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Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as Anti-Semitic/Christian-Gnostic Allegory

Greg Johnson

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Philip K. Dick’s 1968 science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is far less famous than Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie Blade Runner, which is loosely based on the novel. A few of the novel’s characters and dramatic situations, as well as bits of dialogue, found their way into Blade Runner, often shorn of the context in which they made sense. But the movie and novel dramatically diverge on the fundamental question of what makes human beings different from androids, and in terms of the “myths” that provide the deep structure of their stories. 

In Blade Runner, what separates androids from humans is their lack of memories, whereas in the novel it is their lack of empathy. In the novel, the underlying myth is the passion of the Christ, specifically his persecution at the hands of the Jews (both the Jews who called for his death and their present-day descendants, who continue to mock him and his followers). In Blade Runner, however, it is the rebellion of Satan against God—and this time, Satan wins by murdering God. (I will deal with Blade Runner at greater length in another essay.)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is set in 1992 in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a side trip to Seattle. After World War Terminus, the earth’s atmosphere is polluted by vast radioactive dust clouds. Many animal species are extinct, and the rest are extremely rare, so animals are highly valued, both for religious reasons and as status symbols, and there is brisk market in electric animals. (Hence the title.)

To escape the dust, most human beings have emigrated to off-world colonies. (Mars is mentioned specifically.) As an incentive, emigrants are given androids as servants and slave laborers. (They are called “replicants” in the movie, but not in the book.) These androids are not machines, like electric sheep. They are artificially created living human beings. They are created as full-grown humans and live only four years. Aside from their short lifespans, androids differ from human beings by lacking empathy. In essence, they are sociopaths. Androids are banned from earth, and violators are hunted down and “retired” by bounty hunters. (The phrase “blade runner” does not appear in the book.)

The novel never makes clear why androids return to earth, which is inhabited only by genetically malformed “specials” and mentally-retarded “chickenheads,” who are not allowed to emigrate, and a remnant of normal humans who refuse to emigrate and are willing to risk the dust and endure lifelessness and decay because of their attachment to the earth. Earth does make sense as a destination, however, given the androids’ status as slaves in the off-world colonies and their short lifespans, which obviates concerns about long-term damage from the dust.

I wish to argue that Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? can be read as a systematic Christian and anti-Semitic allegory. Naturally, I do not argue that this brief but rich and suggestive novel can be reduced entirely to this dimension. But I argue that this is the mythic backbone of the narrative and indicates that Philip K. Dick had a good deal of wisdom about Jews and the Jewish question.

Historical Christianity plays no role in the novel. The only religion mentioned is called Mercerism, which of course brings to mind “mercy.” Mercerism apparently arose after WWT, as a reaction to the mass death of human beings and animals, which led the survivors to place a high value on empathy. Given its emphasis on empathy, Mercerism is an experiential religion, facilitated by a device called the Empathy Box, which has a cathode ray tube with handles on each side. When one switches on the Empathy Box and grasps the handles, one’s consciousness is merged with other Mercerists as they experience the passion of Wilbur Mercer, an old man who trudges to the top of a hill as unseen tormentors throw stones at him. At the Golgotha-like summit, the torments intensify. Mercer then dies and descends into the underworld, from which he rises like Jesus, Osiris, Dionysus, and Adonis—and, like the latter three, brings devastated nature back to life along with him.

According to Mercer’s back story, he was found by his adoptive parents as an infant floating in a life raft (like Moses). As a young man, he had an unusual empathic connection with animals. He had the power to bring dead animals back to life (like Jesus, although Jesus did not deign to resurrect mere animals). The authorities, called the “adversaries” and “The Killers,” arrested Mercer and bombarded his brain with radioactive cobalt to destroy his ability to resurrect the dead. This plunged Mercer into the world of the dead, but at a certain point, Mercer conquered death and brought nature back to life. His passion and resurrection is somehow recapitulated in the experience of the old man struggling to the top of the hill, dying, descending into the world of the dead, and ascending again. (The incoherence of the story may partly be a commentary on religion and partly a reflection of the fact that our account of Mercerism is recollected by a mentally subnormal “chickenhead.”)

If Mercerism is about empathy towards other humans and creation as a whole, his adversaries, The Killers, are those that lack empathy and instead exploit animals and other human beings. If Mercerism is analogous to Christianity, The Killers are analogous to Jews. And, indeed, in the Old Testament, the Jews are commanded by God to exploit nature and other men.

