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.
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
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.
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.
The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, _x000D_ his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.
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