The story depicts a tenuous alliance between the Reich and the Japanese, but it is on a knife’s edge, likened to The Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. The counter balance to the Reich in The Man in the High Castle is the Japanese Empire.
This point is exacerbated by the Smith family’s story arc as Thomas’ self-sacrifice not only begins to unravel the family but also reveals how each one grieves death and loss in a world where God is dead and hope is lost, which is the most chilling vision of The Man in the High Castle-a world that has sacrificed hope on the altar of calculated scientific efficiency and flourishing. The world the Nazi Party creates is a world without God or devoid of anything spiritual. Reich leaders are not chosen on merit, but by who is the most fit to lead and can eliminate their competition the most effectively as depicted by John Smith, played by Rufus Sewell. Friedrich Nietzsche’s nihilistic worldview is blatantly evident in the Reich as well as secularism, rationalism, and even downright Darwinian. The irony is that these are Western philosophical ideas taken to its extreme and exercised to their fullest potential. In the twenty years of being a superpower, the Reich has exponentially grown propagated its ideal, thus creating a world that is rational, efficient, precise, and cold. One of the hardest things for the human mind to grasp is the power of exponential growth in anything-what happens when something keeps doubling or tripling or quadrupling over many years and just how big the numbers can get.(4) Advances such as international video conferencing and record intercontinental flight that put our modern Facetime and airlines to shame.
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Some of the technology displayed in both the book and series are already miles ahead of what the U.S. Achievements such as draining the Mediterranean Sea to make room for agricultural land, developing both the atomic and the hydrogen bomb, colonizing the moon, Venus, and Mars, and mastering inter-dimensional travel to alternate universes. In this alternate timeline, by 1962, the Germans have not only militarily taken over half of the world, but have also accomplished great feats of science. The theory first postulated by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that the speed and power of microchips-that is computational processing power-would double roughly every year.(3) In both the book and series, the Nazis have taken Gordon Moore’s Law and dialed it to ten. Unencumbered by morality, resources, and adversaries, the Reich achieves technological and scientific breakthroughs that only a purely rational national socialist regime could produce.
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The Man in the High Castle depicts Hitler’s dream come true, realized to its full extent. I want young people capable of violence, imperious, relentless, cruel. I freed Germany from the stupid and degrading fallacies of conscience, morality… We will train young people before whom the whole world will tremble. Aside from his racial ideological views and absolute claim to the superiority of the Aryan race, Adolf Hitler notes, Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf gives a glimpse at what his dreams and aspirations were. It is not difficult for one to imagine a world ruled by the Third Reich with Adolf Hitler’s ideals so plainly stated and executed during the 1930s. The prevailing ideologies of the Nazi Party or “ The Reich,” and the Japanese Empire shape the world of The Man in the High Castle. In this historical fiction, 1962 America is divided with the Greater Nazi Reich in control of the eastern seaboard through the mid-west states, the Japanese controlling the Pacific States, and a Neutral Zone encompassing the Rocky Mountain states. Dick, The Man in the High Castle explores how people would either survive or thrive in this dystopian alternative history. Based on a book by the same title by Philip K. Kennedy was not assassinated? My personal favorite, what would the world look like if the Axis powers won World War II? Frank Spotnitz captures the essence of what an Axis dominated world would look like in his four season Amazon Video drama The Man in the High Castle (2016-2019). What if the British defeated the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War? What if John F. As a student of history, alternative versions of timelines have always fascinated me.
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