The androids, because they lack empathy, are natural Killers. Thus bounty hunter Rick Deckard explicitly likens androids to The Killers: “For Rick Deckard, an escaped humanoid robot, which had killed its master, which had been equipped with an intelligence greater than that of many human beings, which had no regard for animals, which possessed no ability to feel empathic joy for another life form’s success or grief at its defeat—that, for him, epitomized The Killers” (Philip K. Dick, Four Novels of the 1960s, ed. Jonathan Lethem [New York: Library of America, 2007], p. 456).

Of course, although the androids epitomize The Killers, they are not the only ones who lack empathy. Earth has been devastated because human politicians and industrialists had less feeling for life than for political prestige and adding zeroes to their bank accounts. This is precisely why Mercerism puts a premium on empathy. A scene in which the androids cut off the legs of a spider just for the fun of it makes clear why they must be hunted down and killed. Mercer commands his followers “You shall kill only the killers” (ibid.). If only human Killers could be “retired” as well.

The android lack of empathy is the basis of the Voight-Kampff test, which can detect androids by measuring their weak responses to the sufferings of animals and other human beings. (The rationale for the Voight-Kampff test is completely absent from Blade Runner, in which humans and androids are differentiated in terms of memories, not empathy.)

The Killers and the androids are not, however, characterized merely by lack of empathy but also by excess of intelligence, which for the androids expresses itself in intellectual arrogance and condescension toward the chickenhead J. R. Isidore. Intellectuality combined with arrogance are, again, stereotypically Jewish traits. By contrast, Mercerism, because it is based on empathy rather than intellect, can embrace all feeling beings, even chickenheads.

The androids Deckard is hunting are manufactured by the Rosen Association in Seattle, Rosen being a stereotypically Jewish name (at least in America). (In Blade Runner, it is the Tyrell Corporation, Tyrell being an Anglo-Saxon name.) The aim of the Rosen Association is perfect crypsis: androids that cannot be distinguished from humans by any test, even though this agenda conflicts with the aims of the civil authorities to root out all android infiltrators. Deckard notes that “Androids . . . had . . . an innate desire to remain inconspicuous” (p. 529). Crypsis is, of course, an ancient Jewish art, necessary for the diaspora to blend in among their host communities. The Rosen Association obviously has higher loyalties than to the civil authorities, and Jews are notorious for protecting their own people, even criminals, from the civil authorities of their host societies.

The Rosen Association tasks an android named Rachel Rosen (a very Jewish name) to protect rogue androids by seducing bounty hunters. Apparently sex with an android creates something of an empathic bond, at least from the human point of view, which inhibits them from killing androids. Rachel thus plays the role of Queen Esther, the Jewish woman who wedded Ahasuerus, a mythical king of Persia, and used their relationship to protect her people and destroy their persecutor Haman.

One of the most surreal episodes in the novel ensues when Rick Deckard interviews android soprano Luba Luft in her dressing room at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. (In the down-market Blade Runner, she is Zhora, the stripper with the snake.) Before Deckard can complete his interview and “retire” her, Luft turns the tables by calling the police.

Deckard is promptly arrested and discovers that San Francisco has another, parallel police department staffed primarily by humans but headed by an android who, of course, watches out for the interests of his fellow androids. Granted, an entire parallel police department is a rather implausible notion. A more plausible scenario would be the infiltration of the existing police department. But the episode strictly parallels techniques of Jewish subversion in the real world. For instance, the fact that US foreign policy is more responsive to Israeli interests than American interests is clearly the result of the over-representation of ethnically-conscious Jews and their allies among American policy- and opinion-makers. Jews seek positions of power and influence in the leading institutions of their host societies, subverting them into serving Jewish interests at the expense of the host population.

When Deckard frees himself from the fake police department and tracks down Luba Luft, he notices that, although she does not come with him willingly, “she did not actively resist; seemingly she had become resigned. Rick had seen that before in androids, in crucial situations. The artificial life force that animated them seemed to fail if pressed too far . . . at least in some of them. But not all” (p. 529). This brings to mind holocaust stories of Jews allowing themselves to be passively herded en masse to their deaths. (This seems unlikely, for based on my experience, Jews do not lack self-assertion.)

