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cmdr_zoomI've been meaning to post this since last weekend, when I happened to catch the movie version of Brave New World (1993) on Sci-Fi. Right in the middle of it was a commercial for Zoloft.
I know that there are people (including one of my co-workers) who honestly need meds like this to function. But the juxtaposition of the shallow, consumerist, feel-good platitude-mouthing, drug- and media-saturated society of the movie with an example of the "real thing" made me (nervously) laugh out loud. The only coincidence that might have topped it would be a Ford commercial right after; alas, there wasn't (and the movie conspicuously avoids any mention of that bit of Huxley's novel).
I know that there are people (including one of my co-workers) who honestly need meds like this to function. But the juxtaposition of the shallow, consumerist, feel-good platitude-mouthing, drug- and media-saturated society of the movie with an example of the "real thing" made me (nervously) laugh out loud. The only coincidence that might have topped it would be a Ford commercial right after; alas, there wasn't (and the movie conspicuously avoids any mention of that bit of Huxley's novel).
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Date: 2003-01-24 08:43 am (UTC)