Talk:kipple

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Latest comment: 1 year ago by Equinox in topic over simplification
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over simplification[edit]

Kipple and kippleization are not simply useless items or junk. As introduced by the character John Isidore in the first pages of Electric Sheep, it an active process of "greater entropic ruin", and as he elaborates later, it effects specifically the objects and products made by people, "objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape." It is a force to be reckoned with and as John says: "No one can win against kipple" 136.152.143.67 17:47, 10 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

In the everyday sense in plain modern English, I doubt it has such a specialised meaning, even if the inventor intended it to mean that. Equinox 20:45, 10 August 2022 (UTC)Reply