Thought

Philip K. Dick

Man’s society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.
Philip K. Dick, “The Variable Man” (1952), The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, v.1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1987).

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