How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)

Thanks for this.

It was particularly interesting to me how PKD's themes of simulacra, Disneyland, and Watergate closely matched those of Jean Baudrillard who wrote[1], somewhat more pessimistically but very much in the same vein as PKD, in 1981:

  ... Watergate. You remember this. Nixon. Wiretaps in the
  plants. Deepthroat. All that jazz. Watergate was the exact
  same fucking thing as Disneyland—an imaginary thing whose
  only purpose is to distract us from the fact that every
  last thing is now imaginary. But where Disneyland is a
  fictional magic land, Watergate is instead a “scandal.”
  The real scandal beneath the surface is that there is no 
  difference between facts and bullshit. Both the CIA and
  the journalists from the Washington Post who broke the
  story use the same tactics. What Watergate did was create
  a fiction moral compass of sorts. All politics are
  permanently buttfucked, but if we occasionally point
  fingers at some buttfucker who is doing some serious
  buttfucking, it creates this sense that there are less
  serious degrees of buttfucking and even possibly regular,
  wholesome vagfucking. ...

[1] Kind of wrote - excerpted from a translation into modern vernacular of The Precession of Simulacra at http://www.continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article...

A bit unpleasant to say that about someone we know had enduring mental health problems - hallucinations and delusions, and some drug-related stuff too.