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.
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.
She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.
If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear and to mark where we must go than to ignore it.
You wake up each day from the dream; but to be free, you must also wake up from the waking state.
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