There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the loss of privacy in modern society, suggesting that everything is publicly accessible.
Philip K. Dick highlights a crucial change in contemporary life, where the boundaries of privacy have diminished significantly. He suggests that in today's world, individuals can no longer maintain secrets, and the notion of a private life is fundamentally altered, emphasizing the pervasive nature of public scrutiny and the transparency of personal lives in a connected society.
In practice
In a discussion about the implications of social media on personal lives, this quote serves to illustrate the lack of privacy.
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.
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country - everybody is in a hurry to impose a certain religion on the child. How foolish! How stupid! Religion needs maturity, great understanding, before one can choose.
I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.
You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.
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