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Intractable

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2. Worth mentioning is that it was a "Brave New World" of drug addicts.

Reply to sir pball (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:19 PM

Oct 13

Those in the lower castes (betas through epsilons) were given the Soma drug to pacify them, thus preserving the hegemony on which the alphas sit. They waited in lines for their Soma.

If this Trumped up facist government of ours were smart, they wouldn't just legalize pot, they'd give it out for free!

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We are in a Brave New World dystopia, and it's very hard to fight. [View all] sir pball Oct 13 OP

- cough - dweller Oct 13 #1

Worth mentioning is that it was a "Brave New World" of drug addicts. Intractable Oct 13 #2

They give internet content away for "free." TommyT139 Oct 14 #3

What we're living through isn't Orwell, and it isn't Huxley. Morbius Oct 14 #4