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Though I wouldn't put it beyond Jon to create and guide a world that didn't develop masked adventurers or superheroes to see if they didn't make different choices.


However, I always took that statement to mean that Dr Manhattan was just going off to some far corner of the universe to pursue his god like ambitions. After all the universe is a pretty huge place.

Now I'm going from memory, but it was something like the Axis powers had won WWII and the USA was under German and Japanese rule. The Japanese were occupying the Western part of the country and the Germans occupied the Eastern half.
Anyway, in this alternate history, there was a guy who had written a book that was an alternate history where the Allies had won WWII, so it could have been our universe that he had written about.
That PKD and his crazy alternate reality ideas!

Now I'm going from memory, but it was something li..."
My memory says that the Allies-Win alternate history in the The Man In The High Castle was different again to what happenned in our world... something about US and American troops reinforcing the Russians at Stalingrad and so on.


Like others, I've always taken this simply to reveal Jon to be (a) God intent on creating his own Genesis in a remote corner of the universe. This short of suggests that he could only be the creator of our 'alternate' to their reality if everyone understood that the age of the world could be numbered in decades (or not more than 6,000 years old anyway).
I just don't think Jon would be that kind of being and, given the long exchange with Laurie on Mars, what he loves about human life is the infinitesimally tiny odds that we manage to exist at all - in other words, if his love of life is the way that it seems to organise chaos into meaning then it seems unlikely that he would use his powers to create a world that was almost exactly the same as the one he had left (i.e. that had had an Alexander the Great, a Roman Empire, a War of Independence etc.)

Not incompatible with ba's idea. But I don't see much support for ba's idea, either.
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