in the future i imagine this scenario.
one guy is on a balcony and has a soda in his hand and another guy comes up to him and asks "what does it mean to be a good person if all your mistakes are corrected automatically?" and the guy with the soda throws the soda off the balcony and a little drone detects it and whisks it away to the thrash bin. as that happens the guy that threw it says " i don't know. your intentions don't matter anymore. only convenience does".
this links to the transgender issue. what if they find a way to really turn people into the opposite sex. chromosomes and all.(even if they did i would still consider it devil worship).
i think technology will set a dangerous precedent as to what is and isn't acceptable as a society. how much convenience is to much and if technology did reach those heights would they be morally just?
Yeah. Phillip K Dick is interesting. Hollywood loves him. I don't think he was big on them. I know L. Ron Hubbard was a huge PKD fan but it wasn't a mutual relationship. PKD thought of L. Ron Hubbard as a parasite in the genre. LRH was more about self-aggrandizement and less about exploring the science. L Ron Hubbard was Scientology's leader and so he had his tendrils around so many emotional compromised stars. He was also big into Allister Crowley and stuff. I think that's where a lot of the Satanism that runs through Hollywood comes from. Well rumor is that Satanism made it's way out there in the 30's. Scientology was most likely a government program to control that sort of thing. L Ron Hubbard had ties to the FBI. My guess is the government created Scientology to try and soak up people that would have gone to the Church of Satan but you know. If you're anywhere long enough you adopt some of the practices you're exposed to. The left coast is known for all sorts of weird cults. Meanwhile PKD is writing about more ethical and Christian centric (but kind of lefty) things. I think both the Church of Satan and the Scientologists kind of saw him as a threat. I highly recommend the Exegesis of PKD. Good read. Really opened my mind about what you can write about as a Christian artist.