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Handwringing story of the day 1: Our nation is pill-popping
Handwringing story of the day 2: Tobacco firms use ‘stalling’ strategy
Human beings live in a difficult and uncertain world. And try to make the best of it. So if you eliminate one stress releiver something else is needed to fill the vacuum or the cork bursts.
Politicians are pissing into the wind as they try and remake mankind into their own idealized image of what mankind should be which is compliant serfs, easily controlled to serve the ruling class (themselves)