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The Book Club: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley with Sen. Ted Cruz

The Book Club

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The Soma Drug - The Best of Christianity and Alcohol Without the Side Effects

Soma is a fictional drug, as Huxley calls it, the best of Christianity and alcohol without the side effects. It's meant to put people in stupor and the workers they're paid in grams of some of these pills that put you into this narcotic state with no side effects. You don't have hangovers, you don't have bad trips, you're just anesthetized. When I look at our society, the triviality of much of our society,. Actually, when I look at soma, I don't even think of an actual drug. That's an element of it, substance abuse and alcohol abuse. The real soma is people not focused

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