Forum Overview :: Rants :: There was a lot of new-agey stuff in the 1970s that always had telepaths

[quote name="blackwater"]Writers like Philip K. Dick would always sprinkle in telepaths, precognition, and so on. I think he honestly believed in that stuff, the same way people believe in AI today. Speaking of Asimov, the Foundation series is kind of funny because he starts off as a strict scientific materialist talking about a Karl Marx-like figure who can predict all of history. But then he introduces telepaths. And then eventually he goes full Gaia worship in the last few books. (He even uses the word Gaia) I was so disappointed as a kid. It was a true shark-jumping experience. With PKD I never felt the same way since I always knew going in that I was in for some new-age bullSHIT (but hopefully in a good way)[/quote]