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Re: [Morley St] Re: Beware of Alkohol (you have been warned)
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Apr 28, 11:48 +1000
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From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Apr 28, 11:48 +1000
Geoff wrote:
Another aspect of 1984 that has proved to be uncannily accurate is that the 'plebs' were kept in a perpetual stupor by government supplied dope called 'soma', if I remember rightly (read it a long time ago - perhaps in Morley Street days).
Just as prisons these days, whose populations are overwhelmingly dominated by people serving time for drug-related offences, are kept relatively calm by a widespread tolerance of the use of the same substances that landed these folk in the clink to begin with!
I can see why you posted this file, Charlie. The resemblance to some
Morley Streeters
is downright uncanny, isn't it?
Another aspect of 1984 that has proved to be uncannily accurate is that the 'plebs' were kept in a perpetual stupor by government supplied dope called 'soma', if I remember rightly (read it a long time ago - perhaps in Morley Street days).
Just as prisons these days, whose populations are overwhelmingly dominated by people serving time for drug-related offences, are kept relatively calm by a widespread tolerance of the use of the same substances that landed these folk in the clink to begin with!
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