Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep --mercerism And The Postapocalyptic World
(Dick, P.K.)
There is a holocaust of empathy and physical reality in ?Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, resulting from a division of the characters into different classes of perceived worth. A claim is made in this division, that the only reality is a subjective one; though contained in this reality(s), are the opposing ideologies of Mercerism (that humans can or should or can best connect with each other through empathy boxes and mostly in a shared experience of suffering, culminating in a fusion with Mercer who is eternal and established codes to live by) and anti-Mercerism (espoused by Buster Friendly and his Friendly friends, that they should not, that he is not, and he did not).The influence of these ideologies have an effect on the range and the degree to which different life forms and androids can be empathized with by humans. Because Mercerism asserts the preeminence of humans (and that of donkeys and toads over other animals), its adherents see all life forms and beings in gradations of supposed importance, which has the effect of making androids, animals, false animals, and humans invisible or distorting their appearance, and keeping them from being empathized with (because they are viewed as different, or not viewed, and empathy usually looks for qualities that are the same or mostly). The novel shows these operational precepts at work in the distortion of a post W.W.T. world, by the empathic (and lack of empathic) responses of Rick Decker and the experiences of John Isidore. www.valiantdeath.com ---- for wonderful experimental music/ art/ zines
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