The Man in the High Castle

Today I watched a strange movie called Screamers, and after wikipeding it, discovered it was based on a short story by Philp K Dick. So I looked in my bookshelf and began to read one of his books. While reading it, I came across the following passage (slightly modified):

... Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Not of honorable men but of honor itself, the abstract is real, the action is invisible to them. And I know why. They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. It is not hubris, not pride; it is the inflation of the ego to its ultimate- confusion between him who worships and that which is worshiped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man...

When reading this, I imagined that I was listening to a speech from Barak Obama to a raptured crowd of leftist Democrats. They chant of change, and hope, and unity- but reject changing to new policies and new ideas in order to return to the failed ones of the past, they do not hope but talk of how we have lost and failed and bankrupted, and they do not want to unify but instead crush all who oppose them. They do not value change, hope, and unity- they value the abstract idea of these things. They do not want to be real people in history, they think they personally can change history- Obama himself has said that voting for him will change the history of the world. And not by actually changing anything- again, the abstract idea of being an agent of history is more important than doing anything, just like being a community organizer is more important than actually organizing a community. And we all know Obama's position on God- he thinks people cling to it religion because they're bitter, while he goes to the Wright church of hate. Listening to Obama and seeing his supporters is to watch the world go mad. They do not worship God- they demand to be worshipped.

Oh, the passage in the book though was not referring to Obama, or Democrats, or liberals, or anything like that. The passage from the book was describing the Nazi's and their ideology. Interesting.