"You might also wanna look more closely at Brave New World and the writings
of Huxley, as he's the one who predicted the massive drugging of the public
into docility, which is what we see today. I mean, like half of kids these
days are on ritalin or lithium or god knows whatever groovy crap they come up
with next."
I didn't talk with Huxley personally, but the "soma" in brave new world seems
to be much more something like alcohol in our society; it's pretty normal and
accepted, and people need it in order to feel happy. Ritalin etc. is still
something people try to avoid;
so I think alcohol has better chances to become our "soma".
And yeah, it's a fantastic book everyone should read.
