Philip K. Dick: Difference between revisions

** Mostly it comes in the form of either "[[Oh Crap|the Demiurge suddenly got interested in your life]]", or "the complete/higher God was looking the other way when the Demiurge decided to [[Kick the Dog]]" (with the Dog in this case being one of PKD's protagonists).

** By the time we get to the appearance of "[[Light Is Good|The Pink Light]]", the manifestation of Sophia (in different forms), and alternate interpretations of the Torah (which are then used to validate multiple levels of existence), it becomes "Aion Telos is trying to help but can't get through to humans because Yaldaboath is blocking the entrance to the Iron Fortress." [[Take a Third Option|That said]], what we're really talking about here is the intervention of the ''Advocate'' versus the Adversary, because the Godhead itself tends to be either [[Neglectful Precursors|too bored to pay attention]] or... well, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|broken.]]

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: all humans and sentient creatures have both redeemable and damnable qualities (with generally more time spent musing on the damnable). There is no black and white, only mixed shades of grey, and if you think you've finally come across someone who fits into either a pure white or black category, then you are probably about to find out something about them that dilutes them to grey again. The only exception from this rule are those that are manifestations of the demiurge, and even then the psychosis backing the [[Complete Monster]] always has a dimension of understanding to it that makes the reader unable to label them as definitively evil.

* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]] - they really, really are.