Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | Mercerism and the Empathy Box

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

Комментарии • 26

  • @Peter-dk2ov
    @Peter-dk2ov 2 года назад +20

    Such an interesting video. Mercer reminds me of the myth of sisyphus. The absolute acceptance of circumstance

    • @GregoryBSadler
      @GregoryBSadler  2 года назад +6

      Mercer doesn’t absolutely accept circumstance. He actively intervenes in the novel to enable Deckard to kill the androids

    • @Peter-dk2ov
      @Peter-dk2ov 2 года назад +1

      @@GregoryBSadler its been a while since my last read through. Will you be doing more analysis? Id love to follow along as I read it again

    • @GregoryBSadler
      @GregoryBSadler  2 года назад +3

      @@Peter-dk2ov Yes

  • @DevastationMtrsports
    @DevastationMtrsports 2 года назад +10

    The empathy box reminds me of something Klaus Schwab said at a WEF meeting about feeling the audience thoughts while discussing brain neural implants. And future tech..
    Phillip was wary ahead of his time

    • @GregoryBSadler
      @GregoryBSadler  2 года назад +6

      The empathy box is pretty innocuous as far as these things go

  • @localmo88
    @localmo88 Год назад +4

    Really like your content. I interpreted Mercerism as PKD's alternative model of Christianity. A way that Dick could explore some modern Christian methods of worship/doctrine and easily supplant them with a variant in a modern world or alternative world to ours.
    It made me wonder about an innate human need for mysticism, salvation and idolatry.

    • @GregoryBSadler
      @GregoryBSadler  Год назад +1

      You might think of it more as something containing outlines of what Dick took to be right about Christianity, to be sure mediated (until the end) by technology

  • @lonesomeonrymean9216
    @lonesomeonrymean9216 2 года назад +2

    Thankyou for this discussion of a very timely piece of literature.

  • @Peter-dk2ov
    @Peter-dk2ov 2 года назад +2

    One of my favourite books ever

  • @orcapodmedia
    @orcapodmedia 7 месяцев назад +1

    Woah. I just finished this book but it seems like I might need to re-read it.

    • @GregoryBSadler
      @GregoryBSadler  7 месяцев назад

      It's one of those books that does reward rereading

  • @natedaug1
    @natedaug1 2 года назад +1

    Great stuff Dr. S.

  • @magicboyra5746
    @magicboyra5746 11 месяцев назад +1

    I think there's a really interesting analysis between Spinoza's affects and passions and mercerism. Under Spinoza, the arteficiality of the empathy box wouldn't really matter as it would still come from the only substance. Am I right?

    • @GregoryBSadler
      @GregoryBSadler  11 месяцев назад

      No

    • @justbrian...
      @justbrian... 2 месяца назад

      I don't know enough about spinoza to be able to weigh in, but as a random internet stranger with no philosophical or literary degrees at all, I'd probably agree with your statement. The 'technology' or 'artificiality' of the empathy box seems only necessary until someone's consciousness (Deckard in this case) can fuse with Mercer without needing to touch the handles. But then again, Deckard doesn't seem to have the union with all the other people though. He's just alone in his mercer experience at the end (at least it seems that way). But perhaps my memory is not so sharp and I'll need to reread those parts again.

  • @nedelchohristoskov2434
    @nedelchohristoskov2434 2 года назад +1

    The sole reason to visit the States. Best regards!

    • @GregoryBSadler
      @GregoryBSadler  2 года назад +3

      Not sure what that means about visiting the US

    • @nedelchohristoskov2434
      @nedelchohristoskov2434 2 года назад +2

      @@GregoryBSadler pardon me, I meant to visit your lectures.

  • @Svxon007
    @Svxon007 2 года назад

    ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ (out of 7 lol) *why? I♡DADOES since i was little, and the absences of mercer in the movie(s), the value of this lecture today in a way the ancients must have considered as seemingly perfection in timing ... sadly the local PetSmart are all out of augary supplies!

  • @macrograms
    @macrograms Год назад +1

    mercerism is so fricking weird. thank you.