Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone?

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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