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Isnt the running theme of pkd that he received visions of alternate realities through dreams?

It can work if part of the point is the author asking the reader "why do you even care?"

>>15984236
Impossible, there is no way that the US could have been occupied by anyone since the civil war.

>>15984323
I agree, but pkd thought he was receiving real visions

>>15984207
>"It was just a dream, bro"
That's not true tho. PKD just pokes holes at what we percieve as objective reality.

>>15984207
That's not how that book ends though

>>15985414
>>15985535
An generic oracle which reveals the """"inner truth"""" that they're in a book and like "the Nazis didn't win man!".
No different to "it was all a dream, bro"

>>15984323
>I cannot imagine it, therefore impossible

>>15985692
Ahh, they were not literally in the book.

>Android's
>Scanner
>High castle
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>Flow my tears

>>15986420
“feasibly” in terms of geopolitics and logistics. dont be a smartass.

>>15985692
>it was all a dream, bro
Hate the book all you want, but if you read it this way then you read it wrong. PKD was playing on all of the WW2 propaganda tropes that surround us to this day. The thesis is not that it is all a dream, but that it is all propaganda.

>>15985692
But the version given by the oracle isn't even what happened in our reality. It's yet another alternate history. iirc the war ends in 47' with Hitler being put on trial, and the Cold War being between the US and Britain.

>>15984207
When Dick was writing this novel, he consulted an Ouija board a couple of times when deciding where to take the plot next. Not his greatest work.

>>15986606
Not sure if I'm getting filtered by the king of pulp or it's the very fact that it's pulp that I'm not seeing this

>>15986676
Take for instance the Jew that gets captured - then processed and sent all the fucking way to Germany to get fucking gassed... long after any real hostilities. This is a spoof on the ridiculousness of the death camps. Why send him all the way to Germany? It makes no sense whatsoever. They could have just killed him wherever they found him. PKD's prose is shit so it is easy to miss the fine details in the morass.

>>15984289
playd this game, made it to day 4, but its bad game,hbomberguy is shit

>>15984289
What's this?

>>15984323
But traveling between alternate realities is totally realistic.

>>15987756
Why do retards like you still make this argument?
In order for travel between timelines be possible, you have to just write in a new "magic system" around it, while the mechanics of war stay the same because it's our world and they have never been changed in the story. So in order for the US to be occupied they have to make no resistance agains their enemies, which is batshit stupid.

>>15987809
Imagine being this autistic.

>>15987860
COPE

>>15984207
This books was awful
I’m assuming everyone here that likes it are tourists who were into the shitty amazon show because nobody who reads regularly would think the book was anything better then a slightly less than mediocre midwit time killer.

>>15988354
>It's bad
Not an argument.

>>15984207
it's genre fiction faggot, what you see is what you get

>>15985692
>>15986638
this

>>15986638
OP didn't finish the book, or OP has very limited reading compression.

>>15989777
>OP didn't finish the book
I think that it is the latter. I do not think that he would have come to the conclusion that he did without reading the last two pages.

>>15988735
Lmao, it’s not an argument, it’s me telling you to read a book you didn’t see on television first so you don’t end up schilling dogshit wrapped in a gimmick