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"In the Brave New World the soma habit was not a private vice; it was a political institution, it was the very essence of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. But this most precious of the subjects' inalienable privileges was at the same time one of the most powerful instruments of rule in the dictator's armory. The systematic drugging of individuals for the benefit of the State (and incidentally, of course, for their own delight) was a main plank in the policy of the World Controllers. The daily soma ration was an insurance against personal maladjustment, social unrest and the spread of subversive ideas. Religion, Karl marx declared, is the opium of the people. In the Brave New World this situation was reversed. Opium, or rather soma, was the people's religion." (Brave New World Revisited, Chapter VIII, Chemical Persuasion, Aldous Huxley)
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