#philip dick

[iwonderwh0]

Fun fact: Philip K. Dick in the original "Do androids dream of electric sheep" used androids as a metaphor for nazis. This vision, however didn't get to the film adaptation (1982) where the narrative got changed (which is not a bad or good thing. Just curious how androids are used to refer to different things in fiction)

Some Philip's quotes from this interview:

For me the word ‘android’ is a metaphor for people who are physiologically human but psychologically behaving in a non-human way.

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I got interested in this when I was doing research for "the man in a high castle" and I was studying Nazi mentality, and I discovered although these people were highly intelligent they were definitely deficient in some manner <...> and as I studied the Nazi mentality <...> I became conscious of a very highly intelligent human being who is emotionally so defective that the word "human" could not properly be applied to him, and I used this in my writing in such terms as "Android" and "Robot" but I'm really referring to an actually psychologically defective or malfunctioning or pathological human being

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By the time I got to sheep I was revolutionary enough and existential enough to believe that these defective personalities were so lethal, so dangerous to human beings that it might be necessary ultimately to fight them. In other words that they could not be cured they cannot be changed and that it might literally wind up as a contest to see whether the humans won or "Androids" won. Now, the problem then would be that would we become like the androids in our really effort to wipe them out?

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If you kill a person because he is inhuman do you not become inhuman in the act of killing him?

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Philip K. Dick

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Valis: Classic Sci-fi Novel Review

Author: Philip K. Dick Publisher: Bantam Books (Gollancz, my copy) Country: USA Year: 1981 (2001, my copy) Valis is a uniquely strange novel in that it’s only partially fictional. And even that is only half fictional itself. Inspired largely by author Philip K. Dick’s own mental breakdown in 1974, it largely concerns itself with Horselover Fat, a split personality persona of the narrator (who…

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Philip Dick (1928 - 1982)

[perfectfeelings]

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Philip K. Dick

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Trevor Webb - A Scanner Darkly (Philip K Dick, Grafton 1985)

[dreams-of-mutiny]

“Everything in life is just for a while.”

― Philip K. Dick

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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Philip K. Dick

[frogchiro]

I saw a graves ch.ai (@rcdaxe_) that in a similar situation like neighbor x neighbor and he was basically begging for some chores to do at readers door and i couldn't help my self to think would ur neighbor!graves do something similar to this or he would do completely different things for reader attention

I need to check it out like yesterday bc oh my gooood ;;

But yes he'd absolutely do that :(( Despite you two not even being close to officially dating, you just see him as your handsome older neighbour who happen to be very friendly and helpful but Graves? Man is already daydreaming about you and thinks about who will your baby get their looks from :(

Philip can get awful separation anxiety, he has this obsessive need to be close to you and keep an eye on you the entire time or else who knows, you might as well slip him right through his finger and no one would like that, aye?

However, Philip's 'willingness to help' may come off as more...pushy and borderline desperate than he'd have intended :/ It's not even that you're annoyed or unnerved but you start to feel bad that your oh so kind neighbour comes over almost daily to ask you if there are any chores or work to do that he may help you with :(

You know that Philip isn't old old but he's still pushing 40 and judging from his past in active military duty his rare wince when he twists in a bad way and his hip hurts isn't something to be taken lightly but he always insists on helping you mow the lawn or look at your piping or even help you in your vegetable garden with weeds.

Phil sees you looking up at him with those big, worried eyes but he mistakes it for exhaustion with him; no!! Please don't get tired of him! He will do more and prove to you that he's husband and father to your offspring material :(

He has the obsessive need to prove himself to you and almost sees the pearly gates of heaven when you invite him into your home for cookies you baked and an ice cold lemonade. Philip feels like he won some prize at the lottery, he's in your home, your intimate space which smells so good and so you, but the real prize in his eyes is your cute radiant smile as you look up at him and your low-cut neckline which shows off your soft, plush tits and- oh, you don't wear a bra today? :((

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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Philip K. Dick

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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Philip K. Dick

[iwonderwh0]

In the early twentieth century the problem of production had been solved; after that it was the problem of consumption that plagued society. In the 1950's and '60's, consumer commodities and farm products began to pile up in vast towering mountains all over the Western World. As much as possible was given away—but that threatened to subvert the open market. By 1980, the pro tem solution was to heap up the products and burn them: billions of dollars worth, week after week. Each Saturday, townspeople had collected in sullen, resentful crowds to watch the troops squirt gasoline on the cars and toasters and clothes and oranges and coffee and cigarettes that nobody could buy, igniting them in a blinding conflagration. In each town there was a burning-place, fenced off, a kind of rubbish and ash heap, where the fine things that could not be purchased were systematically destroyed.

- Solar Lottery 1955 by Philip K. Dick

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[nerobuffoonery]

Just me, you and your brother in the back of an ambulace

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what about the history of this blog?

This blog has no history, it never existed until just now. All you see on it is an illusion created in this, the last second of existence, to fool you into thinking that the blog is real and thus deny the abandonment of your own ego for the illusion of Maya and silly cat pictures.