Put another way - if you want to create a command/control/authoritarian society - what better way to do it then have a population of zoned out stoners who only care about eating Doritos, playing video games and are gullible when it comes to statements about how all this stuff is “good”, “fair”, “for the children” etc.
To me it all makes perfect sense. In fact in Brave New World I think Huxley described just such a world where (it’s been years but I seem to remember this) the population was using Soma I think it was.
Yeah, like in North Korea!
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