Introduction:In the novel Ubik, author Philip K. Dick suggested that technology is slowly changing our thoughts and morals to the point that humans can no longer function without it.
According to Webster’s dictionary a moral is a person’s standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and what is not acceptable for them to do. In other words it’s what a person views as the right thing to do.
Background: Glen Runciter met with a new client who claimed her boss sent her to get help. Runciter agreed to help her and gathered a team of inertials and headed to Luna. shortly after they arrived there was an explosion which killed part of the inertial team.
Morals have changed due to new technology
Mental illness is praised
People get jobs based on the severity of their mental illness
“Francy something, a part time schizophrenic who imagined that sentient beings from betelgeuse occasionally landed on the roof of her conapt building.” page 54
“Since when,” don denny said to francesca spanish, “did you begin to need psychedelic drugs in order to hallucinate? Your whole life’s a waking hallucination.”
The woman mentioned above was one of Runciter’s employees
Drugs are the norm and available almost everywhere
Increases in their mental disability and are available in vending machines
“When I’m at work I function better if I can get an …show more content…
Earth has become a world where people consider drugs a solution to problems, those who view drugs as the answer would see the access to drugs as convenient and wonderful. Also, people view mental illness as desirable and people today are proud of their depression and bipolar disorder. However in modern society they often cannot get jobs or will not, the technology in Ubik would allow them to have jobs. The technology makes things easier and life more convenient for those who are for
According to Webster’s dictionary a moral is a person’s standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and what is not acceptable for them to do. In other words it’s what a person views as the right thing to do.
Background: Glen Runciter met with a new client who claimed her boss sent her to get help. Runciter agreed to help her and gathered a team of inertials and headed to Luna. shortly after they arrived there was an explosion which killed part of the inertial team.
Morals have changed due to new technology
Mental illness is praised
People get jobs based on the severity of their mental illness
“Francy something, a part time schizophrenic who imagined that sentient beings from betelgeuse occasionally landed on the roof of her conapt building.” page 54
“Since when,” don denny said to francesca spanish, “did you begin to need psychedelic drugs in order to hallucinate? Your whole life’s a waking hallucination.”
The woman mentioned above was one of Runciter’s employees
Drugs are the norm and available almost everywhere
Increases in their mental disability and are available in vending machines
“When I’m at work I function better if I can get an …show more content…
Earth has become a world where people consider drugs a solution to problems, those who view drugs as the answer would see the access to drugs as convenient and wonderful. Also, people view mental illness as desirable and people today are proud of their depression and bipolar disorder. However in modern society they often cannot get jobs or will not, the technology in Ubik would allow them to have jobs. The technology makes things easier and life more convenient for those who are for