“To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement”

— Philip K. Dick , book VALIS

VALIS (1981)
Context: To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement … Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus … thereby it becomes its enemies.

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