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Mood-altering drugs are Huxley's soma
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<img attachment="doug_stanhope_-_no_refunds.webp" align="right" title="Doug Stanhope - No Refunds">The comedy set <a href="https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/doug-stanhope-no-refunds-transcript/" author="Doug Stanhope" source="Scraps from the Loft" date="2007">No Refunds</a> includes the following bit,
<bq>The only drugs that are even popular anymore are all the… <b>dummy drugs, all the drugs that make you more boring.</b> All the mood stabilizer, antidepressant… Everyone’s got some mental disorder they’ve been diagnosed with, and they take a f*cking pill.
They push them on me all the time. I’ve ruined so many relationships, ’cause, you know, ’cause I think. I f*cking think all the time, sorry.
“Oh, jeez, oh, you, you… It’s ADD.”
<b>No, it’s not ADD, I’m thinking. I’m thinking about a lot of stuff. That’s not ADD.</b> Yeah, I stutter a lot and I f*ck stuff up, but I’m… That’s ’cause I’m always thinking.
<b>“Well, you’re not listening to me.”</b>
<b>‘Cause I’m thinking about something that’s more interesting than you!</b> I’m trying to build a perfect Utopian society in my head, and what are you talking to me about? Bowling or what?
And I do, <b>I have a head that won’t shut the f*ck up.</b>
<b>That’s where the ideas come from</b> Do you have a head like that? Do you have the brain that just won’t shut the f*ck up all the time?
(applause)
<b>You learn to work with it.</b></bq>
In another bit, he made a joke about this guy named Harry Levin<fn>, who is apparently such a terrible person that he said that even most Jewish people would agree that had Hitler succeeded in his goals, if it would have led to a world where Harry Levin were never to have been born and, given that, the Holocaust would have been acceptable collateral damage. Stanhope is a madman but he's brilliant.
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<ft>I actually don't know who this is but, imagining that Harry is a jackass is more than enough to understood the joke, man.</ft>