I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.
Interpretation
People fear the unknown and often try to eliminate it rather than confront it.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick highlights a fundamental human tendency to fear uncertainty and the unknown aspects of life. Instead of embracing ambiguity and exploring what lies beyond their understanding, individuals may resort to destructive behaviors as a way to cope with their discomfort, revealing both the fragility and the primal instincts inherent in human nature.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming fears during a company workshop.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
But what Freud showed us⦠was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.
Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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