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.