"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

[Whiteman's Burden]

I haven't read this story since the early nineties. I thought it was a good representation of a distopia.

What comes to mind is the Soma holiday in which people carried a drug with them that they could always dose themselves with if they were feeling overwhelmed or depressed.

Life has become like fiction. While I believe that medications do play an important and crucial role in the well being of many people there is a problem these days to overmedicate and I think its motivating factor is to sell more drugs so as to increase big pharma's profit than just a simple overdiagnosis of symptoms or illness.

[skillet]

yes, an excellent book. an acquaintance of mine, nickname "Spike", felt we should all have such a drug, i mean, you can't just live out of an appleby room or something

[Undertow]

I was actually going to ask if anyone has read Brave New World. I have always wanted to check it out but I never have gotten around to it. I heard from many people it is damn good.

As far as the pharmaceutical companies go, it is the biggest scam going, at least in America. They are evil and among many things, they like to make up diseases or syndromes. My latest favorite is 'restless leg syndrome'. Not exactly sure what that is but I bet they have a pill that will fix it for a hefty price. Then after it gets recalled in a few years I would get some other debilitating shit from the recalled pills that another pill would surely fix, for a price.

[LaTrine Jakscoon]

I read that years ago, excellent book :thum

[skillet]

I was actually going to ask if anyone has read Brave New World. I have always wanted to check it out but I never have gotten around to it. I heard from many people it is damn good.

As far as the pharmaceutical companies go, it is the biggest scam going, at least in America. They are evil and among many things, they like to make up diseases or syndromes. My latest favorite is 'restless leg syndrome'. Not exactly sure what that is but I bet they have a pill that will fix it for a hefty price. Then after it gets recalled in a few years I would get some other debilitating shit from the recalled pills that another pill would surely fix, for a price.


Between restless leg syndrome and fibromyalgia, I don't know which one scams the public more. You're so right, this mentality, a pill for everything...
nobody knows how to deal with life anymore

[Odin88]

Next to '1984' it is one of my favorites.

[whiteshadow]

This sequel of a sort, came out in 1957,25 years after Huxleys classic. In it,he said that the original book, was set some 500 or so years in the future,but, by 1957,he had moved it up,to centurys end. ironic that he died on november 22,1963.The sequal,gets into the dynamics of mind controp on the masses. A very good book.I found brave new world rather depressing,because the pure noble hero, a throw back to old times,gives up,they dont need to off him, he does the job himself.

[Nigger Blockage]

I was actually going to ask if anyone has read Brave New World. I have always wanted to check it out but I never have gotten around to it. I heard from many people it is damn good.

As far as the pharmaceutical companies go, it is the biggest scam going, at least in America. They are evil and among many things, they like to make up diseases or syndromes. My latest favorite is 'restless leg syndrome'. Not exactly sure what that is but I bet they have a pill that will fix it for a hefty price. Then after it gets recalled in a few years I would get some other debilitating shit from the recalled pills that another pill would surely fix, for a price.


Actually, the scam that is the worst is Turretz Syndrome. How can you have a disease where you curse? They claim that Turretz comes from birth, but how can you curse when you're of a young age and don't know any curse words.

[Taylor]

I have Tourette's, which, fortunately, is more or less completely controlled with medication. When I was a kid, it wasn't displayed as cursing but by extremely violent outbursts, apparently caused by an inability to fully articulate mental spasms. When I was two years old, or so my parents told me, I picked up the neighbor's rosy boa and ripped it in half and flung the pieces across a fence. I was also told that I rode my big wheel down the steep hill in front of our house directly into a guy's lit bbq grill while shrieking inarticulately at the top of my lungs. It bothers me that people think that Tourette's is a joke, though I can see why they might be skeptical. The last time I was out of the country I ran out of my meds and was repeating racial slurs constantly. I was lucky no one spoke english there, or I might have been killed. It's a terrible disease, and a terrible burden on oneself. I think the worst thing that ever happens when I'm faithfully taking my thorazine is that sometimes I can't stop myself from whispering "negronegronegronegronegronegro" over and over again.



Ha! We've got a weatherman on a local channel with Tourette's, and he does just fine. He can control the swearing, but can't control the random high-pitched shrieking. Needless to say he's a huge hit.

[Maleficarum]

I have Tourette's, which, fortunately, is more or less completely controlled with medication. When I was a kid, it wasn't displayed as cursing but by extremely violent outbursts, apparently caused by an inability to fully articulate mental spasms. When I was two years old, or so my parents told me, I picked up the neighbor's rosy boa and ripped it in half and flung the pieces across a fence. I was also told that I rode my big wheel down the steep hill in front of our house directly into a guy's lit bbq grill while shrieking inarticulately at the top of my lungs. It bothers me that people think that Tourette's is a joke, though I can see why they might be skeptical. The last time I was out of the country I ran out of my meds and was repeating racial slurs constantly. I was lucky no one spoke english there, or I might have been killed. It's a terrible disease, and a terrible burden on oneself. I think the worst thing that ever happens when I'm faithfully taking my thorazine is that sometimes I can't stop myself from whispering "negronegronegronegronegronegro" over and over again.

When I first cammed with you AM I almost shit myself but you know I'm cool with it now man. You can always give me a phone when you need to dude you know that.