This is a second copy of Philip K. Dick's celebrated 1978 essay "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later," sourced from deoxy.org. The text appears to have been digitized from a web archive, as indicated by date stamps and URL formatting artifacts in the text.
The essay opens with Dick's famous greeting from Disneyland and his anecdote about being interviewed by Paris TV alongside Norman Spinrad, discussing the rise of fascism while riding in giant teacups. Dick develops his two central philosophical preoccupations: the nature of reality and the definition of authentic humanity.
This copy duplicates content also present in the archive under id 45007880-philip-k-dick-how-to-build-a-universe but appears to derive from a different digital source. The presence of two copies from different sources reflects the essay's status as one of Dick's most widely circulated and frequently republished non-fiction works, a key text for understanding his philosophical worldview and its relationship to his fiction.