Philip Dick, Man In The High Castle - Robert Childan, American Antiquities Dealer

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel The Man In The High Castle It focuses specifically on one of the main characters of the work, the dealer in American antiquities, Robert Childan, who is a person beset by multiple ambiguities. He accepts the racial hierarchy imposed by the Nazis and the Japanese, but also reacts against it. He suffers from an inferiority complex towards the Japanese, desires to be accepted by them, but also believes them at points to be a merely imitative people. He also is the person though whom Frank Frink's jewelry, imbued with wu, is discovered and brought to the attention of the Japanese, and he rises to the occasion to choose a kind of solidarity with the American artificers To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler You can get a copy of Man In The High Castle here - https://amzn.to/45yJ2ie