>>215193814
This man was either very high IQ or was just into drugs

>>215193814
read the book and thought it was kinda meh. please rec some k. dick kinos (I mean books)

>>215193814
>What Did Philip Mean By This?
He admitted freely that his wife wrote almost all the titles for his books.

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>>215195222
Flow My Tears the Police Man Said
and
Dr. Bloodmoney
Those two are pretty damn good.

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>>215195222
Man In the High Castle too. Its MUCH better than the show ever was.

>>215193814
Do whitedroids dream of electric BBC?

>>215193814
This book predicted the soi generation of vegans with overdeveloped empathy who are nonetheless nothing but performative sociopaths
> He had wondered as had most people at one time or another precisely why an android bounced helplessly about when confronted by an empathy-measuring test. Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnids. For one thing, the emphatic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve.
>Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimatley, the emphatic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. As in the fusion with Mercer, everyone ascended together or, when the cycle had come to an end, fell together into the trough of the tomb world. Oddly, it resembled a sort of biological insurance, but double-edged. As long as some creature experienced joy, then the condition for all other creatures included a fragment of joy. However, if any living being suffered, then for all the rest the shadow could not be entirely cast off. A herd animal such as man would acquire a higher survival factor through this; an owl or a cobra would be destroyed.
>Evidently the humanoid robot constituted a solitary predator.
>Rick liked to think of them that way; it made his job palatable. In retiring - i.e. killing - an andy he did not violate the rule of life laid down by Mercer

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>>215195635
>overdeveloped empathy who are nonetheless nothing but performative sociopaths
Ive read that book and I dont quite see what you mean.
Mercerism was the great whole of the civilized world connecting for a feeling of unity together. Sure they all had jobs and it was shitty bladerunner reality, but they all were together in Mercer.
Except the andys of course.

>>215193814
In the book, people literally cared for electric animals, including sheep. Makes more sense in context.

>>215193814
he was just too far ahead of his time

>>215197221
This. The title is a clever way of asking “Is Deckard a replicant” or more fundamentally “what does it mean to be human”?.

>>215195222
I loved Ubik.

>>215195535
Kek I get this reference.

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>>215193814
The Mark Wahlborg 5000 dreams of electric gooks

>>215195222
>Dr. Bloodmoney
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and The Scanner Darkly are the highest drugkino

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>>215194015
he was a head of his time
that speech in france when the crowd was laughing at him is heartbreaking

>>215198814
Why are black droids like this?

>>215193814

>In February 1974, science fiction author Philip K. Dick experienced a spiritual and mystical event involving a "pink beam of light". While recovering from dental surgery, a delivery woman arrived with medication, wearing a golden fish pendant. Upon seeing the pendant, which he recognized as an early Christian symbol, Dick claims a beam of pink light struck him and conveyed a wealth of information.

It was aliens.

The book sucked.
The fake police department run by androids and that human cop not realizing it was absolutely retarded.

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>>215198996
>that speech in france when the crowd was laughing at him is heartbreaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbYiXyRZjM
It's schizo kino thobeit

>>215195222
>read the book and thought it was kinda meh
I thought it was shit.