Too large to perceive,\ subjective experience,\ freedom to believe.#HAIKUPRAJNA - ("The World Jones Made")
"The World Jones Made" is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick about ethics in a dystopia that is governed by philosophical relativism. Illicit activities are performed by the cast, as political policy says right and wrong are relative to one's subjective experience, which allows anyone to believe what they want to believe so long as others are free from being forced into believing as well (where detractors are prisoned to labor-camps).
A "fedgov" family faces the challenges of opposing moral doctrines; a precognitive works with a loophole in governmental policy where others freely choose to believe everything he believes will happen within the next year; massive spore-like aliens quarantine humanity to a star cluster just as Earth begins to colonize Venus. When considering PKD's body of stories, the date that he wrote a story is important to note because of his earlier work's influence on his later, heavier, theosophical and metaphysical tales; this is an earlier work that deals with familiar PKD themes, including larger-than-perceivable beings and constructs that question the foundations of our realities. "Jones" is a tight story that follows a number of characters' plotlines while exploring determinism, fatalism and humanity's metaphysical free-will as restricted by causality and predetermined actions beyond one's control.
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Allen W. McLean
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