Chapter 6

Chapter 6 really delves further into the ideas of Mercerism and explaining the Empathy Box, which, to me, sounds entirely too inhuman and (I'd even venture to say) chillingly horrifying. Isidore takes the house-warming-gift to 'Pris Stratton' and explains the idea of 'kipple' to her and how he believes that the "entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization." This really highlights the unfair prejudices put on the 'chickenheads' left on Earth. J.R. now believes that he does not have the same equalities of the regulars or even the androids, simply because that is what he's told (and perhaps a bit because he's deformed by the radiation). There is much discussion of 'entropy' throughout this chapter as well, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Toward the end of the chapter, I honestly began to think that perhaps Rachael Rowson and Pris were the same person trying to hide under a sur-name, then thought that Pris was a Nexus-6 simply trying to fool a 'fool' when her plan was foiled by the popular name she gave.