (freaky geezers) having run out of income and social security take over Florida and perpetuate the 1960's.

Lots of humor and silliness but more than enough insightful jabs that shift perceptions into a closer examination of our lives and values.

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