Huxlian "Brave New World" - Brain-Chipped Population, Computer Interfacing - Silicon Chips, Human Brain Tissue - Matrix Reality, Video Games. Country Living, Silence - City Folks, Vacations, Need for Constant Noise - Psychological Studies - Eskimo, Inuit - Environment Alteration, Behaviour Modification. Ride Programs, MADD - Guns, Police and Tickets, Highwaymen and Theft - Trained Obedience, Perception Distortion - Jacques Ellul, Law Dramas, Propaganda. Prison Industry - C. G. Darwin, "More Sophisticated Form of Slavery" - Eviction, Home "Ownership", Building Codes. Hollywood, Culture Creation - Tavistock Institute, BBC Radio. Overseas Slaughter, Mercenaries and Mercury (Patron Saint) - Military, Economy, Monetary System, Peasants - Ancient International Commerce, Phoenicians, Hired Armies. Tacitus, Roman History, Roman Army Recruitment, Empire Creation - Communal Tribal Living, Customs, Laws - Militia - Fear of Death - Afterlife Belief. Decadent Rome, Bread and Circuses, Taxation - Violent "Entertainment". Knowledge in Archives - Public Libraries - Pre-1920 History Books. New Age Movement, Edgar Cayce, Sphinx - Fortune Tellers, Card Sharks, Invisible Powers, "Insurance" Policies. Hell, Nordic Word for Earth, Hella - Gehenna, Garbage Dump. *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 6, 2007 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

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