Sublime

When humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.

The sermon of the panorama was that even a man without a friend in the Universe could still find his home planet mysteriously, heartbreakingly beautiful.

“It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed.”

Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

Intellect to the men, politics to the women, and ethics to the interaction of both: that’s their arrangement.

A peculiarity of Richard’s was that he lacked a conscience or superego in the normal senses of those terms. His was a soul lacking any built-in adult supervision.

rather than their mechanical replacements. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter whose quarries are ‘Nexus-6’ androids who illegally return to Earth from off-planet colonies. He is licensed to ‘retire’ (terminate) these fabricated beings which are so convincingly human that they easily blend into society. Again PKD picks up on the theme of entropy. The N

There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released the faucet but kept pouring out until shut off—a sign, Shevek thought, either of great faith in human nature, or of great quantities of hot water.