BladeRunner
Damn it, you don't get it. Rick Deckard WAS an android...insofar that Philip K. Dick's view of humanity was essentially sympathetic and hopeful. In other words, Deckard WAS the quintessentially obedient electric sheep, programmed for a task no essentially empathetic human could, or should be asked to perform.
Dick thus symbolically elevates the idea of humanity as he transfers the propensity for inhumanity onto the (inhuman) androids. Don't think for a minute that "the blood of the lamb" wasn't a concept in play here. Further, Mercerism (read: Messiah) and the empathy box are prescient metaphors for an online society in need of some form of mutual fulfillment, for what it's worth. Was the place pretty? No. Was the place peaceful? A war had just ended. Was the place happy? Ultimately, in the book, yes.
Dick thus symbolically elevates the idea of humanity as he transfers the propensity for inhumanity onto the (inhuman) androids. Don't think for a minute that "the blood of the lamb" wasn't a concept in play here. Further, Mercerism (read: Messiah) and the empathy box are prescient metaphors for an online society in need of some form of mutual fulfillment, for what it's worth. Was the place pretty? No. Was the place peaceful? A war had just ended. Was the place happy? Ultimately, in the book, yes.
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