"More human than human" is our motto.
Philip K. Dick Android Missing Head
This is too perfect, though people like me seem to be chastised in advance for thinking so:
However satisfying to those with a sense of irony, Hanson is not comforted by the idea of his homage to Dick on a jaunt somewhere or, more likely, stuck in storage.
"It's almost like it has some free spirit to it," he said. "A lot of people have said that it's almost like a PKD narrative, like one of those absurd twists that would occur in a PKD novel. But emotionally it doesn't feel that way to me."
I suppose it wouldn't. Got a minute? Head over here for PKD's terrifying essay (referenced by Richard Linklater - why I typed 'Art' originally, I have no idea - in 'Waking Life') on why we are actually still living in 50 A.D.:
Do not believe—and I am dead serious when I say this—do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
Of course, I would say this, because I live near Disneyland, and they are always adding new rides and destroying old ones. Disneyland is an evolving organism. For years they had the Lincoln Simulacrum, like Lincoln himself, was only a temporary form which matter and energy take and then lose. The same is true of each of us, like it or not.
Today a WWII soldier returns to Japan after spending the last five years in Russia and most of his life on an Okinawan island.
And it's good to be a witch in Zimbabwe:
The Witchcraft Suppression Act was used fairly frequently, but prosecuting someone under the new legislation may prove difficult.
The new Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act will demand proof that a person has supernatural powers and that they are using them to harm others.
"It's not going to be easy task," says Custom Kachambwa, a judge with years of experience in the legal field.
'So, if... she weighs as much as a duck...'
'Then she's a...'
'Witch?'
This is too perfect, though people like me seem to be chastised in advance for thinking so:
However satisfying to those with a sense of irony, Hanson is not comforted by the idea of his homage to Dick on a jaunt somewhere or, more likely, stuck in storage.
"It's almost like it has some free spirit to it," he said. "A lot of people have said that it's almost like a PKD narrative, like one of those absurd twists that would occur in a PKD novel. But emotionally it doesn't feel that way to me."
I suppose it wouldn't. Got a minute? Head over here for PKD's terrifying essay (referenced by Richard Linklater - why I typed 'Art' originally, I have no idea - in 'Waking Life') on why we are actually still living in 50 A.D.:
Do not believe—and I am dead serious when I say this—do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
Of course, I would say this, because I live near Disneyland, and they are always adding new rides and destroying old ones. Disneyland is an evolving organism. For years they had the Lincoln Simulacrum, like Lincoln himself, was only a temporary form which matter and energy take and then lose. The same is true of each of us, like it or not.
Today a WWII soldier returns to Japan after spending the last five years in Russia and most of his life on an Okinawan island.
And it's good to be a witch in Zimbabwe:
The Witchcraft Suppression Act was used fairly frequently, but prosecuting someone under the new legislation may prove difficult.
The new Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act will demand proof that a person has supernatural powers and that they are using them to harm others.
"It's not going to be easy task," says Custom Kachambwa, a judge with years of experience in the legal field.
'So, if... she weighs as much as a duck...'
'Then she's a...'
'Witch?'
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