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.
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
So much of the news was invented for propaganda.
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