Re: <documenta X><blast> fields
Morgan Garwood (mgarwood@inch.com)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:36:19 -0400
times of rapid (read: disorienting) change, depending on the actualities at
play, seem to activate a psychology of eith impending doom or impending
millenium. HumanNature(tm) at work before your very eyes. Historians in two
hundred years time will probably refer to our period as The Great
Homogenization, and dutifully note that America had become the greatest
drug culture in human history, and that the majority of the drug
consumption was sanctioned by a combination of govenrmental and
institutional (i.e. insurance companies, pharm. manufacturers) interests.
We are , naturally, discussing the Prozac family of molecules, the long
term societal consequences of which we are only feeling the edge of. A
culture of lowered affect (the now famous prozac personality downshift
effect... yooo hooo... anybody in there???), lowered libido (uh, you want
to come over and... watch teevee?), hightened rationality (of a cool sort),
more get-with-the-program and don't ask too many questions,
and concomitantly, far less introspection (what, me worry?)