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Re:Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising ... by teekert on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:17AM (#22055507)
Maybe we can just create a lower underclass that we make too stupid to care for growth by subjecting them to alcohol during pregnancy and provide them with drugs that will simply allow them to be content by being.
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Re:Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising ... by slumdev on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:32PM (#22056205)
FAS is correlated with low socioeconomic status of the parent(s). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860552/

Likewise, poor educational outcomes not caused by FAS are also correlated with low socioeconomic status of the parent(s). And we already have the "content by being" drugs -- tobacco, alcohol, and television.

If that doesn't look like a permanent underclass that we're snowing with Soma, I don't know what would.

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Re:Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising ... by AdmiralGinge on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:17PM (#22057450)
In all seriousness, Brave New World is an excellent book. It's quite startling how much Huxley got right (and also what he got wrong, instead of soma we actually got the complete opposite with an international version of American prohibition). The general premise that it's easier to keep the population ignorant by barraging us with endless trivial rubbish than than 1984-style authoritarian "Ministries of Truth" is spot on I think.

Huxley is definitely on my top ten list of favourite authors.

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Re:Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising ... by teekert on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:02AM (#22062243)
True but I always see TV, social networks, 9gag and tiktok like apps as soma. I take a gramme and only am.
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Re:Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising ... by aketchum on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:43PM (#22056324)
Is this a Brave New World reference?
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Re:Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising ... by teekert on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:22PM (#22057503)
Yes :)
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