The purpose of the story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” is to question our own memories. As we know already, the only thing we can truly trust is what we ourselves have personally perceived, because it is this one part of our existence that we can accept as true. Of course we store all of this knowledge that we have learned in our memories, so to imagine that our own memories are not trustworthy is possibly one of the most frightening things possible. Not only does this mean that our lives that we know are false, but also that all of the knowledge that we have compiled (which we have until this point assumed as impossible to be false) has been falsified as well. This means that we are now left with nothing to believe other than what we can perceive at this moment. Though this is difficult. I may believe to know for certain that I wrote that previous line, in fact I can not truly trust my memory because I am not absolutely positive that I truly did write that line, I only assume that I did based on a possibly falsified memory.
Now this means that our existence could be falsified like in “They”. However, this is to a new level, where we do not even know if what we believe is real really is real. Our very minds cannot be trusted because you can never know when your thoughts are truly yours or in fact just planed by another person. For all we know we just came into existence this very moment with an entire lifetime of false memories and emotions and thoughts and opinion in out minds. Our identities are not ours anymore but belong to someone else who can make people whatever he wants them to be, destroying all free will. It may not be logical to say that we just came into existence with so much “proof” in the world to say otherwise. However, if we truly did just come into existence then any “proof” that may exist would have been planted by those who fitted us with our memories, and our “logic” would only be the logic that those who implanted our thoughts wanted us to have in order to blind us from the truth. We cannot truly know what is real based on our own perception any more because even when we think we are certain of “reality” it is always possible that it is in fact just the “reality” that has been imposed on us.