These recent shootings (the
Colorado Theater, The mall shooting in Oregon, and last week's truly sickening school
shooting in Ct) have me thinking a great deal about Pharmaceutical
drugs designed to alter our brains, and to alter our natural ability to
interact with Society, and our natural surroundings.
All
these whack-jobs seemed to be "different" people who were all taking a
myriad of psychotropic drugs prescribed to help them deal with their
mental differences.
I'm reminded of a book I read 20 years ago.
Aldous
Huxley's novel "Brave New World" was written in 1931 (while the world
was mired in the last major economic and societal malaise,
coincidentally); and it offers a fictional look into a future world
similar to the one more popularly novelized by George Orwell with
"1984".
In Huxley's book, the future world is a single nation-state where the
vast majority of people are reduced to little more than human livestock
that merrily go about their days living in complete blissfull ignorance
to the fact that they are slaves to an invisible elite class that keeps
them drugged (literally) with a supplement called Soma, and also
drugged (figuratively) with the promise of societal peace and uniform
security.
In Huxley’s novel, the supplement Soma dispels any anxieties or negative emotion.
The people become compliant, ambivalent robots who never feel the urge
to think critically, or to fight back against the ones who oppress them
intellectually.
The saying in the book was, “One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.”
In
America today, the government controlled drug industry has thousands of
pills full of synthetic chemical compounds designed to treat every
depressive or unhappy thought that might affect you, and others that are
designed to turn your children into perfect little angels, making the
burden of raising them easier on the "grown ups", who have far too
little time these days to actually stop and invest the time necessary to
explain to their kids how the real world actually works.
Huxley's Soma, it seems, has become very real in the form of Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, Xanex, and, coincidentally, an actual muscle relaxant called {drum roll} ..... Soma
But remember:
You
are NOT allowed to try and "treat" your own unhappiness with an
unapproved natural (and probably banned)
substance like cocaine, THC, or opium. These are DANGEROUS naturally
occurring chemicals; and the threat of imprisonment always lurks in the
shadows if you choose your own form of mind altering substance, versus
choosing a synthetic chemical concoction that is declared to be "safe"
for you by your elite economic overlords, and which (only
coincidentally) happens to generate profit for them...
So,
a synthetic drug that alters the brain, and possibly produces a
psycopathic killer as a by-product, is ok, just as long as it is "FDA
Approved" ; while a natural drug that makes you mellow, hyper, or hungry
for nachos, is NOT allowed in the "Brave New World"...