The final anti-Semitic dimension of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is its treatment of the media. Only two media outlets are mentioned, one private and the other owned by the government. (Hollywood is also defunct. Dick’s ability to envision the future obviously failed him here.) The privately owned media broadcasts the same talk show, Buster Friendly and His Friendly Friends, on both radio and television 23 hours a day. How is this possible? Buster and his friends are androids, of course. But who owns Buster and his friends? The Killers, i.e., the Jews and their spiritual equivalents.

This can be inferred from the fact that Buster and his friends make a point of mocking Mercerism, just as the Jewish media mock Christianity (pp. 487–88). Killers and androids are hostile to Mercerism because their lack of empathy excludes them from the communal fusion that is the religion’s central practice. Thus Isidore concluded that “[Buster] and Wilbur Mercer are in competition. . . . Buster Friendly and Mercerism are fighting for control of our psychic souls” (pp. 488, 489). It is a struggle between empathy and cold, sociopathic intellect.

Near the end of the novel, Buster Friendly goes beyond mockery by broadcasting an exposé showing that Mercerism is a fraud. The rock-strewn slope is a sound stage, the moonlit sky a painted backdrop, and Mercer himself is just an old drunk named Al Jarry hired to act the part of the suffering savior. Mercerism, we are told, is merely a mind control device manipulated by politicians to make the public more tractable — just the opiate of the masses.

The androids are delighted, of course, because if Mercerism is a fraud, then maybe so too is empathy, the one thing that allegedly separates androids from human beings. And empathy can be fake, because in the very first chapter of the novel, we learn of the existence of a device called the Penfield Mood Organ, which can induce any mood imaginable if you just input the correct code.

The exposé is true. But none of it matters. Because the magic of Mercerism still works. J. R. Isidore has a vision of Mercer without the empathy box, and Mercer gives him the spider mutilated by the androids, miraculously restored to life. Mercer himself admits the truth of the exposé to Isidore, but still it does not matter. Then Mercer appears to Deckard and helps him kill the remaining androids. Near the end of the novel, Mercer appears to Deckard again and leads him to a toad, a species previously thought to be extinct, which deeply consoles Deckard. His wife Iran, however, discovers the toad is mechanical. The spider probably is as well. But even these fake animals do not undermine the healing magic of Mercerism.

I wish to suggest that Dick’s point is that the historical dimension of Mercerism—and, by implication, of Christianity—does not matter. It can all be fake: the incarnation, the sacrifices, even the miracles can be fake. But the magic still works. This is, in short, a version of the Gnostic doctrine of “Docetism”: the idea that the Christ is an entirely spiritual being and his outward manifestations, including the incarnation, are not metaphysically real.

This may be the sense of J. R. Isidore’s perhaps crack-brained account of a widespread view of Mercer’s nature: “. . . Mercer, he reflected, isn’t a human being; he evidently is an entity from the stars, superimposed on our culture by a cosmic template. At least that’s what I’ve heard people say . . .” (p. 484). A more likely account is that Mercer is a spiritual entity who takes on material forms imposed by our cultural template. Mercer can also employ technological fakery, such as Penfield Mood Organs, mechanical animals, and cheap cinematic tricks, to effect genuine spiritual transformations.

If this is the case, then Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? can be read as offering the template of a revived Gnostic Christianity that is immune to the Jewish culture of critique.

 

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  1. Peter Quint says:
    April 4, 2014 at 10:20 am

    What is a good definition for the term gnostic? I have read that it is christianity with a knowledge of magical tricks, kinda like the catholics and their King Solomon book (that book they used in the Exorcist) for exorcisms, making holy water, sanctifying holy ground and what-not.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      April 4, 2014 at 10:33 am

      It is a form of early Christianity, later declared heretical, that rejects the material world, including the incarnation of Christ, in favor of an ascetic and spiritual orientation. One Gnostic, Marcion, claimed that the God of the Old Testament was not the true God, but an evil being who created the material world, and that Jesus came to save mankind from the God of the Jews.

      1. Peltast says:
        April 4, 2014 at 4:46 pm

        There is also the theory that Saint Paul was a Gnostic.

      2. Pelican says:
        April 4, 2014 at 7:36 pm

        During the first 150 years or so of Christianity, gnosticism was (by far) the main belief system, although there were many disagreements. It posited, however, that Jehovah (“Ialdabaoth”, “Samael”, the god of the 7th heaven, the demiurge, the god of the jews) was a false god. Jesus, the son of the true god (the god of the ogdoad (8th heaven), the unnameable, unknowable, ineffable effable all) came to remind humanity that, by the the mercy of heaven, a spark of divinity had been implanted into souls. Hence, the gnostic was able to discern his affinity with the true god and could be freed from the deceptions of YVHW. One book I read characterized gnosticism as intellectual antisemitism.

