Comments on: So Many Universes in My Head http://www.samplereality.com/2008/07/18/so-many-universes-in-my-head/ cybergnitohidinginaholeami Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:52:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.samplereality.com/2008/07/18/so-many-universes-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-2102 Mark Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:04:05 +0000 http://www.samplereality.com/?p=241#comment-2102 I've actually never played Deus Ex, to my embarrassment, but I think you're right about Dick's novels, at least the later ones. In early novels like <em>Time out of Joint </em>and <em>The Man in the High Castle</em> the moral universe is recognizably our own, but in a novel like<em> Valis</em>, there really is no moral structure. For my part, I was thinking that the world of <em>American Psycho</em> could be considered an amoral one. I’ve actually never played Deus Ex, to my embarrassment, but I think you’re right about Dick’s novels, at least the later ones. In early novels like Time out of Joint and The Man in the High Castle the moral universe is recognizably our own, but in a novel like Valis, there really is no moral structure.

For my part, I was thinking that the world of American Psycho could be considered an amoral one.

]]> By: Aram ZS http://www.samplereality.com/2008/07/18/so-many-universes-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-2101 Aram ZS Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:12:07 +0000 http://www.samplereality.com/?p=241#comment-2101 The game Deus Ex might be a good example. Also The Authority comic characters sort of operate outside of normal structures. In fact, that comic is all about how they exist independent from such structures. Though there is an outside world judging them, it doesn't really impact.  The movie Waking Life is a great example of this as well. Its complete disconnect from our standard world structures makes it a really crazy movie.  The same can be said (in part) for most of Dick's novels. This is illustrated pretty well in the move A Scanner Darkly, also rotoscoped, which shows that in such a world normal reality's physical structures also have trouble applying.  A case could also be made for the main character of Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. The game Deus Ex might be a good example. Also The Authority comic characters sort of operate outside of normal structures. In fact, that comic is all about how they exist independent from such structures. Though there is an outside world judging them, it doesn’t really impact. 

The movie Waking Life is a great example of this as well. Its complete disconnect from our standard world structures makes it a really crazy movie. 

The same can be said (in part) for most of Dick’s novels. This is illustrated pretty well in the move A Scanner Darkly, also rotoscoped, which shows that in such a world normal reality’s physical structures also have trouble applying. 

A case could also be made for the main character of Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.

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