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Buried lede: BR2049 is LESS dystopian than our world today.

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"feminism has this defeminizing effect of women on society"

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A cyborg has a mechanical element in their makeup. Clones or replicants are purely organic.

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1st. Deckard is a replicant not a cyborg. Replicants are essentially clones. Think British sheep.

2nd. Phillip K Dick the author was jewish and this movie is one of dozens that portay the plight of the golem (goyem). This has been a theme for this group for centuries and the main plot for hundreds of works of litterature.

3rd. The prostitutes were all replicants.

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How are they clones and not cyborgs? PKD was Irish not Jewish. Yes I came to the conclusion that the hookers were replicants but it made no sense bc why would you need a hologram gf if you could just get a replicant? I speculated that perhaps it was bc the replicants had free will and couldn’t be preprogrammed like the hologram -

The golem metaphor might still work even if he wasn’t Jewish

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He was in love with his AI GF and replicant was possessed by the AI. Think role play sex. This was the only way she could consumate his desire for her.

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His mother, in fact was jewish, which as you know makes him jewish. He also, on several occasions spoke about how jewish writers and the religion greatly influenced his works.

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I know about the influence on Jewish writer on his work but as far as I know he’s Irish!

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and I want to be an 8ft NBA player. By Law, History and Custom he is Jewish.

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If his mother is Jewish yeah, or if his father is. I’m not refuting that. What I’m saying is prove to me his mom was Jewish! Where are you getting that from

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I have known this for so many decades that I could never recall the interview source. I have tried to look up a current, but none offer an account of his mother's heritage. The internet is vastly different and edited in todays world. If I ever find my old OMNI (the likely source) magazines and find the article I will cite it for you.

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Thank you for all that you do :-)

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I don’t think you can find it bc he’s not

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I always got the sense that the replicants are closer to genetically modified human clones than androids

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That makes sense in a way in that they act more like clones, but it’s explicit that they’re cyborgs

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