We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the prevalence of manufactured realities in society by various powerful entities and questions the nature of authenticity.
Philip K. Dick's quote reflects on the overwhelming influence of media, corporations, and political entities in shaping our perceptions of reality. It urges us to critically consider what is genuine amidst the constant barrage of artificial narratives and ideologies, prompting reflection on our understanding of truth in a complex world.
In practice
This quote can be used during a discussion about media literacy in a classroom setting.
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.
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.
It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.
Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
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