Drugs

"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.

Science fiction?

It is already happening to some extent in our own society.

Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs.

In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable."

? Theodore Kaczynski

"A pill to make you numb
A pill to make you dumb
A pill to make you anybody else...But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself"

? Marilyn Manson


"A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole."

? Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book


"Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction."
? William S. Burroughs