This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the disheartening reality of social agreement and power dynamics.
Philip K. Dick's quote highlights a profound observation about societal norms and beliefs. It suggests that when a majority agrees with a particular viewpoint, it may indicate a collective insanity, while dissenting voices often find themselves marginalized or in opposition to those in power. This serves as a commentary on the nature of reality and human perception, where individual truths can be overshadowed by prevailing ideologies and authoritative structures.
In practice
During a discussion on political ideologies, you might use this quote to illustrate the complexity of social agreement.
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.
To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.
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