More than just clutter, Kipple is a spiritual and transcendent reflection of humanity's desire to collect commodities and then let them degrade and degenerate as they collect. Kipple is Dick's reflection on the nature of accumulated stuffs. "There's the First Law of Kipple…'Kipple drives out nonkipple'." Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, 63. One of the novel's major themes revolves around the question of what traits make something human and what trait ensures survival or defeat. In this quote, Rick Deckard ponders the vague lines drawn between those creatures that are empathetic and those things which do not have that ability.
This quote illustrates the binary oppositions that Dick attempts to first frame, then to tear apart.
".ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated." Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 29. The government hopes to persuade people that the only way to regenerate society is in a new land, yet as the novel progresses, glimpses of new life on earth are seen. Though governmental authority does not play as large a role in this novel as in some of other Dick novels, this quote does illustrate the American government's own degeneration after World War Terminus. This quote is the government's tag line for encouraging people to emigrate from earth to Mars. "'Emigrate or degenerate! The choice is yours!'" Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, 6.
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