261) Day 29 -- Reason #29 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Manufacturing Consent, Part 1: Skibidi toilet and a submarine implosion
In Aldous Huxley’s presciently brilliant dystopian novel, Brave New World, the population was placated with a pervasive, readily-available, socially normative drug — soma. The constant ingestion of soma kept people from ever really FEELING just how fucked their society was. Replacing traditional opium-of-the-masses institutions like the Church, soma was a way of escaping responsibility for, and even awareness of, one’s shitty circumstances.
“A gramme is better than a damn” was one slogan.
21) Gratitude Day 2: Humour
And, humour is weird. Like, our bodies convulse, our eyes water, animalistic, guttural noises come out of us, we flail our limbs around, sometimes slapping other parts of ourselves because we just don’t know how else to express the zany energy exploding out of us. We snort, squeal, sometimes fart, and then just laugh harder. ….humans are bizarre creatures, when you really think about what we’re doing in our moments of “meaningful” expression.