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6 days Ago

Mood-altering drugs are Huxley’s soma

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 The comedy set No Refunds by Doug Stanhope in 2007 (Scraps from the Loft) includes the following bit,

“The only drugs that are even popular anymore are all the… dummy drugs, all the drugs that make you more boring. 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... [More]”

1 week Ago

The misery is baked in

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The cartoon below writes,

“Human: God, why the hell is everyone so miserable?

“God: You structured your economy so that poets, painters, and writers have the worst money-to-talent ratio of anyone, then tasked them with talking about what life is like!

“All of your greatest stories are brought to you by a scorned underclass who already hated themselves before they were told they deserve nothing because their job isn’t real.”

It is not rare for the SMBC punchline to be in the middle of the comic.... [More]