We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Bigger Commitments

The only thing that can substitute satisfactorily for a life-fantasy is a bigger life-fantasy, one which includes but exceeds the lesser narrative. Keep telling taller and taller tales about yourself and you end up with... well, theology, the biggest story that one can tell. This is the basis of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God, developed by St. Anselm, the 11th century Archbishop of Canterbury. What Anselm didn’t get, Dick does, namely that what the Argument proves is not God, but the infinite power of the human imagination to conceive even that which does not exist. Dick also knows that this power is redemptive whether or not anyone else recognizes it. It is our salvation. All this and more in 29 pages.

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