Tuesday, October 9, 2007

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

When I read We Can Remember It For You Wholesale the second time, one sentence jumped out at me. On page 358, Philip Dick wrote, "Programming an artificial memory of a trip to another planet - with or without the added fillup of being a secret agent - showed up on the firm's work-schedule with monotonous regularity." This sentence shows the reader how popular Rekal Inc. is. Knowing that there are so many people wanting the memory of being a secret - agent disturbs me. Their whole society is being filled with lies and events that did not really happen. Eventually, the whole society is going to be made up of people who believe that they are secret agents. This bothers me because eventually someone's going to have to question the fact that everybody's been a secret agent at some point.

1 comment:

Laura Nicosia said...

This is amazing and disturbing. Exactly!