        Time passed, gnosticism was supplanted by orthodoxy, and Jehovah became inextricably identified as the father of Jesus. If there be truth to gnosticism, then the war against it would represent a most sinister maneuvering by the forces of confusion. Can you imagine: Jesus comes to expose Ialdabaoth and his minions make him Jesus’ father and merge the old and new testaments into one edition? As far as I know, nowhere is Jesus ever quoted as identifying his “father” by name, which is interesting, no? In fact, we have John 8:44 and other similar things. Wouldst that things didn’t have to be so confusing.

        The Nazis (and their precursors from the late 1800s, especially) were incensed by the machinations and traits of the god of the old testament (his anger, jealousy, pettiness, etc.) and I believe there were those in the Thule Society who flirted with gnostic thinking.

        In 1948, the Nag Hammadi manuscripts were discovered in Palestine, and can be purchased easily, should anyone be curious to follow up. These are mostly gospels that never made it into the officially sanctioned works contained in the bible.

        Dick’s “Valis” trilogy is considered to be the most gnostic of his writings. Every once in awhile a gnostic, or a gnostic movement emerges (the Cathars, William Blake) but these are few and far between. I haven’t read “Electric Sheep”, but I’ll bet Greg is right in his analysis. I have a copy and will now get around to it. Thanks, Greg.

        I must love to point out, since I often do it, and have even done so here before, that Marcion, the Bishop of Ephesus, and the leader of the Marcionites, limited accepted scripture to the Gospel of Luke and to the Epistles of Paul. The reason: these were the only sources that could be trusted as not “judaizing” things. The sentiment was, I believe, that heaven needed to turn to Saul of Tarsus because the twelve apostles weren’t doing things quite right. Google “Marcion” for some context and elaboration. The history of the early church is always fascinating and usually full of insights into contemporary affairs.

        There is a big debate about this, but I count myself among those who believe gnosticism is pre-Christian as well. Also, let me throw out that gnosticism, with its abhorrence of the material world, can leave one gasping for the sun and fun one can find in say, Hellenic paganism. I wish I could definitively recommend it or not but, alas, religion seems to be ever an open topic for me.

        1. Petronius says:
          April 4, 2014 at 8:53 pm

          William Blake had a totally gnostic/marcionistic conception, Jahwe of the Old Testament was the prime villain, the evil “nobodaddy” and Jesus the redeemer from that demiurgical God (also called or at least closely related to Urizen in Blake’s mythopoetry). Unlike Marcion or the Kathars he put much emphasis in the love for the physical world and all its pleasures, though. Blake’s mythology was certainly as much as confused and full of contradictions as Dick’s own gnostic vision in his later years. There are aspects of (probably drug-induced) paranoid schizophrenia in Dick, especially the motive of things being a diabolic “fake” and the inability to touch “real things”. There are cases of schizophrenia, where patients firmly believe that their wife and children have been replaced by satanic doubles. Huxley also points out how hellish visions or states of the mind (as can be found with psychotics, who literally think they are dead and damned to hell) always include a sense of a ghastly “unreality”, of “fake”, deception, betrayal.. while heavenly states are the perception of full “realness” , of truth, of Be-ing as Heidegger maybe would say…

        2. Jaego says:
          April 6, 2014 at 2:28 pm

          How can one leave out the most “Greek” of all the Gospels and the one most hated by the Jews, namely the Gospel of St John? Foxman and others have demanded it be changed. Also see the condemnation of the Jews by Stephen in the Acts of the Apostles.

          St Paul has an unbelievably Anti-Gentile statement, forget where. He says the only reason Gentiles were grafted onto the Nation of Israel was because Jews had fallen away. This doesn’t fit with the Great Commission of Christ to preach to all Nations at all, nor to any healthy self image of a healthy Christian or Christianity. Or to an image of a Universal God needless to say. He does take the Jews to task elsewhere and of course he suffered their persecutions. But he obviously fell back into his old belief system at times.

          1. Pelican says:
            April 6, 2014 at 9:32 pm

            Some good questions/points. I never researched this far enough to learn of Marcion’s rationale for picking Luke and Paul. It would be of great interest to know, however. Moreover, to raise another good question, what exactly were the “judaizers” up to? I mean: precisely?

