{"text":"As a city, Hong Kong is governed by a competent but fundamentally pessimistic elite, which administers a population bent on consumption. Instead of being hooked on drugs and TV like in PKD’s novels, people in Hong Kong are addicted to the extraordinary flow of liquidity from the mainland, which raises their asset values and dulls their senses. Hong Kong is organized entirely to serve elite business interests, which take the form of conglomerates and property developers. That is pretty much the setting of the modal PKD novel.","title":"2019 Letter","author":"Dan Wang","url":null,"source_url":"https://read.readwise.io/read/01gvcjjdfqx4hhrmdm1k46e07z","source_type":"article","category":null,"location_type":"offset","location":35908,"note":"作为一个城市，香港由一群能干但根本悲观的精英统治，他们管理着一个热衷于消费的人口。香港人不像PKD小说中那样沉迷于毒品和电视，而是沉迷于来自内地的非凡流动性，这提高了他们的资产价值并麻痹了他们的感官。香港完全是为了服务于企业利益组织起来的，这些利益以企业集团和房地产开发商的形式出现。这几乎就是PKD小说的典型背景。","highlighted_at":"2023-03-14T05:09:39.295669Z","highlight_url":"https://read.readwise.io/read/01gvf8c3n9hyhhb4dwx2nbn83v","image_url":"https://danwang.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/huang-hai.jpg","id":491126472,"user_book_id":25277238,"api_source":null}