In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, folks take a government-issued pill whenever they feel less than 100% happy, to keep them in line.
In Albo’s Brave New Australia, he has inverted this paradigm to provide a fiscal incentive to feel sick so that folks can tap a similar government-supplied narcotic to feel better.
I refer, of course, to Ritalin, or methylphenidate, otherwise known to drug dealers as “speed”, “goey”, “whiz”, “uppers”, “ice”, “glass” or “base”.
