“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction. It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” ― Theodore Kaczynski
Ok, so blowing people up is bad, and we certainly don’t endorse that or any other form of violence, nor are we Unabomber superfans or anything of the sort. With that said, if you can expand your mind and get past the fact that he was a terrorist in his later life, a lot of Kaczynski’s writing is interesting, if not rather insightful. This take on society drugging people to allow them to exist in society really hits the nail on the head.
