The Days Of Perik Summary

The unknown instills human kind with one of two things, either fear or curiosity. Danny Gokey once said “replace fear of the unknown with curiosity”. Some people look toward the future, and to the unknown who curiosity and hope of what is to come. However, the more pessimistic seem to embody the words of H.P. Lovecraft, “The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”. The Rise of Nuclear Fear-How We Learned to Fear the Radiation written by David Ropeik, talks about the very real fear caused by radiation and nuclear power. The Days of Perky Pat written by Philip K. Dick shows a likely post apocalyptic world after a nuclear war. The unknown can destroy us, or it can inspire us. Perky Pat is a game played with a doll by fictional

It could be argued that putting man on the moon was an attempt to give human kind a possible second chance if we ever messed up this home. It could also be argued it was just a lucky result of fear that put man on the moon. Either way, fear drove man to grow. We see that the fear of nuclear power, led many societies back to a less effective, more polluting form of power in coal. Again, both of these show two different reactions. Roepik also pointed out nuclear fears gave birth to skepticism of technology, science, and

The unknown can often be dangerous, but the author of the article points, out sometimes the fear is irrational. The cancer death of the survivors was less than one percent, no biological effects have been found in those who had lower doses of radiation. The unknown itself is not good or bad, it is neutral. How we choose to react to the unknown is what defines us. We can be like the people who feared change with Perky Pat, and probably stopped growing or we can be like the Oakland people who