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To maintain the World State's Command Economy for the indefinite future, all citizens are conditioned from birth to value consumption with such platitudes as "ending is better than mending," i.e., buy a new one instead of fixing the old one, because constant consumption, and near-universal employment to meet society's material demands, is the bedrock of economic and social stability for the World State. Beyond providing social engagement and distraction in the material realm of work or play, the need for transcendence, solitude and spiritual communion is addressed with the ubiquitous availability and universally endorsed consumption of the drug soma
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There is no desire to change one's caste, largely because a person's sleep-conditioning teaches that his or her caste is superior to the other four.
Movies do seem to predict what the future may bring. For instance, in the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy sings "Over the Rainbow" about good times to come in the future. The movie came out in the 1930s right when the United States was recovering from the Great Depression. Americans were looking to the future and becoming increasingly hopeful about economic recovery and better standards of living. Then 10-15 years later, the economy suddenly boomed.
Ming
- After the earthquakes and tidal waves,
they won't be the same human beings.
- They'll be more tractable. Easier
for you to rule, in the name of Ming.
Flat screens hooked up to two way digital communications networks.
The department of homeland security watching us for our protection. or to keep those in power in power?
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