This is... incredible. Now that this dial has been discovered, if you were given control of it, would you turn it? Will Facebook turn it for all of us? Looking past how troubling the idea of being manipulated is, what positive things can we do with it? My dear young friend, said Mustapha Mond, civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise. Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended–there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. But there arent any wars nowadays. The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much. Theres no such thing as a divided allegiance; youre so conditioned that you cant help doing what you ought to do. And what you ought to do is on the whole so pleasant, so many of the natural impulses are allowed free play, that there really arent any temptations to resist. And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, theres always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And theres always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears–thats what soma is. UPDATE: #EverythingIsAwesome
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:17:03 +0000
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