Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone?

Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by moron4hire on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @10:31AM (#6090249)

I think historians will look back at the early 21st century and note that Soma was best served digitally, rather than chemically.

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by bqe on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @03:48PM (#6092464)

This sort of trite criticism of the hoi polloi is easy and lazy.

People are better informed than ever, read more than ever, and are more satisfied with their lives than ever. You dismiss this monumental progress by calling it a drug.

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by pessimizer on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @04:02PM (#6092550)

I need references for all three of those claims.

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by mike_ivanov on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @04:15PM (#6092610)

> more satisfied with their lives than ever

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/05/chart-americas-r...

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by grabhive on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @10:40AM (#6090294)

Precisely what I came here to say.

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by pitt1980 on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @11:41AM (#6090705)

what does this mean?

what is Soma?

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by jrwoodruff on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @11:46AM (#6090751)

Reference to 'Brave New World.' From Wikipedia:

...Soma is a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable, hangover-free "holidays". It was developed by the World State to provide these inner-directed personal experiences within a socially managed context of State-run 'religious' organizations; social clubs.

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by throwaway1979 on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @11:49AM (#6090766)

A fictional drug used to keep the masses in check. It is from the classic "Brave New World". His comment is quite cute in that regards :)

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by nslamberth on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @12:23PM (#6091023)

Soma was the recreational drug in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", a sci-fi dystopia book that presented a different view of the future than Orwell's 1984.

In it, the government uses entertainment and technology to keep people within their assigned classes as opposed to military force and surveillance.

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by kar-kub on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @12:09PM (#6090919)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

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Re:Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? by tomrod on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @11:52AM (#6090796)

My best guess: something referring to Brave New World/1984/Clockwork Orange?

Or perhaps this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma

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