  2. Jim Linden says:
    April 4, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    How does a gnostic stack up against a stoic? Or a Buddhist?

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      April 4, 2014 at 5:18 pm

      These are Wikipedia questions.

    2. Peltast says:
      April 4, 2014 at 10:28 pm

      Professor Revilo Oliver had a low opinion of the Stoic philosophy, it was created by Zeno of Kition, a Phoenician merchant (Canaanite, maybe even a Jew).

      The original Stoic philosophy was pure communism, but later was re-worked to become a philosophy palatable to Romans.

  3. Randall Crowley says:
    April 4, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    It is time for a rereading of P.K. Dick, an old favorite. My understanding is that William Burroughs came up with the title Blade Runner. Funny how Hollywood changes the name Rosen Associates to the Tyrell Corporation for reasons of crypsis in culture. Just a few such changes and embarrassing meaning is obscured. There must have been intense itching on the trigger finger to change the name of Emmanuel Goldstein from the movie 1984 but they could hardly have gotten away with that considering the fame of the book and character. Nowadays the name would be changed at the level of publishing I suspect.

  4. Udolpho says:
    April 4, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    Interesting theory. You might be interested in reading my article, written back in 2011, on the subject of anti-Semitic themes in DADOES: Do Paranoids Dream of Electric Jews?. There is some discussion there as well about some biographical facts which line up with the idea that he wrote DADOES in a period in which he may havbe been particularly critical of Jewish ideas following a divorce from his Jewish wife Anne Rubinstein. Anne claimed that several “evil wife” characters after that were based on her.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      April 4, 2014 at 10:57 pm

      Thanks for the tip. Will read immediately. Aside from two readings of the book, I did NO research to write this article, for fear of losing my amateur status.

      1. Udolpho says:
        April 4, 2014 at 11:30 pm

        Thanks. I missed the comparison between android resignation and Jewish resignation during the Holocaust–that’s a good find.

  5. Peter Quint says:
    April 5, 2014 at 9:22 am

    Thanks for all the good answers on gnosticism. I wonder if John Carpenters’ “Prince Of Darkness” had elements of gnosticism in it? I am a fan of Carpenter’s work and I find the mythology in “Prince Of Darkness” interesting, too bad it was not fully developed. Anybody got any thoughts on the “Prince Of Darkness” and gnosticism?

  6. rhondda says:
    April 5, 2014 at 5:29 pm

    When the Dali Lama said that westerners should look to their own traditions and I took that to heart, I explored the gnostic gospels first. Why not begin there was my reasoning. There are a few of them. A lot of women took to the Gospel of Mary (Madelene) with great enthusiasm. In fact a whole cult grew out of that which Dan Brown exploited in the the Da Vinci Code. There are even academic postmodern books written about her. Not a whore after all. The problem with that is it goes nowhere. While seeing the old testament jealous god as strictly Jewish may be a way to cut the proverbial Gordian Knot, the majority of Christians believe in the continuity of the old and new testament which most mainstream churches adhere to with great faith. I ended up rejecting the Gnostic beliefs because they rejected everything natural for a purely spiritual way of being. Spiritual being that the earth and all in it are nothing. There is a horizontal plain as well as a vertical one. If one strictly goes off into the spiritual, then in a way that is extremely selfish. You are abandoning those who may need you to help them. (like exploited animals and children put in the sex trade) If I may indulge in more Taoist
    lore, Kwan Yin reached the highest state and chose to return to help others rather than become more holy. She is beloved because of that act. Or for Christians, she was the good Samaritan. The whole Christian idea of helping each other has been exploited to mean that white people must give much more than they ever receive. Women have been at the forefront of this martyr complex. Hence the derogatory term “church woman” who judges others by a standard that is much more animus than anima to use Jungian terms.
    I do not have answers. That is why I am here at Counter-currents.
    However, I do think Dr. Johnson is right. Our race has to become our religion. We have to love our people more than any other and when we disagree on something we need to step back and reassess. If we don’t get it together, we are gone.

  7. William Spencook says:
    November 26, 2015 at 12:51 am

    I would love to see this essay submitted to the upcoming Cal State Philip K Dick Conference.
    https://sfatcsuf.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
    However, given the nature of Greg’s essay, and the hostile political climate on college campuses to diversity of thought today, maybe it wouldn’t be worth the effort?

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 26, 2015 at 1:35 am

      I just submitted it. Thanks for the heads up.

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